78 .f7 Chain of Principles.' Aph. z. Hoc eft uncle vas maximè Chriftianade teftatur Ecclz- fia. Contr. Ju- lian. pelag. lib. 4. cap. 3. Ephel. 4.verf. 17. 18. Z1.Z4. Vide Grothm in Ephef,4a7. & in Rom. 1. nerf. 21, 2 Z. ofChriíf, were true graces. But ifAu- finmaybe credited,this above all their corrupt tenents was that for which the Chriftian Church did moft abominate them& their dotrine.YeaPaul,whom wearebound tobeleeve, in the fourth Chapter ofhis epiftle to the Ephefians, is thought to have concluded the con- trary : we finde there the life ofthe Gen. tiles clearly oppofed to the life of God, which they, faith he, were alienatedfrom; as alfo to the truth as it is in lefus and to that true holinefs , or holinef of truth wherewith every fpiritual worfhipper is endued. And fo far is theA offle in that place from excepting their philo- fophers , that , as Grotius thinks he aims efpecially at them ; becaufe his phrafe in the feventeenthverfe, Thatye walk not a.5 other Gentiles walk, in the va- nity oftheir miracle, is fully parallel with that in his epifile to theRomanes, They became vain in their imaginations.: which is certainly meant of their philofo- phers, for it follows profefsing them- felves
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