Excerpt from Miscellaneous Tracts TO our modern philosophers, who set up the proud idols of their own fancies in opposition to the oracles of the divi nity; and, endeavouring to discover absurdities in 1 the Christian religion, fall into greater, we can; without dis claiming our title to good mann ers, apply what St. P1111 la ap plied to the philosophers of his time they became vain in their imaginations professing themselves to be, wisek they became fools.' In order to sap the foundations of revealed religion and to make man the sport of chance, who neither lost any privilege by Adam's fall, nor gained any thing by Christ's redemption, they endeavour to obtrude Moses on the public as an allegorical writer. Examine his character, and acknowledge their folly. 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.