. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. re u°,fhoud be made partakers of the Dhinc nature, be borxof God, and be-perfett as our hra-jenty Fa/her if fterjtcl-& can that be withoHt being as happy as we are per-fect? Hence we may contemplate the great dignity.,of our Rational nature, lince our Reafon for kind;rho. not tor degree, is of the fame nature with:thatof God; nay, tis our Reafon-which makes us theimage of God himfelf, & is-the common bondwhichunites Heaven & Earrh; the Creatures, & the Creator jand if our happinefs-is
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. re u°,fhoud be made partakers of the Dhinc nature, be borxof God, and be-perfett as our hra-jenty Fa/her if fterjtcl-& can that be withoHt being as happy as we are per-fect? Hence we may contemplate the great dignity.,of our Rational nature, lince our Reafon for kind;rho. not tor degree, is of the fame nature with:thatof God; nay, tis our Reafon-which makes us theimage of God himfelf, & is-the common bondwhichunites Heaven & Earrh; the Creatures, & the Creator jand if our happinefs-is becaufe our Reafonis for Tis God-alone, who has an unlimited Reafon:and, ;-;/:•- ^J.\- *~- •--_ ;..!*::: .•T h e: excellent Author- jufinow mention-d-feys,* Tbebelf thing Ave can-receive from God is him-felf, andhimfeltwe do receive in our tirieT corrtrpliance with/ the eternal Laws of goodnefs; which-Laws being traufcribd from the nature of God,... — „ frorm • * Qhnfi. Life. Parti: Wfcrfi Cb. U V*2 •- : ^ _ - *--?_---. ? ? ? ^:--^---. a?B»*iAigLi»fti fjElfe as t«e CREATION: Ch>V. III. -isaM^-i, front his eternal rigfcteoufnefs & goodncfs, we-dov >.:v.„ by obeying them, derive Gods nature into our own; \;-iS,j fc that while ve write after the copy of his Laws, • 3,,- we write our the perfections being: and his * A„ Laws being the fcal on which fie has engraven his_„ nrtire, we, in obeying them, take impreffion from„ then], and llamp his bkfied nature on our ,,Which, certainly, muft make us neceilarily happy,?ss a contrary condud woud make us_unhappy. And,I thiol, I may venture to fay, that ccu*d we fuppofeGod himfeif to acl ptherwife, he woad then be at,he now is happy; and his ornpipotency-coud not hinder him from being continually expos<Jto the reproach of his own infallible Reafon: a - -From thefe premifes, I think, we may conclude,-that Men,acco-ding as they do, or do not pat take of the nature
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