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Excerpt from An Essay of Health and Long Life The fecond Part of the Philofophioal Principles, to wit, that of Revealed Religion, was added afterward, to ibew, that all our Knowledge of Nature was by Analogy, or the Relations of Things only, and not their real Nature, Subfiance, or internal Principles That from this Method of Analogy, (the only Medium of human Knowledge) we tllld be necefl'arily led, to conclude the Attributes or Qualities of the fupreme and abfolute infinite, were in deed analogous to Properties or Qualities of finite Beings, but only in fuch a Manner as the Difference between ln finite and Finite requires; and that therefore, not..being able to know precifely thefe Differences, we ought ima plicitly to believe without reafoning what is revealed to us concerning the Nature of the infinite Being or bring our Reafon to fubmit to the Myfieries of Faith. How I have fucceeded is not for me to determine. As the End was honefi, I am feture the great Principles and the fun damental Propofitions are true and qt. They may want a little farther clearing up and explication: But as yet I have met with no Reafon to retrafi any thing material; elfe I fhould molt certainly do it. Theefl'ay on the Gout and Bath Waters was brought forth by mere Accident. The firfi Draught being, as I there mentioned, only a Paper of Dire tions for a Gentle. Man, my Friend and Patient, troubled with the Gout. It was enlarged upon different Occafions, and publifhed to prevent its being pyrated; feveral Copies having been given out to others in the fame Circumfiances. I have the Satisfaftion to know from many different Hands, that it has benefited great Numbers of infirm and afiiit'red Perfons; and {{ball therefore go on to cultivate it as far as my poor Abilities will permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.