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Excerpt from Animadversions Upon Mr. Tho, Chubb's Discourse on Miracles: Considered as Evidences to Prove the Divine Original of a Revelation Have' with care attended to your Difeonrje on Mraeles, and as far as I know myfelf, have animadverted upon your twat/edit, with that impartial regard to Truth, which becomes a of it. - You gbave well obferved, that contro ner/ies in matters of religion, when managed with that fairne/e and good bunionr as they ought, have this advantage arifing from them, that they occafion for men's reafoning faculties to be exor cifed with much more care and attention than otherwife they would be. Which fairne/i and good bamaur m controverfy, greatly tends to check and reftrain the growth of bigotry and fuperfii tion, which through men's inattention are apt to prevail 1n the world. I likewife agree with you, in thinking, that the points controverted, are like Wife very often fet m a much clearer light by this means, and the way to truth rendered more eafy, by a removal of thofe dzfieulties and objefiions which are' bars to men's receiving it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.