The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, Vol. 1 of 3

Excerpt from The Divine Legation of Moses DemonstratedSect. VL Â The atheistical pretence of religion's being an invention of statesmen, and therefore false, clearly minted, and shown to be both impertinent and false. For that, were the atheist's account of religion right, it would not follow that religion was false. But the contrary. But the pretence false and groundless, religion having existed before the civil magistrate was in being.