. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. le perfons,.veil-knowing that the commands of the Immortal Godswere net tobedifputed by Mortals, * moll rehgioufiyexecuted as foon as the pleafnre of theGods vasiignifyd to them by thofe their will. And this blind-devotion might havecontinud till not an Infidel Prince, bred upin the profane Phslofophy-of -the Greeks, put a nop to •it by furpriung, 8c defkoying at once all thofe holyImpoQors. ? .*. --?-. -- .--?..- W e learn from Bernier & others, that it
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. le perfons,.veil-knowing that the commands of the Immortal Godswere net tobedifputed by Mortals, * moll rehgioufiyexecuted as foon as the pleafnre of theGods vasiignifyd to them by thofe their will. And this blind-devotion might havecontinud till not an Infidel Prince, bred upin the profane Phslofophy-of -the Greeks, put a nop to •it by furpriung, 8c defkoying at once all thofe holyImpoQors. ? .*. --?-. -- .--?..- W e learn from Bernier & others, that it has beenan immemorial cuftom in Indoflin, for the Women(fo great a power has Superftirion even over that fear-ful Sex) to burn themfelves with their dead Husbands,adomd with all the incombuiiiblc riches they coudprocure on their own account; or that the roily ofothers woud fend by-them to their dead friends tThcfe their Prie:ls fecurc to themfelves, bjy telling .•.-• • - - -? - Eke •.. •-.* Bind. Sic. i. 3. p. icz. B, & d. mW &- fe^ sm&§%M:;, mmmsssm m. as ibb CREATION. Chaf. S3 • people that the afhes of .the dead, 2ndsi! burnt with them, are too Jacrcd to be touched bysny but thernfelves. ?• - - • ..£. Tho human Sacrifices obtaind among theHeathen, yet Aire the Lcvitical Law ,or countenance any fucti practices. .- .A. A utkoes «re divided, & they who maintainthe afirmative fay, thst the Ltvitical Lsw diftinguiifcbetween ordinary Vtwj, and tiiofe Vows where is /Uvctedto the Lord; and this they prctcfiiis plain from Lev:: 17. where after many futptifingthings about common Vow?, by which the thingsthemfelves, Or money in lieu of rhem, were to begiven to the Prielt; at Vcr. 28 it comes K> tilingsdevoted, and fays, Kof&itn/landing, no dtx-otcd thingthat a Man fcall demote unto the Lord, tf all that hihath^bcth of Men atid cca/is,and of the field rj h:s fop-,.fejfion, flail be (old or redeemd; every devo
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