. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. as are worthy of him,-3c Super-fhrion in fuch as are unworthy of him; yet that alonewoud net enable Men, when they came to particu-lars, to difhnguiih one from the other: And, there-tore, the fame Light of Nature jduU teach them whatnotions are worthy, and what unworthy oxhavugGod for their Author. Eur how can there be fuchraarxi Bowing from the natare of Religion & what is SuperflitOn by the Light of Nature,can, norwithrtanding theft marks, be made a part ofReligion by Revelation?
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. as are worthy of him,-3c Super-fhrion in fuch as are unworthy of him; yet that alonewoud net enable Men, when they came to particu-lars, to difhnguiih one from the other: And, there-tore, the fame Light of Nature jduU teach them whatnotions are worthy, and what unworthy oxhavugGod for their Author. Eur how can there be fuchraarxi Bowing from the natare of Religion & what is SuperflitOn by the Light of Nature,can, norwithrtanding theft marks, be made a part ofReligion by Revelation? :. 1> he, who refembles God mod is like to nudef-^and him belt, Js it not * ..becaufe, as BHhop TilUr-„ fim ooferves he finds thefe perfections ip fome„ raeafure in himfelf, which he contemplates in Az„ Givine Nature; and nothing gives a Man (o ru-c„ a notion of things as practice and experience;„ every good Man is in fome degree partake: of the »•?_ . divine f Strm. Vol. 3. £1,, ix. * * 711 »*••—.- 7>.-^J>.-«* sg^P*^ j v^^1 _> -*-. &=?:.-.,. *£ ijKl CREATION. Cka>.. X. tfrif ?, „ divine Nature, and feels that in hirofclf, which he ccrTceives toic in Ged, fo that this Man does ex- ; = peritnee what others do bat talk of; he fees die BMfil of Goa in himfclf, & is able to difcouife of hirrTfrom an inward fenfe &r feeling of his ercel-„ ,, Bur this vould not be jufl arguing, if arbitraryBeing, & coud command bis Crea-tures things which carried no perfection or goodnefs^with them. ? % ? ; I k a word, if the effencc of Religion conlifts inbelieving and praerifing fuch things, as have a realworth 6: excellency in them, tending to the honourof God, and the good of Man, the eilence of Super-fiition, which is its oppofite, rauft confift in imaginingto propitiate an allwifc and gracious Being by fuchthings as have worth or excellency in them, fuch ^^^Ksf «Kl®S§l feSSSrS
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