Preferrableness

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And for this Reason I have ſet down among the Inſtances belonging to particular Qualities ſome ſuch Experiments and Obſervations, as we are now ſpeaking of, ſince, although they be not direct proofs of the preferrableneſs of our Doctrine, yet they may ſerve for Confirmation of it;

AN ARGUMENT / For the Preferrableneſs of a Company to Single Purchaſers, in Diſpoſing of the Iriſh Forfeitures, with regard to Publick Benefit.[…]The very common Notion, which all Men have, of the Preferrableneſs of Freedom to Reſtraint in Point of Dignity doth make this certain.

The drift of all his Reaſonings (if the Logicians will forgive me for calling Abſurdities ſo) is to ſhew the Preferrableneſs of a Government, by one or a few Perſons, to a Government by many;

Now, this Life is the Man’s firſt and moſt weighty Concern to ſeek the ſecuring and advancing of; as will be evident from the Preferrableneſs of it before the other, Matth. 16. 26.

There is no room to doubt of the goodneſs of this tranſlation, and its preferrableneſs to that of our margin;

There is not the leaſt doubt of the preferrableneſs of true theology to every atheiſtic ſcheme, antient or modern, as Epicurus himſelf owns (b);

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