. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. rm ihem of the Deligr. & End of the Laws of God. Hud no: ntmibers in all ages thought, that Goddelighted in the and mifery of his Creatures,they ccnd never have the bed way toTender ihenr acceptable to him, was by tormentingthemfelves with immoderate watchings, fellings, pe-nances, and mortifications of all forts ; & the greaterthe more piaffing And even at prefer.: there arc•among Cbn::iani, jMahtmetacx, and Parens, numbersof iV;en whooevotc thcrcfclves to exercifes full of p
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. rm ihem of the Deligr. & End of the Laws of God. Hud no: ntmibers in all ages thought, that Goddelighted in the and mifery of his Creatures,they ccnd never have the bed way toTender ihenr acceptable to him, was by tormentingthemfelves with immoderate watchings, fellings, pe-nances, and mortifications of all forts ; & the greaterthe more piaffing And even at prefer.: there arc•among Cbn::iani, jMahtmetacx, and Parens, numbersof iV;en whooevotc thcrcfclves to exercifes full of painc: corpora! .icfFerings, and either wound, or mangletheir own prrfons, or find other ways of tormentingthemfrkes: &? indeed, the Superflitious every where--ihinfc, the lefs mercy they fhew to their bodies, mercy God will (hew to their fouls. M akt of rhe primitiveChriiiians,inftead of fiyiag,\as the Gofpel direfh, nor only ran voluntarily to exe-cution, bur provokd their judges to-do them tbat -:.; • . • Aird. * Krtvti Tf*s£. p. 121. Ed, c, S^tlsSfeSi
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