and the discourses of all wise men; that it did no miracles, and made false prophecies; in short, that in the person that founded it, in the article it persuades, in the manner of prevailing, in the reward it offers, it is unholy and foolish and rude: it must needs appear to be void of all pretence; and that no man of reason can ever be fairly persuaded by arguments, that it is the daughter of God, and came down from heaven.

CONCLUSION.

SINCE therefore there is so nothing to be said for any other religion, and so very much for Christianity, every one of whose pretences can be proved, as well as the things themselves do require, and as all the world expects such things should be proved; it follows, that the holy Jesus is the Son of God; that his religion is commanded by God, and is that way by which he will be worshipped and honoured; and that "there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved, but only the name of the Lord Jesus."

X

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SHORT AND EASY METHOD

WITH

THE DEISTS.

WHEREIN

THE CERTAINTY

OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS DEMONSTRATED BY INFALLIBLE PROOF: FROM FOUR RULES, WHICH ARE INCOMPATIBLE TO ANY IMPOSTURE THAT EVER YET HAS BEEN,

OR THAT CAN POSSIBLY BE.

IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND.

BY THE REV. CHARLES LESLIE, M.A.

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SHORT AND EASY METHOD

WITH

THE DEISTS.

SIR,

I. In answer to yours of the third instant, I much condole with you your unhappy circumstances of being placed amongst such company, where, as you say, you continually hear the sacred Scriptures, and the histories therein contained, particularly of Moses and of Christ, and all revealed religion, turned into ridicule by men who set up for sense and reason. And they say, that there is no greater ground to believe in Christ, than in Mahomet: that all these pretences to revelation are cheats, and ever have been among Pagans, Jews, Mahometans, and Christians that they are all alike impositions of cunning and designing men, upon the credulity, at first, of simple and unthinking people; till, their