The Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the World fhould expect that the Divine Being fhould by fame means communicate bimfelf to Men, and declare his Will to them. CHAP. IL The Way and Manner by which Divine Revela tions may be fuppofed to be Delivered and Pre Jkrved in the World. MAnkind had fb corrupted themfelves, that the Will and Laws of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the World fhould expect that the Divine Being fhould by fame means communicate bimfelf to Men, and declare his Will to them. CHAP. IL The Way and Manner by which Divine Revela tions may be fuppofed to be Delivered and Pre Jkrved in the World. MAnkind had fb corrupted themfelves, that the Will and Laws of God could not be effectually made known to them, but by fome extraordinary way of Revelation. God had manifefted himlelf in the Creation of the World, and by the Prefervation of all things from the Beginning, according to their feveral Natures: For the invifible things of himy from the creation of the world are clearly feen, being under- flood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and God-head, Rom. i, 2o. But Men had corrupted themielves even in the plaineft and mofl fundamental Points of all Religion, and aded againft all the Didates of Natural Reafon, in worfhipping the vileft Parts of the Creation, rather than God himfelf, and in contempt and defiance of Him, had let up even fottr-foottd bea/ts and creeping things inftead of Gods. How then could the Power and Authority of God be aflerted, but by fome extraordinary way of Revelation; lince the ordinary and conftant Methods of God's revealing and manifefting himfelf by his Providence, in the Prefervation and Government of the World, had been fo fur perverted and abuftd, as that Men were feduced to theWorfhipof any thing, or of every thing, rather than of God ? Mankind had neither the Will nor Ability to reform themfelves, and had by their own fault brought themfelves under an utter incapacity of being reformedreformed bnt by fome extraordinary Revelation. Natural Realbn might have taught them tobelefs Wicked, but nothing could make them Righteous but a Revelation j and the grofs Errors and Crimes w...