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The Being and Providence of GOD, and the Certainty of a REWARD for the Righteous, demonstrated upon the Principles of natural Reason.

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SERMON

Preached before the

UNIVERSITY,

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ST. MARY'S in OXFORD,

ON

ACT-SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1739.

Διαφέρει δ' 3 σμικρὸν, ἀμως γέ πως πιθανότητα τινὰ τες λόγες ἡμῶν ἔχειν, ὡς θεόντ ̓ ἐἰσὶ καὶ ἀγαθὸν, δίκην τιμῶντες διαφερόντως ἀνθρώπων.

PLATO de legibus, 1. 10.

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SERMON I.

PSA L. lviii. 11.

So that a Man fhall say, Verily there is a Keward for the Righteous; verilp he is a GOD, that judgeth the Earth *

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HE vifible Disorder and Irregularity, appear in the Distribution of the good and evil Things belonging to this Life, led some of the † Philofophers of the Heathen World to doubt whether there were a GOD; and if there was, whether he had the Care and Direction of human Affairs. They thought, that the Cries

* The Original is otherwife rendered in the CommonPrayer Tranflation: So that a Man fhall fay, Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous; doubtless there is a GOD that judgeth the Earth.

+ Sunt enim Philofophi, & fuerunt, qui omnino nullam habere conferent Rerum humanarum Procurationem Deos. TUL. de nat. Deor.

Κακῶν δὲ ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἀδίκων τύχαι ἰδίᾳ καὶ δημοσίᾳ, ἀληθείᾳ μὲν εὐκ ἐυδαίμονες, δόξαν δὲ εὐδαιμονιζόμεναι σφόδρα ἀλλ ̓ ἐκ ἐμμελῶς, ἀγεσί σε πεὺς ἀσέβειαν, &c. PLATO de legibus, 1. 10.

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