Excerpt from Three Physico-Theological Discourses: Concerning, I. The Primitive Chaos, and Creation of the World; II. The General Deluge, Its Causes and Effects; III. The Dissolution of the World, and Future Conflagration The Fourth, That there lhall be a fu3 ture State, wherein Men {hall be punilhed or rewarded accordingly, as they have done ill or well in this Life, and that State Eter nal: Tho' the Pir Part may be demon firated from the Jufiice and Goodnefs of Gon, ' becaufe there being an unequal Diftribution of Good and Evil in this Life, there muft be a Time to fet things (freight in another World 5 yet it being {0 difficult to Humane Reafon, to reconcile the Eternity of Puniih ments with the Juf'tice and Goodnefs of Go I), this Second Part of the Tradition had need be well back'd by Divine Authority, to make it credible and current among Men. As for the Lafi, tho' I meddle not with it in this Treatife, yet I will take Leave to fay [0 much concerning it, that, i think, ' thofe who held Sacrificing to have been a politive Command of god, and to have had its Original from Divine Infiitution, have the better Reafon on their fide. For' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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