Discourses concerning the truth of the Christian religion . he intention feems upright,and the end propofed is to makemen better and wifer, what is notill executed jhould be received withapprobation, with good words and good ( i* ) good wijhes, and fmall faults andinadvertencies fhould be candidly ex-cufed. Much more than this it mayie vanity or folly to expeSl. And here I thought to have con-cluded; but thefe words of Grotiuscome fo often into my mind> that Icannot forbear to quote them. Lap-fum Origenem in quibufdam rebusnegari non poteft. Quale mihi ne-quid eveniat, Deum fupplex precor,f
Discourses concerning the truth of the Christian religion . he intention feems upright,and the end propofed is to makemen better and wifer, what is notill executed jhould be received withapprobation, with good words and good ( i* ) good wijhes, and fmall faults andinadvertencies fhould be candidly ex-cufed. Much more than this it mayie vanity or folly to expeSl. And here I thought to have con-cluded; but thefe words of Grotiuscome fo often into my mind> that Icannot forbear to quote them. Lap-fum Origenem in quibufdam rebusnegari non poteft. Quale mihi ne-quid eveniat, Deum fupplex precor,foleoque fcriptis meis hanc adderecautionem, ut fi quid ibi fit alie-num dogma [a veritate et facrisLiter is] id pro non fcripto ha-beatur. In this 1 would willingly joynwith Grotius. Whofoever is in thedifpoftion which he defcribesy takesthe bejl way to fecure himfelf from dangerous ( x ) ngerous errors; and if he hasany wrong notions ^ there is reafonto hope that they proceed not froma bad mind) but are only the Iffuesof unfortunate Inquiry. John CONTENTS. THE prejudices of the Jews and Gen-tiles. Page i. II. The propagation of the GofpeL P. 82, III. The kingdom ofChriJi. Pf in. IV. The fitnefs of the time when Chrift came intothe world. P. 149. V. The tejlimony of John the Baptiji. P. 166. VI. The Scriptures of the New Tejlanient. P. 191, VII. The Gojpel, as it is grace and truth. P. 221, Of the Prejudices of the Jews and Gentiles, WHEN we read over the hiftoryof Chrifly and confider the va-riety of beneficial miracles whichhe wrought, and his mild and inoffenfivebehaviour, it muft at firft light feem veryftrange that the Jews mould reject himand put him to death ; that they, who hadfo long expected and fo greatly defired thecoming of the Mejfias,- mould perfecute andkill him when he appeared amongft them,and fo well confirmed his right to the cha-racter which he affumed. When we confider farther how theApoftles afterwards confirmed the truth ofhis refurrection, how
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