. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. HR-SB M $ fit JffSi p £?#* gjf *** ^i:. 243 CHRISTIANITY as old . --. Child, in order to poffcfs their country, woud net;our Divines fay, no Man coud be as certain he fuch pofitive Command from God, as lie was,:that God had forbid it him by the Light ot Nature?.Nor coud miracles be a proof of anyfuch Commif-fion; iincewc can only know from tbe nature of theythings themfelves, whether Miracles are done by a?,good, or evil Being; and we are to compare whas-we are told of God, with what we k
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. HR-SB M $ fit JffSi p £?#* gjf *** ^i:. 243 CHRISTIANITY as old . --. Child, in order to poffcfs their country, woud net;our Divines fay, no Man coud be as certain he fuch pofitive Command from God, as lie was,:that God had forbid it him by the Light ot Nature?.Nor coud miracles be a proof of anyfuch Commif-fion; iincewc can only know from tbe nature of theythings themfelves, whether Miracles are done by a?,good, or evil Being; and we are to compare whas-we are told of God, with what we know of him; ,Otherwife we believe in Men, & not in God. And if *the Light of Nature, (the voice of God himiek)teaches us, even to demonllration, that God is in-?finitely wife and good, does it not likewife demon-flrate, that no Command, not ftampd with rhefecharacters, can come from him, much !cfs a Coirirmand inc«nll(tent with all thofe duties that Men ?.sMen owe to one another ? li. Mat not God pumth fome kicked Nations-with death, to fright others from commfetiDa the :amecrimes? A. God ha thr ias a thousand ways rn
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