Excerpt from The Knowledge of Divine Things From Revelation, Not From Reason or Nature: Wherein the Origin and Obligation of Religious Truths Are Demonstrated; Arguments of Deists, Moralists, &C. Proved to Have No Foundation in Nature or Reason Another great Prejudice againfl the Orthodoxy of Heathenifm, was the Writings of the primi tive Chril'rians, Men eminent for Learning and Piety, molt of them Pagans by Birth as well as Profefiion, educated in all their Wifdom, and thoroughly acquainted with their Faith and Prac tice: And (0 it happened, thele Fathers reprefented Paganifm as an irrational and detefiable Heap of Iniquity, what had more of Phrenzy than of Piety in it; they charge the World with the utmof't Stu pidity and Idolatry, that they neither knew nor worlhipped the true God, but fuch as were no Gods at all, the wickedefi and the worli of Men; that they transferred divine Honours from the only Supreme Being, to the Images of dead Carcafes, to Natural Things, and the Works of their own Hands that the Gods of the Nations were Devils, and that there could be no Religion among timm, fince their very Gods were the Patrons of all Im purity and Impiety: And to intolerably bold were thele old Gentlemen, as to challenge their Enemies to publick Difputes on thefe very Points; to enter their Appeals to the Emperors, Senate, and People; to difperfe their Apologies, and triumph in their Vietories yet were never upbraided with reprefent ing Heathenifm in a falfe Light, or oppoling fuch Doetrines as the World did not believe and praeiife. 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.