. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. ng, or compounding with Heaven. And, indeed, all fuch - commuting, or compounding powers, wherever thev are fupposd to be lodgd, fcrve as a Bank of credrt for t-ie tranfgreiTbrs, and are a mighty incitement to all manner of viflany. And in former great Men, having oppreftd and plundcrd people, thought to compound with Heaven, by letting Ehe Clergy in the fpoil: and tis on this notion fo many Ahbies & Monailerics have heen founded; & the long as they are perfu
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. ng, or compounding with Heaven. And, indeed, all fuch - commuting, or compounding powers, wherever thev are fupposd to be lodgd, fcrve as a Bank of credrt for t-ie tranfgreiTbrs, and are a mighty incitement to all manner of viflany. And in former great Men, having oppreftd and plundcrd people, thought to compound with Heaven, by letting Ehe Clergy in the fpoil: and tis on this notion fo many Ahbies & Monailerics have heen founded; & the long as they are perfuaded there is any virtue in externals, will, as tre fee by conWant exper jience, chiefly depend on fuch things. And I mayadd, This Doctrine, that one Man may net only merit for hirafef by doing more than God requires of him, but that the merit of fuch aftions may be transferd to another, who has done leis than God requires of him. has been a great incitement to wickednefs; and thofc who have afted a moil, immoral Dart during ,..;.? *«I * lnfitx:. 1. 3. c. xS. n. J£ - %mm -$%t&. as the CREATION. Chap. X. ire their iviiole lives, have believd they might comfortably :reiy on it; nothing being thought too hard for merit & mediation. _ ......... s. - There are none, 1 think, now fo inwords to maintain, that theres the lead variablenessin God, much lefs that he is an arbitrary Being, com-manding things for commanding-fake; yet are notthey, alien there are meeriy pofitivc things inthe Chriuian Religion, guilty of this abfurdity; in {up-pcfing that God, who had the goodnefs for a longtime, not to confine Mankind to any indifferent tilingsyet at length changd his mind, 6c repented of thisgreat goodnefs; & arbitrarily deprivd, they will notfay, all Mankind, but no fmall number of this liberty;and requird of them the belief of certain ufclefs , & the pr^ftice of certain indifferent thingson the feverefi penalties. And when they lament thatthe Chriftian Worl
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