I. THAT every _finite Being_ must needs proceed from _something_ else, limiting it in that _Finiteness_, in which its _Nature_ conflicts.
II. THAT all _Multitude_ must proceed from _Unity_, as the _Motions_ of the _lower Orbs_ proceed from that of the _one highest_; or as the many particular distinct _Actions_ and different _Motions_ of the Man, proceed from (their _Superior_) the SOUL.
III. THAT the _Subordination_ of the _Creatures_, one serving another, and all concurring to the _Common Good_, must needs proceed from the _Disposal_ of some most wise GOVERNOUR.
IV. THAT the wonderful and incomparable ART, observable in the _Make_ and _Form_ of every the minutest Part of the least and most despicable _Creature_, must necessarily proceed from some very great and omnipotent ARTIFICER.
V. THIS _Sect_ acknowledges also the _Immortality_ of the SOUL, as _Cicero_ witnesses; because it is an _immaterial Substance_, and independent of the _Body_: And consequently they allow it to proceed from an _immortal Author_, and to return to the _same_, after a _Dissolution_ from the Body.
AS to the _Moralist_, his way of _Reasoning_ is plainer to our common Capacities.
I. HE proves this _Argument_ from the _natural Disposition_ and _Propensity_ of the worst of Men, even _Atheists_ themselves, upon the Approach of Death or any heavy _Calamity_, to acknowledge some superior divine Power; as _Seneca_ witnesseth of _Caligula_, &c.
II. FROM the _ultimate End_ and chief _Good_ of Man; which (according to _Plato_) is nothing _Terrestrial_: Our _Souls_ being _insatiable_ in this Life, have a constant _Tendency_ to that particular END, for which we are _created_; which (in his Words) consists only in being _inseparably_ united to GOD.
III. FROM _Virtue_ and _Vice_, the _Rewards_ and _Punishments_ due to these from _Nature_ and _Reason_; which agree with _Equity_ and _Justice_, that they, who _live well_, should be _rewarded_ with this their _ultimate End_ and _final Felicity_: And those who live _otherwise_, should be _punished_ by the LOSS thereof forever. Thence they (of consequence) acknowledge, that there must be a just and powerful JUDGE, above all _created Beings_, to inflict this impartial SENTENCE.