'when you come to make up the account.vided ydqotolid¶ V > Sir ISAAC NEWTON, univerfally ac* knowledged to be the ableft Philofopher and Mathematician that this, or perhaps any other nation has pro duced, is alfo well known to have * been a firm Believer, and al ferious Chriftian. His difcoveries concern+ ' ing the frame and fyftem of the Universe were applied by him,oras Mr. Boyle's Enquiries into Nature had been, to demonftrates against Atheists of all kinds, the being of ra God, and to illuftrate his power and wisdom in the creation of the 'world.' Of which a better account cannot be given, than in the words of an ingenious perfon, who has beent much converfant in his Philofophip cal Writings; At the end of hist e of eldfoqm 16909£ i es bпA A Mathematical Principles of Natural 'Philofophy, he has given us his thoughts concerning the Deity. ‹ Wherein he first observes, that the 'fimilitude found in all parts of the Universe makes it undoubted, that the whole is governed by one Supreme Being, to whom the original I 'is owing of the frame of nature, 'which evidently is the effect of 'choice and defign. He then pro'ceeds briefly to ftate the best metaphyfical notions concerning God. 'Infhort, we cannot conceive either 'ofwfpacebre time otherwife than as neceffarily exifting, this Being 'therefore, on whom all others de pendy must certainly exift by the 'fame neceffity of nature! Confe-t quently wherever space and time is found, there God muft alfo be. And as it appears impoffible to us, 'that space should be limited, or 1 'that is that time should have had a begin ning, the Deity must be both im"menfe and eternal d agnitiw This great man applied himself with the utmost attention to the study of the Holy Scriptures, and confidered the feveral parts of them with an uncommon exactnefs; par ticularly as to the order of time, and the series of prophecies and events relating to the Meffiah. Upon which head he left behind him an elabo rate Difcourfe, to prove that the famous Prophecy of Daniel's Weeks, which has been fo induftriously perverted by the Deifts of our times, was an exprefs Prophecy of the coming of the Meffiah, and fulfilled in Jefus Chrift. lovЯ to tailed Mr. ADDISON, fo defervedly celebrated for an uncommon accuracy in thinking and reafoning, has gi ven abundant proof of his firm be lief of Christianity, and his zeal against Infidels of all kinds, in the writings that are here published: of which it is certainly known, that algreat parts of them were his own compofitions, 2 vicH !t to buft mol mention not thefe great names, пог the teftimonies they have given of their firm belief of the truth of Christianity, as if the evidences of our Religion were to be finally refolved into human authority, or tried in any other way than by the known and established rules of right reafon: but my defign in mentioning them isso to fbs eat - i -mde To thew the very great affurance of those, who would make the belief of Revelation inconfiftent with the due ufe of our reafon; when they have known fo many eminent inftances in our own time, of the greatest masters of Reafon, not only believing Revelation, but zealoufly concerned to establish and propagate the belief of its yllen bra f 2. The remembrance of this will alfo be a means, on one hand, to hinder well-meaning people from being mifled by the vain boasts of our modern pretenders to Reafon; and, on the other hand, to check the inclination of the wicked and vicious to be misled; when both of them have before their eyes fuch fresh and eminent inftances of found Reafoning and a firm Faith joined together in one and the fame mind. del om 3. Further, as these were perfons generally esteemed for Virtue and Goodness, and, notwithstanding their high attainments,remarkable for their Modesty and Humility; their examples fhew us, that a ftrong and clear Reason naturally deads to the belief of Revelation, when it is not under |