. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. ote it: And is it pofiible to be otherwifc, aslong as Men are taught to build their Religion on anarrower foundation, than that on which the univerfalBeing has univerfally laid it i T i s the cbfervation of Xaturallfts, rhat there isno fpecies of creatures, but what have fome innateweaknefs, which makes them an eafy prey to other-Animals, that know how to make their advantage ofit: Now the peculiar foible of Mankind is Superftition,which at all times has made thenr liable to be practisdon, not by
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. ote it: And is it pofiible to be otherwifc, aslong as Men are taught to build their Religion on anarrower foundation, than that on which the univerfalBeing has univerfally laid it i T i s the cbfervation of Xaturallfts, rhat there isno fpecies of creatures, but what have fome innateweaknefs, which makes them an eafy prey to other-Animals, that know how to make their advantage ofit: Now the peculiar foible of Mankind is Superftition,which at all times has made thenr liable to be practisdon, not by creatures of different fpecies, but by tliofcof their own; who, by a confident pretence of knowingmore than their neighbours, have firft circumventedthe many, the credulous & unwary, and afterwards•fored the free-thinking few into an outward com-pliance: And as far as we have an account of things,we ftraH find that moft of the prevailing Superftitionshave been erected on this foundation and to it owetheir whole fuppcrt. And whoever knows any thing K4 cf * Clctrt 1. %, dc Divinat, c. 71,. 1^^ mm *&&g/£#^ mm S5£S! ~.\»i+ ym:- ^~^ S5»* gees Ml Hi im^m^f^. s»e ^*t S?^£
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