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To the Reader.
Philoſophy, is an endevoring to underſtand the chief Good, as the Fountain of all Good: Now how can we come neer to, or finde out the Fountain, but by making uſe of the Streams as a conduct to it? The operations of Nature, are Streams running from the Fountain of Good, which is God. I am not of the ignorant, and fooliſh opinion of thoſe that ſay, The greateſt Philoſophers, are the greatest Atheiſts; as if to know the Works of God, and to underſtand his goings forth in the Way of Nature, must neceſsitate a man to deny God. The[1] Scripture diſapproves of this as a ſottish
