The vanity of this mortal life, or, Of man, considered only in his present…

And if they acknowledge none at all, and this be the fundamental Article of their Creed, That there is indeed none; Then can no man charge them with any thought more grossly foolish than their own, nor can they devise to say any thing, by which more certainly to argue themselves bereaved of the common understanding of men. For who that is not so, if he only take notice of his own being, may not as certainly conclude the existence of a God, as that two and two make four? Or what imagination can be too absurd to have place in that mind that can imagine this Creation to be a casualty? He would be thought besides himself that should say the same of the composition of a Clock, or a Watch, though it were a thousand times more supposable. But if they do not justify themselves, to what purpose is it further to press them with absurdities, that persist in constant self-contradiction? or that have not so much left them of rational ⟨p. 88⟩sensation, as to feel in their own minds the pressure of the very greatest absurdity?

And if they acknowledg none at all, and this be the fundamental Article of their Creed, That there is indeed none; Then can no man charge them with any thought more grosly foolish than their own, nor can they devise to say any thing, by which more certainly to argue themselves berest of the common understanding of men. For who that is not so, if he only take notice of his own being, may not as certainly conclude the existence of a God, as that two and two make four? Or what imagination can be too absurd to have place in that mind that can imagine this Creation to be a casualty? He would be thought besides himself that should say the same of the composition of a Clock, or a Watch, though it were a thousand times more supposable. But if they do not justifie themselves, to what purpose is it further to press them with absurdities, that persist in constant self-contradiction? or that have not so much left them of rational ⟨p. 88⟩sensation, as to feel in their own minds the pressure of the very greatest absurdity?