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THE KNOWLEDGE
OF
GOD BY
THE LIGHT OF
NATURE,
TOG&,THEK
WITH THE
USES OF
IT, AND
ITS DEFECTS.
Acts xiv.
15, 16, 11.
The
living God which made heaven and
earth,
and the
sea,
and all
things
that
are therein
;
who
in
times
past
suffered all nations
to'walk
in
their
own ways.
Nevertheless he left not himself without
witness,
in
that
he did good,
and
gave
us
rain
from
heaven, and fruitful
seasons,
filling our hearts with
food
and gladness.
WHEN
the
apostle Paul
gave
authority
to
his
minis
-.
trations
at
Lystra,
by
working
a
miraculous cure
on
a.
man
who was
born
a cripple, the
inhabitants
imagined
that
he
and
Barnabas
were gods,
and
were immediately,
preparing a
sacrifice
for them
;
but
to
divert
this mad
ness
and superstition
of
paying divine worship to
crea-
tures, the apostles, with
holy
jealousy and
indignation,
ran
into
the midst
of
them,
and preached to them
the
living
and the true God.
"
We, say they,
are utterly
un-
worthy
of
these divine
honours
;
for
we
are
men
of
such
flesh
and blood
as yourselves,
and are liable
to
the like
infirmities;
we
preach
to you,
that
ye
should turn
from
these vanities
to the
living
God,
who
made
heaven-
and
earth,"
&c.
From
which
words
we
may
raise these three distinct
observations:
VOL.
III.