. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. SSfgefsg mihi CREATION. Chap. Xltl .lAp change in thcfc relations, Srthe duties that neceffarilyrtfult ftoffl them, can only recommend, & inculcatethcfc duties; except we fuppofe, that God at Lift , and imposd fuch Commands, as wc in to him, & one another, uo waysrequire. ; , • _ - To imagine any external Revelation not to depend-on the Rcifon of Things, is to make give•place to Words, and implies,that from the time thisRule commened, we were forbid
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. SSfgefsg mihi CREATION. Chap. Xltl .lAp change in thcfc relations, Srthe duties that neceffarilyrtfult ftoffl them, can only recommend, & inculcatethcfc duties; except we fuppofe, that God at Lift , and imposd fuch Commands, as wc in to him, & one another, uo waysrequire. ; , • _ - To imagine any external Revelation not to depend-on the Rcifon of Things, is to make give•place to Words, and implies,that from the time thisRule commened, we were forbid tp s<ft as moral-agents, in judging what is good,or evil, fir,or unfit;sad thst we are to make no other ufe of our Reafon,.than to fee what is the literal mea-ntng of texts, & toadmit that only to he the will of God, tho e»er foinconfinent with the Light of Nature, & the eternalReafon or Things. Is not this 10 infer, theres nothingpood or evil in itfelf, but that all depends on the Willof an arbitrary Being, which, tho it may changeevery moment, is to be unalterably found in fuch
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