inamm., for knowing the Truth. 157 The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the SERM. firmament Jheweth his handy -work. Day unto X day uttereth jpeech, and night unto night f eweth knowledge. There is no fßeech, nor language, where their voice is not heard: Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world *. And not only are men inftructed by the works of God, in the firft principles of religion, from which they may infer their duty, but he has engraven on their hearts a fenfe of good and evil, and written in them the work of his law, to the rectitude of which their confciences bear witnefs t. This is the original foundation of religion laid in the frame of our nature, to which any true revelation can only be fuppofed to be a fuperftruiture accommodated to fome fpecial exigencies which have arifen in the fiate of mankind. It is as much and as certainly as any thing can be the voice of God. And being that which is the firft and molt clearly known to us, it is the rule whereby all doc- trines faid to be of God, are to be examined and nothing received as filch, which is found by every one judging for himfelf, contrary to it. Pfalm xix. 1, 2, 3, 4, t Roìñ, ii, 35. VOL. II, S Novi,
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