Of Natural, Moral, and Civil Liberty. 69 ance ; for the law of the fpirit of life in S E x M. Chr .7efus thall make all them who fin- III. cerely fubmit to it, free from the law of fin"--v""" and death. The defign of chriftianity being to Phew fuch divine paternal tendernefs towards man- kind, degenerate as they were, by a method fo beneficial to our nature, and well fuited to its frame and condition, we ought to re- ceive it with great thankfulnefs. Indeed God never left himfelf without witnefs of his mercy to men, not only giving them rain from heaven; and filling their hearts with food and gladnefs, not only by that kind proteáling care of his providence, whereby their fiate of exiftence here hath been ren- dered tolerable, nay comfortable, whereby they were invited to repentance, but by a more inward illumination and inftruaion they were direai ed to purfue the higheft ends of their beings. As he endued them originally with reafon, he í1i11 preferved their rational powers, as by giving them a fenfe of good and evil, of right and wrong, enabling them to difcern whatfoever things are true, hon:11, jujl, pure, lovely, and of good report, he wrote the work of his law in their hearts ; fo confcience was an inward abiding witnefs to the rectitude of that law, F 3 and
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