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Jan 24, 2008, 2:26:27 PM1/24/08
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you faith. I cannot do
so, nor therefore test the truth of what you say. But you can well renounce
pleasure and test whether what I say is true.

241. Order.--I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding
that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in
believing it true.

SECTION IV: OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF

242. Preface to the second part.--To speak of those who have treated of this
matter.

I admire the boldness with which these persons undertake to speak of God. In
addressing their argument to infidels, their first chapter is to prove
Divinity from the works of nature. I should not be astonished at their
enterprise, if they were addressing their argument to the faithful; for it
is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once
that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore.
But for those in whom this light is extinguished, and in whom we purpose to
rekindle it, persons destitute of faith and grace, who, seeking with all
their light whatever they see in nature that can bring them to this
knowledge, find only obscurity and darkness; to tell them that they have
only to look at the smallest things which surround them, and they will see
God openly, to give them, as a complete proof of this great and important
matter, the course of the moon and planets, and to claim to have concluded
the proof with such an argument, is to give them ground for believing that
the proofs of our religion are very weak. And I see by reason and experience
that nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt.

It is not after this manner that Scripture speaks, which has a better
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