. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. and oiar Reli-gion 2 ; firdse, there muft be fuch a necef-fety, ciofe connexion between them, as to leavenoroom for anything that is arbitrary to intervene :And confrcueaHy, the Religion of all rational beingsTnuit iihng fuch a conduft to God, & theirfellow-Creatcres, as Reafon, whatever circumfiancesthey are in, coes cir;<ft. \V£ find St. Paul himfelf faying, that Tho_ we,(the ApufHesl cr (.n from Hta-ven , frtacb anytther GoM, la him be accurftd: * And is not

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. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. and oiar Reli-gion 2 ; firdse, there muft be fuch a necef-fety, ciofe connexion between them, as to leavenoroom for anything that is arbitrary to intervene :And confrcueaHy, the Religion of all rational beingsTnuit iihng fuch a conduft to God, & theirfellow-Creatcres, as Reafon, whatever circumfiancesthey are in, coes cir;<ft. \V£ find St. Paul himfelf faying, that Tho_ we,(the ApufHesl cr (.n from Hta-ven , frtacb anytther GoM, la him be accurftd: * And is not thistevinti the whole iirefs on its internal marks? Sincetheres ; in the nature of fuch things as havenot thofe marks, to hinder them from being changdcverv ? ? - An d as to thofe who deprefs Reafon, in order to exalt Revela~on, , I woud atk tbem ; what greater the Scnpture can give us of the rectitude of human unoerSanding in religious, matters, than cal- line it the ]r. iirxticn 0] the Almighty ; \ or than God sfo ftecuentlr appealingto it, ior the jitftification of. his own conduct?* Ctl. I. S

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