. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. is there com-- -mended to build an Altar. - ? A. What you fay may be true, fince there are;feveral miftakes crept into the Old Tefiament, wheretheres karee a chapter, which gives any hiftoricali ,account of matters, but there are fome things in ir»i .which coud not be there originally; i and even ia-this Book of Chronicles, there are things rnent:ond;-i,too late to be inferred by Ezra, or Nehemiah. And I *jtiialit add, that the JewjbHiftory being for the taken from larger accounts, tis n
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. is there com-- -mended to build an Altar. - ? A. What you fay may be true, fince there are;feveral miftakes crept into the Old Tefiament, wheretheres karee a chapter, which gives any hiftoricali ,account of matters, but there are fome things in ir»i .which coud not be there originally; i and even ia-this Book of Chronicles, there are things rnent:ond;-i,too late to be inferred by Ezra, or Nehemiah. And I *jtiialit add, that the JewjbHiftory being for the taken from larger accounts, tis no wonder its ?abflracts are not always very exact. . •*>? ? I coud eive you many more inftances of this na—trare,but I am afraid fome will think thefe too many;-rhoI have Said nothing,but what Archbilhop TiM*WW*tioes in efifeft, in affirming, § „ The difference he-- tween the St vie of the Old and New Teftaroent is; . fo * I Sam. f r Chr. H. ic, 16. 18. + See Prldtmtxi Connect. Part I. B. 5. p. «74. § Serrn. Vol. X. p. 185, aaBsssKBSBSSk. u,^^ a s tite CREATION. Ck a p. XUl. 14 ji, fo very remarkable, that one of the greatefi SeAs£ in the primitive times did upon this very -round,„ found their Herefy ot Tsoo Gcds: The one evil]„ fierce, and cruel, whom they calld The God of the„ ; the ether good, kind, & merfifui,,, they , The God of the Kcx :t, So great a difference is there between the reprefen-„ tations, uhich are made of God in the books of,-, the jcwirc & Ckrijiier, Religion, as to give, at leaft,„ fome colour, and pretence for an imagination ofj, two Gods.,, Bur, - . - • - - • It muft be-ownc,that rhe fame fpirit-(I dare notcall it a fpirit of cruelly) does not alike prevailthroughout the Old j efiament; the nearer we cometo the times of the GofpcJ, the milder it appcard,;• for tho God declares in the Decalogue, thai he is artoioKi God, crjiu(«| :bc iniquity of thi Parents uioti
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