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has become very common
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and complains very much, as Butler did sixty years later, of the spirit of
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Raillery and Buffoonery in which the matter was too commonly approached. The
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Letter shows that a multitude of the inconsistencies and other blemishes of the Old Testament were being keenly discussed; and it cannot be said that the Bishop's vindication was well calculated to check the tendency. Indeed, we have the angry and reiterated declaration of Archdeacon Parker, writing in 1681, that
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; that
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Atheism and Irreligion are at length become as common as Vice and Debauchery ; and that
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Plebeans and Mechanicks have philosophized themselves into Principles of Impiety, and read their Lectures of Atheism in the Streets and Highways. And they are able to demonstrate out of the Leviathan that there is no God nor Providence, and so on. [416] As the Archdeacon's method of refutation consists mainly in abuse, he doubtless had the usual measure of success. A similar order of dialectic is employed by Dr. Sherlock in his Practical Discourse of Religious Assemblies (1681). The opening section is addressed to the
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here described as receding from the principles of their
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who,
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Such atheists, the reverend writer notes, when it is urged on them that all mankind worship
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reply that such an argument is as good for polytheism and idolatry as for monotheism; so, after formally inviting them to
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and lamenting that he is not dealing with
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he bethinks him that
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and admits that there have been
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To such, accordingly, he suggests that the atheist has already a great advantage in a world morally restrained by religion, where he is under no such restraint, and that,
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men who admit the existence of God, yet never go to church, though
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Their non-attendance
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It is a fulsome and nauseous thing, he breathlessly protests,