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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755 Excerpt: ...great Abyls, and gives the full Reins to Imagination, it i ' will l only say, that all Men have it, and may exert it, or rather permit it to exert itself if they please. It is supposed that the Power so claimed is Jesus Christ operating within us; and as it is allowed by all that the least Drop of his natural Blood was enough to atone for the Sins of the whole World; so one might imagine that the least Portion of his Godhead, working within us, might be too hard for and overcome the Depravity transmitted to us by our first Parents, or at least be able to engage our Attention or Acquiescence, which is all that is supposed requisite to the farther Progress and Eflhsion of his Deity. It is very hard to conceive, that we can serve God by sequestering for a Time all the Faculties which he has given us; by sending our Wits out of Doors, to make Room for Grace, and by believing that the Spirit of God will never exert it self but in an empty Head; and therefore Ishall presume to believe, till I am better informed, that as the Almighty shews and exhibits to us the visible World by the Medium of the outward Senses, which he had before given us, so he dispenses all that we do know or can know of the invisible One, through the Vehicles of our reasoning Faculties. We have not yet been able thoroughly to discover any Vacuum in Nature, but as soon as anv Body gets out of a Place, another leaps in; if therefore a Man can once drive his Wits out of House and Home, some other Being of a different Kind will certainly get into their Room, and Wind is always at Hand crowding for Preferment; which, in various Shapes, has a great Share in human Transacftions, and always has coniributed G 6 muc 1 much to the great Revolutions in Empire and Superstition, such as have often overturn...