. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. atural & Reveald Rekgionj and ,become Prieft-wormippers, & to have a dwme fai*in their dicbtes, and indeed, fo they ought, iftnefcPriefls had, as they claim, a judicial power to deter-mine of Mens condition hereafter , and thereby makeGod a roeer executioner of their Sentences, by WHICHthey bind, or loofe Mens fins to eternity. As this notion carries with it the higheft Hafphcmy ?and idolatry, fo I think it is treated too gently byMr. Chtiinhmrtb, in feying, * „This presumptuous„ imoofine of the f

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. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. atural & Reveald Rekgionj and ,become Prieft-wormippers, & to have a dwme fai*in their dicbtes, and indeed, fo they ought, iftnefcPriefls had, as they claim, a judicial power to deter-mine of Mens condition hereafter , and thereby makeGod a roeer executioner of their Sentences, by WHICHthey bind, or loofe Mens fins to eternity. As this notion carries with it the higheft Hafphcmy ?and idolatry, fo I think it is treated too gently byMr. Chtiinhmrtb, in feying, * „This presumptuous„ imoofine of the fenfes of Men upon tire words of„ God, the fpeciil fenfes of Men upon the general„ words of God, & laying them upon Mens Con-^, fciences together under -the equal penalty ot deatft„ 8:damnation, this vain conceit, that we can freak„ of the things of Cod better than rbe words of God,-,. this drifvine our ovn interpretations, & tyrannous•I . - . ::?. --:^O f . >» i>.4:iWiii!/»»«is-Rel» Proteft. Pait-i. cr 4$eft. 16. p. 151. Edit, j< - - .7

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