CHRISTIANITY DEMONSTRATED, BY Infallible Proor from Four Ruues Which are incompatible to any Impofture that can poffibly be. In a LETTER to a Friend. By a Lover of TruTn. Magna eft Veritas, &F Prevalebit. LONDON: Printed in the Year Mocctv. jae fF ciseSIR, I. N anfwer to yours of the third inftant, I much condole with your unhappy Circumftances of being placed amongft fuch Company, where, as you fay, you continually hear the Sacred Scriptures, and the Hiftories therein contained, particularly of Mofes and of Chrif, and all revealed Religion, turned into Ridicule, by Men who fet up for Senfe and Rea/on. And they fay, That there is no greater Ground to be- lieve in Chrift, than in Mahomet: That all thefe Pre- tences to Revelation are Cheats, and ever have been, among Pagans, Fews, Mabometans, and Chriftians: That they are all alike Impofitions of cusning and de-’ Signing Men, upon the Credulity, at firft, of “Pople and unthinking People; till, their Numbers increafing, their Delufions grew popular, came at laft to be eftablifh’d by Laws; and then the Force of Education and Cu/lon ives a Bias to the Judgments of After-Ages, till fuch jeceits come really to be believ’d, being receiv'd upon Truft from the Ages foregoing, without examining into the Original and Bottom of them: Which thefe our mo- dern Men of Senfe (as they defire to be efteem'd) fay, that they only do; that they only have their Fudg- ments freed from the flavifh Authority of Precedents and Laws in Matters of Truth, which, they fay, ought only to be decided by Reafon: Tho’, by a prudent Compliance with Popularity and Laws, they preferve themfelves from Outrage and legal Penalties; for none of their Complexion are addicted to Sufferings or Mar- tyrdom, Now, Sir, that which you defire from me, is fome fhort Topic of Rea/on, if fuch can be found, whereby, without running to Authorities, and the intricate Mazes of Learning, which breed long Difputes, and which thefe Men of Rea/on deny by wholefale, tho’ they can give no Rea/on for it, only foppote that Authors have . 2 ecn