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Theologico-Political Treatise - Part 1

Chapter 6 No.6

Word Count: 71    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

and to grant him ample rewards. (2) Abraham answered that he could expect nothing

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Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1
Theologico-Political Treatise - Part 1
“(1)Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity. (2) The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over - confident, and vain.”
1 Chapter 1 No.12 Chapter 2 - OF PROPHETS.3 Chapter 3 OF THE VOCATION OF THE HEBREWS, AND4 Chapter 4 - OF THE DIVINE LAW.5 Chapter 5 - OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW.6 Chapter 6 No.6