Christianity as Old as the Creation, or the Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1730 Excerpt: ...to Natural Religion; and whatever Reafon tells us is unworthy of having God for its Author, can never belong to.the Truft Reveal'd Religion. 'Tis upon this very Plan, that I have endeavour'd to fhew you wherein True and Genuine Chriftianity confifts. B. B Y the Reafoning of thefe Divines, Religion is the plaineft Thing in the World: We, ic feems, have nothing to do, but to examine what Notions are worthy of God, in order to know his Will; but do they tell us, how we may certainly know what thofe Notions are?. All Divines of what Denominationfoever agree, at leaft in Words, that God can't act arbitrarily in the Government of the World, or command things for Commanding-fake; but that all his Laws, being calculated for the Good of Mankind, carry with them the Marks of confummate Wifdom and Goodnefs. However, I fhall mention two. 'the incomparable Archbifhop Tillotfon fays, Vol.S.p.iiS. "It wou'd be little lefs than an horrjd and "dreadful Blafphemy, to fay, that God out of "his fovereign Will and Pleafure, can do any "Thing which contradicts the Nature of God, "or the effential Perfections of the Deity; or to ' imaginethat the Pleafure and Will of the holy, "juft and good God, is not always regulated, and determin'd by the effential and indifpenfabfe ' Laws of Goodnefs, Holinefs and Righteoufnefs." Q a The Chrift. Life. T H E judicious Dr. Scott affirms, ' That to parti. Vol.I.n fuppofe the Will and Power of God is not p.161-- perfectly fubjecl: to his moral Perfections, is to "fuppofe him a very defective and imperfect Be "ing; a lawlefs Will and Power being the great 4' eft Defe& in Nature: wherefore to fecure our "Minds againft all injurious Apprehehfions of ' God, this is a moil neceffary Rule; tha...