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. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. coudonly be a Republication, or Reft oration of thacReS- *^-^,^£^t^r:*- ^r^2 ?~~~-£ gionthine wh:ch :s rounded on eternal Reafon of which, you fuppofe, is what we. 83&£ I JO- vernd by: we are obhgd to recede :rom words are everfo plain, if that recedesfrom the Reafon of things, as ail own the U::erdoes,in innumerable places relating to God himfclf; byimputing human parts, human infirmities, 3c humanpaflions, even of the worft kind, to him; & makingthofe the caufe-of many of his actions: And that asin. the OM Teftamsnt there are fcvcral things, eithercommanded, or approved, which woud be criminalin us to obferve, became we cant reconcile our doingthem with the Reafon of things, fo in the New Tefta-ment, its Precepts are for the moft part ceiiverdeither fo hyperbolical!;., that they woud , were they govemd by the ufsal meaning ofwords; or elfe eiprcfid in fo loofe, general, 3c fla-determind a manner, that Men are as much lerr to-be governd by the Reafon of things, as if there wereao fuchPrccepts: And the Striptute noteifthv-tuifning- be- «TV^ Hlfl.,. ..I |U*» .H« ? l| 1 ? S£-^ ;<^;j*^?sfe^r


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