. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. inions & prtcbcesnot ..more fenfiefs, than thofe look en aseffentials. And were it not in fo ferious a matter* -i: woud he diverting to fee how they damn oneanother, for placing Religion in whiruiical notions, and fantailical Rites & Ceremonies, without makingthe leait refieclion on whauhey are doing. What reafon has a Pofiji, for instance, to laugh .:at an Indian, who thinks it contributes to his futurehappinefs to dye with a Cows tail in his hands, whilehe Jays as great 2
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. inions & prtcbcesnot ..more fenfiefs, than thofe look en aseffentials. And were it not in fo ferious a matter* -i: woud he diverting to fee how they damn oneanother, for placing Religion in whiruiical notions, and fantailical Rites & Ceremonies, without makingthe leait refieclion on whauhey are doing. What reafon has a Pofiji, for instance, to laugh .:at an Indian, who thinks it contributes to his futurehappinefs to dye with a Cows tail in his hands, whilehe Jays as great 2 ftrefs on rubbing a dying Man witho;l? Has not the Indian as much right to moralizethis action of his, and Ihew its , as-thePeptft any of his myftick rites> or Htcns Poem nicks?which have^as little foundation in the nature or reafcrtof things. Suppose one C3me from the furthermofr partsof the Earth, vouching it as a divine Revelation, tharthe naiis of our Children are, at a cer?n time, to bepard by certain Perfons with certain ceremonies, in- -?..- • . .-- order. fear iSs J I ri?« as the CREATION. Cha*:x Vr*©rcer to make rhem capable of Salvation; and thatfikfi as dyd before their mis were thus pard, re-mahtd forever in a very wretched ftate; woad* notevery one. here, without examining into this Mansmiffioa, or-without regard to thofe fpiritual thingsiign:?yr sfeig certain me;:s &: drinks at fisted times; andin walking?, fprinklings, and luftrations by blood orwater; and yet th^c tilings were in fo high a reputewi± r„oft c: the Ps^nr, that they thought they woud
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