Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The MORAL. Prefumption leades People to Infidelity in a Trice, and so by Insensible Degrees to Atheism: for when Men have once cast off a Reverence for Religion, they are come within One Step of Laughing at it. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ This Points at the Folly and Wickedness of Those Men that think to play Fast and Loose with God Almighty, who sees the very Thoughts of our Hearts. This way of Fooling in Holy Things is much a Bolder sort of Impicty, then it is commonly Taken for. He that pretends to Doubt of an All-knowing Power, has as much Right to Doubt of an Allmighty Power too, and the bringing of One Attribute in Question, Opens the Way to a Diffidence of all the Rest. ”
