. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. CHRISTIANITY as old 33% V-nMJl IASSL IX AS ot» v.*U^g • These reafons (hew the infinite goodnefsofGod;^by not only thus deeply impreffing that Law on nature, by .which God expeds all Men fhoudgovern all their a&ions; but in making the vervob-:-ferving thi<: Law, to carry with it, dilhndt from the:good it produces, the higheft fatisfadion, & rationalenjoyment; and the contrary,: th« forrow, remorfe, ,& felf-condemnation, which are the unavoidable con- -fequence of ading againft it: And o
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. CHRISTIANITY as old 33% V-nMJl IASSL IX AS ot» v.*U^g • These reafons (hew the infinite goodnefsofGod;^by not only thus deeply impreffing that Law on nature, by .which God expeds all Men fhoudgovern all their a&ions; but in making the vervob-:-ferving thi<: Law, to carry with it, dilhndt from the:good it produces, the higheft fatisfadion, & rationalenjoyment; and the contrary,: th« forrow, remorfe, ,& felf-condemnation, which are the unavoidable con- -fequence of ading againft it: And of this the Philo-fophers of old , and 1 believe, all fince, who do not-adulterate Religion with things that are not moral(and coiifec/.tentiy, carry no fatisfnction with them)-mult be fallible. But as it woudbe endlefs, to men-tion all the Dr. fays of the itrefiltable evidence, as wellas the abfolute perfection of the eternal, & immutableLaw of Nature, I lhall recite but one paffage more,,?which he fupporrs by the Authority of Bilhop Cum-berland. „ This, fays he, * is
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