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Mr. Weftcot.

Mr. Weftlake of Exon.

Mr. Martin White,

Mr. Thomas White,

Mr. Wigmore of Farnham.

Mr. John Wilcocks.

Mr. Charles Williams.

Mr. Williams.

Mr. William Williams.

Mr. Robert Wills of Totnefe,

Mr. Wilshman.

Mr. Lewis Wolcomb.

Mr. Wrey, Rector of Tauftock,
Stephen Wefton, Efq; of Exon.
Mr. Waldron.

Charles Webber of Exon.
Richard Weft of Chichefter.
Westlake,

Mark Weftern, Ufculm.

Mrs. Whiting of Exon.

Mr. Benjamin Wills.

Mrs. Mary Wood.

Mr. Woolcott of Sidbury, 2 Books,

Simon Worth..

Reginald Worth,

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SERMON I

PSALM Civ. 24.

O Lord, how manifold are thy Works! in Wifdom haft thou made them all.

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felf-evident demonftrative Truth,

that to endeavour to prove it would be as needlefs an Undertaking, as that of a certain Philosopher, who fought out Arguments to prove his own Existence. It is the Foundation of all Truth ; the great Hinge on which Religion turns; and upon the Certainty of it all moral Obligations depend, as likewise the univerfal Law of Nature, and the eternal and neceffary Diffe rences and Relations of Things. For God is the Original of all Things, without a Suppofition of whofe Being there is not any Thing

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SERM. Thing whatsoever that can poffibly be accounted for; for if we could fuppofe God not to be, we could never suppose the Poffibility of any thing else. And yet, notwithstanding this, there are many obdurate Men, who have abandon'd Virtue, and are become Slaves to Vice; who are Chriftians in Profeffion, and Atheists in Practice; whose Intereft and Advantage it is, that there should be no God, nor Judge of hu man Actions; that would willingly cheat themselves into a Denial of this Truth, if they could do it with any tolerable Decency. Tho' 'tis very ftrange, how any one, who is endued with Reason, and has Eyes to look abroad into the World, to fee the Hand of God in all his Works, and trace the Footsteps of Providence, can doubt of the Existence of that Being, whom Nature proclaims in all her Works; for the invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly feen, being understood by the Things that are made, even his eternal Power and Godhead; fo that they, if any fuch there are, who actually doubt of it, are without Excufe. These things tranfcend the Bounds of any finite Capacity, and muft of neceffity be swallow'd up in Wonder and Admiration; for tho' the holy Pfal

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