INADMISSIBLE OR INCONCLUSIVE.
1. "The question of the existence of a Deity is important."
2. "A Theist has a higher sense of personal dignity than an atheist."
3. "The conduct of an atheist must give concern to those who are not
so."
4. "An atheist believes himself to be, at his death, for ever excluded from returning life."
5. "There are more atheists than unbelievers in revelation."
6. "Men of letters may have the same bias to incredulity as others to credulity, because they are subject to a wrong association of ideas, as well as other persons though in a less degree."
7. "Whoever first made a thing, for example a chair or a table, must have had an adequate idea of it's nature and use."
8. "If a table had a designing cause, the tree from whence the wood came, and the man who made the table must have had a designing cause, which comprehended all the powers and properties of trees and men."
9. "All the visible universe, as far as we can judge, bears the marks of being one work, and therefore must have had a cause of infinite power and intelligence."
10. "We might as well say a table had no cause, as that the world had none."
11. "A Being originally and necessarily capable of comprehending itself, it is not improper to call infinite, for we can have no idea of any bounds to it's knowledge or power."
12. "A series of finite causes cannot possibly be carried back ad infinitum."
13. "Our imagination revolts at the idea of an intellectual soul of the universe, that is, of an intelligence resulting from arrangement."
14. "The actual existence of the universe compels us to come at last to an originally existent and intellectual Being, because if the immediate maker of the universe has not existed from all eternity, he must have derived his being and senses from one who has, and that being we call God."
15. "God must be present to all his works, if we admit no power can act but where it is, he must therefore exist every where, because his works are every where."
16. "As no being can unmake or materially change himself (at least none can annihilate himself) so God is unchangeable, for no Being God made can change him and no other Being can exist but what God made."
17. "Two infinite intelligent beings of the same kind would coincide, therefore there can only be one God."
18. "Nothing can be more evident, than that plants and animals could not have proceeded from each other from all eternity."
19. "That happiness is the design of the creation because health is designed and sickness is only an exception, not a general rule is as evident as that the design of the Mill-wright must have been, that his machine should not be obstructed."
20. "As a state of sickness is comparatively rare with a state of health, happiness the result of health, and the end of the creation happiness, so the end of the creation is already in a great measure answered."
21. "Pleasure tends to continue and propagate itself, pain to check and exterminate itself."
22. "As our knowledge and power in respect to shunning pains and procuring pleasures advance with our experience, nothing is wanting to enable us to exterminate all pains, but a continuance of being.
23. "Our enjoyments continually increase in real value from infancy to old age."
24. "A future moral distribution is probable, because God is infinitely powerful and wise."
25. "Since reverence, gratitude, obedience, confidence are duties to men, so they are to God; and as we pray to men, so we should pray to God."
26. "Prescience, predetermination and infinite benevolence are no argument against prayer to the Deity."
27. "A wish produced by nature is evidence of the thing wished for, but a future state is wished for, therefore there is evidence of a future state."
28. "As we have no idea how we came originally to be produced, for what we know to the contrary our reproduction may be as much the course of nature as our original production.."
29. "A gloom and melancholy belong more to atheists than to devout people."