. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. the Godhead bodily, and talking in feveraiother places of a fpiritual body, thev concluded thatthat was the fame with a bodily Spirit; tho our Di-vines now very well know how to diftinguifb between a bodily Spirit &C a fpirit/ul Utij. Im Ihort, there are fcarce any words in any onelanguage, e-scept of fuch things as immediately ftnkethe fenres, that are adequately anfwerd in another,fo as exactly to comprehend the fame ideas; and ifthe ideas are only fewer, or more, what conrtifionmay not that occ
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. the Godhead bodily, and talking in feveraiother places of a fpiritual body, thev concluded thatthat was the fame with a bodily Spirit; tho our Di-vines now very well know how to diftinguifb between a bodily Spirit &C a fpirit/ul Utij. Im Ihort, there are fcarce any words in any onelanguage, e-scept of fuch things as immediately ftnkethe fenres, that are adequately anfwerd in another,fo as exactly to comprehend the fame ideas; and ifthe ideas are only fewer, or more, what conrtifionmay not that occailon ? How great, & frequent madthe miftakes then be, in tranilanng the antiquatedlanguages of people, who livd at a vaft difrance oftime, as well as in countries far remote; & affectedhyperbolical, parabolical, myftical, allegorical, & ty-pical ways of expreffing themfelvcs, as oppolite to the uuge* Cotell. Not. ad Script. Jpofl. p. 419. \ Tertul. ad-jtr. + See -Qaiili de Ufu Patrum. L z. p. 160. & i63. J m£ ts-tKE CREATION. Chap. XIII. 16c •cfac;e ir, other parts, as Eajl is to «>/?. And not only-this but it will be likewife neceffary to have an ac-curate knowledge of their manners, cuilorns, tradi-tions, philofophy, religious notions, feds, civil andcccleCaftica- polity; of all which the common peopleknow as litnel as they do of the original languages;•and having very obscure,& incompetent conceptionsof the principal words, JStpfinfcs usd in the verfions,their Religion mull needs be a very odd jumble ofconfuse! & isconfiftent notions, were it to depend onwords. & their precife meaning, & not on the thingsthemfeives , and their relations , which are plain andobvious to common capacities; they woud be in amanner intirely govemd by founds, force of which,fuch, as they usd to hear fpoken of .with relpect,they woud revctence, while others, tho ofthe fame ncnlncaticii, they woud as much abhor,til]
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