This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1766 Excerpt: ...let me be a man. Log. What a plague it is to have to do with such thick-headed creatures! I must proceed gradually with him? What is God? Don. My sovereign, my judge, my father. Log. That is not what I alk you; what is his nature. Don. To be powersul and good. Log. But whether is he corporeal or spiritual? Don. How ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1766 Excerpt: ...let me be a man. Log. What a plague it is to have to do with such thick-headed creatures! I must proceed gradually with him? What is God? Don. My sovereign, my judge, my father. Log. That is not what I alk you; what is his nature. Don. To be powersul and good. Log. But whether is he corporeal or spiritual? Don. How should 1 know. Log. What! not know what a spirit is! Don. Not I in the least; and what should I be the better for such knowlege? will it mend my morals, make me a better husband, a better father, a better mailer, a better member of society? Log. A man must be absolutely taught what a spirit Is, since it is, it is, it is, well, we will let that alone till another time. Don. I fancy, instead of being able to tell m? what it is, you will rather tell me what it is not. But after so much questioning, may 1 take the freedom to ask you a question? I was formerly in one of your temples, and why do you paint God with a long beard? Log. That is a very abstruse question, and the solution of which would be above your comprehension, without some preliminary instructions. Don. Besore you enter on your instructions, I must tell you a circumstance, which I hope never to forget. I had just built a summer house at the end of my garden; and one day sitting in it I heard a mole and a chafer descanting on it: A superb edifice it certainly is, faid the mole, and of very great parts must that mole have been who built it. A mole forsooth! I fay a mole too! Quoth the chafer; the architect of that pretty building could be no other than some chafer of api extraordinary ge- ntus. This colloquy put me on a resolution never to dispute. GOVERNMENTS, . Which the best? I Never yet knew any man who had not governed some state or other. I do not speak of their High Mightinesse..
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