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Let truth and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse
in a free and open encounter?-Milton.

London:

PUBLISHED FOR JAMES WATSON,

BY

HOLYOAKE AND CO., 147, FLEET STREET.

1855.

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INDEX.

PROPRIETY of free inquiry. Who free inquirers are. Importance of the
subjects of the divine existence, and the authenticity of the Bible; and hence
the peculiar propriety of their discussion. Statement of the first question.
The atheist's first and principal objection. Investigation thereof. It proves
to be an evidence of the divine existence.

Sincere sceptics and insincere ones. Unreasonableness of neither believing
nor disbelieving on such a subject as that of the existence of God. The sub-
ject under discussion, not whether we can know there is a God, but whether
there is reason to believe in one. Omnipotence consists in physical, not in
moral, power. How sceptics ought to examine religious subjects. Why
God requires us to know and glorify him. Man not blameless for wrong
actions, notwithstanding the power, knowledge, &c., of God. Proofs of
God's existence. Why we should concern ourselves in relation thereto.

LETTER IV.-PAGE 26.

The ordinary cause of scepticism. The reasoning of Socrates touching
the difficulties of nature. Experience not explainable to the inexperienced.
Design itself invisible, and its existence proved only by the external mani-
festations thereof. These manifestations infallible proofs or no proofs at
all.
If infallible, they prove a designer of the universe, as much as a de-
signer of a work of art. Not necessary to see an agent, in order to prove a
design, inasmuch as the proof lies in the work itself. Seeing him would

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