. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. which, tho it may changeevery moment, is to be unalterably found in fuch aBook ? An Divines, I think, now agree in owning,thattheres a Law of Reafsn, antecedent to any externalRevelation, rhat God cant difpenfe, cither with hisCreatures or himfclf, for not obfcrvjngj and that noexterna! Revelation can be true, that :n the leaft cir-cumfiance, or minuteft poinr, is inconsistent with fo, how can we affirm any one thing in Revelationto be true, till we perceive, by that unrerlianding,which God
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. which, tho it may changeevery moment, is to be unalterably found in fuch aBook ? An Divines, I think, now agree in owning,thattheres a Law of Reafsn, antecedent to any externalRevelation, rhat God cant difpenfe, cither with hisCreatures or himfclf, for not obfcrvjngj and that noexterna! Revelation can be true, that :n the leaft cir-cumfiance, or minuteft poinr, is inconsistent with fo, how can we affirm any one thing in Revelationto be true, till we perceive, by that unrerlianding,which God has given us todifcern the truth of things,whether it agrees with this immutable Law,or not? If we cant believe oiuerwife than as things appearto our underflandings, to fu-ppofe God requires us togive up oar understandings (a matter we cant knowEat by ufing our underftanding ) to any authoritywhatever, is to fuppofe he requires our felt-evident notions being the foundation of-all certainty, we can only judge of things, as theyate found to be more or fefs agreeable to
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