re been sufficient in
(32) it is certain that no such a sense as to render
revelation would have been given, revelation needless or useless, no
(32) had the light of Nature been revelation would ever have been
sufficient in such a sense as to given. But let any man consider
render (5) _one_ not[35] wanting, the spiritual darkness that once
or useless. But no (15 _b_) man in (41) prevailed in the heathen
seriousness and simplicity can world before revelation, and that
possibly think _it_ (5) _so_, who (41) still prevails in those
considers the state of religion in regions that have not yet received
the heathen world before the light of revealed truth; above
revelation, and _its_ (5) present all, let him mark not merely the
state in those (11) _places_ (8) natural inattention and ignorance
_which_ have borrowed no light of the masses, but also the
from (5) it; particularly (19) the doubtful language held even by a
doubtfulness of some of the (12) Socrates on even so vital a
greatest men concerning _things of subject as[36] the immortality of
the utmost_ (11) _importance_, as the soul; and then can he in
well as the (15 _a_) _natural seriousness and sincerity maintain
inattention and ignorance of that the light of Nature is
mankind in general_. It is (34) sufficient?
impossible to say (12) who would
have been able to have reasoned It is of course impossible to deny
out that whole system which we that some second[36] Aristotle
call natural religion, (30) in its might have reasoned out, in its
genuine simplicity, clear of genuine simplicity and without
superstition; but there is a touch of superstition, the
certainly no ground to affirm whole of that system which we
that the generality could. call natural religion. But there
(44) If they could, there is is certainly no ground for
no sort of probability that affirming that this complicated
they would. (44) Admitting there process would have been possible
were, they would highly want a for ordinary men. Even if they had
standing admonition to remind them had the power, there is no
of (5) _it_, and inculcate it upon probability that they would have
them. And further still, were (5) had the inclination; and, even if
_they_ as much _disposed_ (47 _a_) we admit the probabl