Reasonable religion. Or, The truth of the Christian religion, demonstrated. The wisdom of its…

First; When a man comes to himself and his Death, he pronounces nothing to be so Reasonable, as for a man to be Religious. A Dying man, will no• only […] with him, in Numb. 23.10▪ […] the Death of the Righteous ▪ But he will also say, I have been […] Fool▪ that I have not Lived the Life of the Righteous! That Great Scholar▪ and Great States-man, Grotius, when he •rew near his Death, professed▪ He would gladly now give all hi• Learning and Honour, for the Religion of a certain poor Mechanic in his Neighbourhood, that spent some Hours every day, in his Devotions▪ and he Cried out, I wish all the world saw so much Reason in Religion as I do ▪ and being asked the best Counsel that a man of his Great Attainments could give, he only said, Be Serious. Truly There is no Scoffing at Religion, ordinarily in the mouth of a Dying […] ⟨p. 35⟩Death will make a man Serious: They […] once Laughed at Serious Religion, […] they come to Die, they don't […] indeed, no, but they G••esh at […] own Folly for doing so: In their […] Day men grow Serious ▪ and with a Deadly Groan they will▪ Oh! that I had been more serious in m• •ife, and more seriously pursued the […] of my life! A Renowned Privy-Counsellor, to several Monarchs▪ in the English Nation, at the end of his Life, gave this as the Result of his […] Experience; Now, says he, I […], that Seriousness is the greatest Wisdom; I find, that a due Temperance […] the best Physic; I find, that a Good conscience is the best Estate. Such, […] such are the Attestations, which men in all Ages have given to the Reasonableness of Religion, in those […] of their lives, when they […] most shown themselves men That Great Emperor, Charles V. one of the Greatest men that ever lived […] face of the Earth, Resigned