Excerpt from A Second Address to the Inhabitants of the Two Great Cities of London and Westminster: Occasion'd by a Second Pastoral Letter, With Remarks on Scripture Vindicated, and Some Other Late Writings Tm: Words in the Addrefs, to which this Writer feems to refer, relate to thole who liv'd before the Coming of Chriit, and are; is If we are religious as we are rational, the endeavouring to exalt Re velation by deprefling Reafon, is fubverting the Foundation, in order to taife the Superl'trueiure And if Reafon was the only Guide God gave Mankind for many Ages together, to lead them to eternal as well as temporal Happinefs, is not this Writer's faying, I That Reafon, without the Afifiance of Revelation, has in Fat? Appear'd to he a very infuficient Guide, a'rraigni the Conduet of God; in fuppofing that tho' nleleans and Ends were alike in his power, yet that he, not knowing how to adjul'c one to the other, ordain'd fuch Means as cou'd not anfwer the End for which he intended them? Or in his Words, That the Guide he gave them was in Fati, avery in/itficient Guide and that all Mankind, except the j'ews (to whom {i God gave Statutes that were not good, and 7udgniettl: wherehy they jhoula' not live) were, till the Coming of Chrifi, under the Condue't of this very infuffi: cient Guide 5 and that the greater Part ever fince (tho' God has chang'd his Mind as to fome) have had no other Guide than this very infufhcient one. Is this the Charaeter of 9. Being of confummate 9' Wifdom, and of impartial and univerfal Bener 9 volence? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.