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Excerpt from The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Vol. 8 of 8 To cry out so loudly against the evil, that happens sometimes to good men. They assert, that the law of grace is tnuch'more perfect than the law of nature, and that revelation inspires much more sublime notions of the Deity, and of piety toward him, than reason. But how has it come to pass than, 'that heathen theists defended the divine Prostidence against atheists who attacked it, and recommended a cheerful resignation to all the dispensations of it; whereas christian divines have made a. Common cause with atheists to attack this Providence, and to murmur against the necessary submission that they pay? Admirable precepts and illustrious examples of the first kind may be quoted from paganism. I will mention the first that occurs to me. Seneca, who pleaded the cause of God against atheists, as I plead it actu ally against the divines, heard the philosopher Demetrius break out in his sufferings into this rap turous expression: Immortal gods, I have but one complaint to make: why was your will no. 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.

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