. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. CHRISTIANITY ota Kavarette, a Cbintfe M iflionary, agrees with LeihaiZi& fays, that * „ It is Gods fpecia] Providence, thatthe Chinefes did not know what is done in Chri-„ (lendom; for if they did, there woud be never a -;, Man among them, but woud fpit in our faces.,,And he adds, with refpect to the manners of thofeEuropean Chnftians, who Come into the Indies,?& of the Converts made by the i&ijfnnaritt; ,, That„ there are few converted in thofe parts, where rhey„ converfe with the Europeans
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. CHRISTIANITY ota Kavarette, a Cbintfe M iflionary, agrees with LeihaiZi& fays, that * „ It is Gods fpecia] Providence, thatthe Chinefes did not know what is done in Chri-„ (lendom; for if they did, there woud be never a -;, Man among them, but woud fpit in our faces.,,And he adds, with refpect to the manners of thofeEuropean Chnftians, who Come into the Indies,?& of the Converts made by the i&ijfnnaritt; ,, That„ there are few converted in thofe parts, where rhey„ converfe with the Europeans; and when it happens„ that any are converted, they prove fo bad, it were,, better they bad never been baptizd. And I am afraid,tis much the fame in relation to the Wefi Indies. And,Bishop Kidder fays of Chriftiarts in general,„ That were a wife Man to choofe his Religion byi, the lives of thofe who profefs it, perhaps, Chriftia-,, nity woud be the laft Religion he woud chcoie.,,And who, that has been abroad, and compard theLives of Believers & Unbelievers, does
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