DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING, Occafion❜d by The Rife and Growth of a Sect Mundum tradidit hominum difputationi Deus. Eccl. 3:11. Vulg. Nil tam temerarium, tamque indignum fapientis gravitate Deor. l. I. 'Tis a hard Matter for a Government to fettle Wit. Characteristicks, vol. 1. p. 19. LONDON, Printed in the Year M. DCC. XIII. . A LETTER TO ***** Esquire. SIR, A 4 POLOGIES for felf-evident Truths can never have any affect on thofe who have fo little Senfe as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only juft Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be inform'd. Mere ignorant Men, or Men deftitute of thofe Principles of Knowledg, may perhaps be capable of Information: Their Ignorance does not exclude them from affenting to a self-evi dent Truth when they firft hear it, nor from admitting any Confequences deducible from it. But Men who deny what is felfA 2 evident, |