“Above all, the moral capacity of mankind, which is a most important part of their constitution, tending to the highest perfection of their nature, and the principal bond of regular society among them, as it proceeds from a wise intending Cause, shews unity of wisdom in the Cause; and the government over the moral, as well as the natural, world evidently appears to be a monarchy.”
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[67]. See Arist. Metaphys. Lib. I. Cap. 2. & Lib. XII. Cap. 7.
[68]. Vid. ejus. Mag. Moral. Lib. II. Cap. 15.
[69]. Vid. ejus. De Moribus, Lib. IX. Cap. 4. & De Mundo, Cap. 6.
[70]. Vid. Mornæi de Verit. Relig. Christ. cap. 3.
[71]. Epist. XIII. ad Dionys.
[72]. See Cicero de Natura Deorum.
[73]. See Tertull. Apol. Lactant. de falsa Relig. Arnob. contra Gentes; Minut. Fel. Herodian. Hist. Lib. IV. See also Mede’s apostasy of the latter times, chap. 3, 4.
[74]. Quest. cv.