APPENDIX.

I HAVE given in the preceding pages, the CREEDS of all the most noted sects professing Christianity; and that the work may be more complete, I have concluded to append a few of the principal tenets held by free-thinkers, under the title of

THE UNBELIEVER'S CREED."

"I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter; and that it is no matter, whether there is any God or no.

"I believe that the world was not made; that the world made itself; and that it had no beginning; that it will last forever, world without end. "I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and the body the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.

"I believe that there is no religion; that natural religion is the only religion, and that all religion is unnatural.

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"I believe not in Moses; I believe in the First Philosophy; I believe not the Evangelists; I believe in Chubb, Collins, Toland, Tindal, Morgan, Mandeville, Hobbes, Shaftsbury; I believe in Lord Bolingbroke, [Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, Boulanger, Volney, and Thomas Paine;] "I believe not St. Paul.

"I believe not Revelation; I believe in tradition; I believe in the Talmud; I believe in the Koran; I believe not the Bible; I believe in Socrates; I believe in Confucius; I believe in Sanchoniathon; I believe in Mahomet; I believe not in Christ,

"Lastly, I believe all unbelief."

These are the doctrines, that are to cheer the mind of the sceptic in the awful moment when his soul is floating on the confines of the two worlds, suffering the agony of bodily torture, and the remorse of an accusing conscience. In this exigency the only consolation afforded by infidelity is, "that there is no hereafter." When friends and relations are expressing by their agonized looks what they are afraid to utter: when medicines and pains are racking the debilitated frame: when the slumbers of conscience are for ever broken, and its awful voice raised:-all-all that unbelief can present to sustain the mind in this trying hour, is -the cold and comfortless doctrine of an ETERNAL SLEEP: