. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. we are obhgd to recede :rom words are everfo plain, if that recedesfrom the Reafon of things, as ail own the U::erdoes,in innumerable places relating to God himfclf; byimputing human parts, human infirmities, 3c humanpaflions, even of the worft kind, to him; & makingthofe the caufe-of many of his actions: And that asin. the OM Teftamsnt there are fcvcral things, eithercommanded, or approved, which woud be criminalin us to obferve, became we cant reconcile our doingthem with t
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. we are obhgd to recede :rom words are everfo plain, if that recedesfrom the Reafon of things, as ail own the U::erdoes,in innumerable places relating to God himfclf; byimputing human parts, human infirmities, 3c humanpaflions, even of the worft kind, to him; & makingthofe the caufe-of many of his actions: And that asin. the OM Teftamsnt there are fcvcral things, eithercommanded, or approved, which woud be criminalin us to obferve, became we cant reconcile our doingthem with the Reafon of things, fo in the New Tefta-ment, its Precepts are for the moft part ceiiverdeither fo hyperbolical!;., that they woud , were they govemd by the ufsal meaning ofwords; or elfe eiprcfid in fo loofe, general, 3c fla-determind a manner, that Men are as much lerr to-be governd by the Reafon of things, as if there wereao fuchPrccepts: And the Striptute noteifthv-tuifning- be- «TV^ Hlfl.,. ..I |U*» .H« ? l| 1 ? S£-^ ;<^;j*^?sfe^rry ?-*•??;: aglH 3Sg. --- - ? ?• ?-- .x--- -.;;S-?- *-;. „-». ; ~ ~-~^f 5i sS^S^ is the CREATION. Chap. XIII. between tbofePrecepts which are occasional, Pc thofc vhichire not, we have no way to diflinguiih them, but from the Nature of things; which will point out to us thofe Rules, which eternally oblige, whether deliverd • in Scripture, or not. Thefe feniments you fo flronglyinforce, that I fnotid find it difficult not to yield, had . 1 not io able a-Combatant-as Dr. 5. Clark, for my;?- Second ; who, in his excellent JDifc«urJe of the -unal-. ttrcile tblicaiicn cf Satnral Rtligion, V the truth, and\-CtrUtets cf the Conflian Re-jtUticn, not only (hews,that they are cifrinci Religions, but the tage the latter has above the former: And tho this : good, as well as great Man is dead, whereby the% Church ha? fufhind an irreparable lois, yet he willr for ever live in this immortal Work. CHAP. XI V. :
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