. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. ridicule c? contempt?; or madeMankind the dupe of dcfcnini knaves, and taught jicrcebiron 10 excrcifi, and tbtn fantlify the mojl atmmm iarhariiits. ? „ , . h The Mfeeifl, fop he,-1 knows no God at all; the Sunentitious none hut what is monftrous and Terrible; mifiaking for dreadful,what is mod kind , & beneficent: for tyrannical, what is truly paternal; formifchievouily indind, what is full or providen- , rial care; Being brutally favage &fierce, ;, what is meerGoodnefs itfelf. Shall the

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. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. ridicule c? contempt?; or madeMankind the dupe of dcfcnini knaves, and taught jicrcebiron 10 excrcifi, and tbtn fantlify the mojl atmmm iarhariiits. ? „ , . h The Mfeeifl, fop he,-1 knows no God at all; the Sunentitious none hut what is monftrous and Terrible; mifiaking for dreadful,what is mod kind , & beneficent: for tyrannical, what is truly paternal; formifchievouily indind, what is full or providen- , rial care; Being brutally favage &fierce, ;, what is meerGoodnefs itfelf. Shall then,«Mif &.S the Atheift be counted impious, & not this iuPer- flitions Perfon much more fo ? I, for my part, had rather Men mould fay there is no fuch Perfon;as ? Plutarch, than that he is -a Man inconfiant, fickle, to ancer, 5 ready to revenge upon , the fifejrteft eccafion, & full of indignation for nicer „ jrifievc-r. And yet this is no -more than what the * TC>. ~B, ere. t *** «7«T ^nZ m 3^^*;.. isSs5 ?jM%g&&

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