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Or is there some ancient vendetta against Paley? Does some secret society of Deists still assassinate any one who adopts the name? I cannot conjecture further about this true tale of mystery; and that for two reasons. First, the story is so true that I have had to put a lie into it. Every word of this narrative is veracious, except the one word Paley.
Whole libraries of theologic dogma would be dearly purchased by Hume's profound remark 'if everything must have a cause, it follows that upon the exclusion of other causes we must accept of the object itself or of nothing as causes. If the God of our Deists and Christians is not matter, what is He? Upon them devolves the difficult duty of answering that question.
"They are pure deists; they talk about the Bible, because they do not wish to shock too severely public opinion, which is prevailingly Christian. They have a service on Sundays; I have been there. At it they read verses from Dryden or other English poets on the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. They deliver a discourse on some point of morality, and all is said."
Upon these two topics the objections seemed to turn, which were with most assurance made by Deists not against Christianity, but against Christianity misunderstood.
The deists contended that this was a sufficient basis for morality and that the Christian inducements to good behaviour were unnecessary.
He finished his university course and afterwards became a tutor to the sons of a baron. Now he is a Missionary in the East Indies. April 24. Left Berlin last evening for Magdeburg, Had a long conversation with two deists in the mail. God helped me to make a full confession of His dear Son, in answer to prayer for grace to be enabled to do so.
Why should anyone desire to transform the world into a murderous pandemonium because of the arrival of the Prince of Peace? Truth to tell, Christmas has become a secular holiday rather than a day for religious rejoicing, and Deists, Atheists and Agnostics take as much interest in its observation as do those who believe in the divinity of the Babe of Bethlehem.
Your Uncle Lawrence has been to hear a preacher from Boston, by the name of Channing, and is very much pleased. Have you ever heard him? It seems he is very famous in his own sect, who are infidels, or deists, or pollywogs, or atheists I don't know which it is. I believe they preach mere morality, and read essays instead of sermons.
"I see," she said one day, on entering the theological library, where Jessie, having laid down a worsted cuff which she had been knitting, was deep in Leslie's Short and Easy method with the Deists, and Kate, having dropped a worsted comforter, had lost herself in Chalmers's Astronomical Discourses. "I see you are both busy, so I won't disturb you.
It is hardly necessary to speak here of the attitude towards the old "supernatural" religion taken by the English Deists of the last half of the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century.
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