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Strength and Beauty in all the Parts of it. However, such as it is, I hope it may prove of considerable use and benefit to the World, and not altogether unworthy of its Author.
The Design of it is Three-fold.
First, To establish the great Principles of Religion, the Being of God, and a Future State; by shewing how firm and solid a Foundation they have in the Nature and Reason of Mankind: A work never more necessary than in this degenerate Age, which hath been so miserably over-run with Scepticism and Infidelity.
Secondly, To convince men of the natural and indispensable obligation of Moral Duties; those I mean, which are comprehended by our Saviour under the two general Heads of the Love of God
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