. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. 58ES=3S5 >jli<*&-£-;!r- W^mMmim siaigfjaiiiirTia. ? >%? -AS-THE CREATION.~-Cha] % V. vvithajs „ -for ever entertaining one thought of him; & were -,,-• it-not for Jiis goodnefs mi^ht-defpife die praifes of .~;; *his Creatures, with infinitely more reafon than wife -•:r„rMen do rbe applaufe of Fools. „ ~ •? > •• - - ;•.-•,-, To imagine, as Dr. Sect obferves, * that God r--;,- needs our fervices, and tequires them to fc-ve his,,-owmntcrefl, is to blafpheme hisAll-fufficiency,-?»< and

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. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. 58ES=3S5 >jli<*&-£-;!r- W^mMmim siaigfjaiiiirTia. ? >%? -AS-THE CREATION.~-Cha] % V. vvithajs „ -for ever entertaining one thought of him; & were -,,-• it-not for Jiis goodnefs mi^ht-defpife die praifes of .~;; *his Creatures, with infinitely more reafon than wife -•:r„rMen do rbe applaufe of Fools. „ ~ •? > •• - - ;•.-•,-, To imagine, as Dr. Sect obferves, * that God r--;,- needs our fervices, and tequires them to fc-ve his,,-owmntcrefl, is to blafpheme hisAll-fufficiency,-?»< and fuppofe him a poor indigent being,-who for«i;--want of-peTfecl: farisfactionwithin foted„~to roam abroad. And reife taxes -on-^is -Creatures,;,to enrich and fupply himfelf: So that whatfoever . -;,- fome high-fiov~£nthufialls may pretend, thattis„ fordid and mercenary to ferve God for our gocd, - -.,y 1 am fure, to ferve him for his good is profane & * „ hlafphcmous. „ - •?• ~ . - *-; • ;- ? As able a

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