which one could not think possible, if he did not hourly see them. And if Men of liberal Education and accute Reason, that know their Duty and their danger, are driven by their Appetites, with their Eyes open, upon the most fatal Rocks, and make all the haste they can from their God and their Happiness; if such can barter their Souls for trifles, and sell everlastingness for a Moment; sport upon the brink of a Precipice, and contemn all the terrors of the future dreadfull Day; Why should it then be incredible, that a brutish, vile Person, sotted with Ignorance and drunk with Malice, mindless of God, and unconcern'd about a future Being, should be persuaded to accept of present, delightful Gratifications, without duly weighing the desperate condition?
Thus, I suppose, I have answered also the Argument of this great Man, against the Covenants of Witches; and since a Person of such sagacity and learning, hath no more to say against what I defend, and another of the same Character, the ingenious Mr. S. Parker, who directed me to him, reckons these the strongest things that can be Objected in the Case, I begin to arrive to an higher degree of confidence in this Belief; and am almost inclined to fancy that there is little more to be said to purpose, which may not by the improvement of my CONSIDERATIONS be easily answered; and I am yet the more fortified in my conceit, because I have since the former Edition of this Book, sent to several accute and ingenious Persons of my acquaintance, to beg their Objections, or those they have heard from others, against my Discourse or Relations, that I might consider them in this: But I can procure none save only those few I have now discuss'd, most of my Friends telling me, that they have not met with any that need, or deserve my notice.
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