and other Duties, recommended. 28 r and pallions he requireth us to deny, that S E R M. we may be his difciples ; not our reafon, XL for to that he teaçheth nothing contrary. Certain it is, God doth not require us to be- lieve a contradiEtion or abfurdity, or what appeareth to be fo to our own underftand- ing upon an impartial inquiry, it being im- polible that we íheuld really believe it ; and to imagine that chrilianity containeth any fuch thing, is to reproach it and its blefied author. If, for example, any one fhould impofe upon us, under the pretence of di- vine authority, fuch a principle as tranfub- Jiantiation, which containeth a manifeft ab- furdity, and deftroyeth the very foundations of human knowledge, as we could not pof- fibly affent to it with underftanding, we ought not to profefs it. It is the fuggeftions of corrupt appetite and pallions, the incli- nations of the carnal mind, which is en- mity againft God, we ought to deny, in order to the obedience of faith, not the principles of reafon, which are originally from God, and as truly as revelation is. We ought, however, to make a differ- ence between the teachers of divine truth ; fuch as God hath fealed, and given them fufficient credentials of their million from him, fhould be fubmitted to, and their doine
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