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·
The
~cotifirJJz ing
ll
7
ork
·
than
that
utter Ejlrangem(!nt, 111ojl
are
~uzder,
_to·the t-rue Gro'unds ofFaith, and
. /
to
tk~fr J!t~zda111entitl
'lJijferences
betw~xt
Chrijltanzty, and e-very falfo
Way,
whtch
.
no
pretended ReligioJZ can lay clai1n io.
The Reafons ·of the
P.o
s
1T 1oN,
are
theie,
.
I.
THAT
it
is
too
vifibly
manifeft,
how
no Men in the
World
know
fo little
of
th~ir
own
Profeffion, of
~ny
hutnan
Art
or·· Science,- as
f
uch ,who bear
th'e
· , / Nan1e of
Chriflia;zs.
Or
are
fo
generally
Strangers
to
the
Truth
and
Fitmnefs
of
the Principles
thereof, for
maintaining
.either 'a due
Valuation?
or
1)owerful
~
Senfe
of
tl~e
fame
on
t~e1r
Soul ;
fo
that·
an · implieit and
trai/it:ional Pi·ofeffion is
the
only
Part and
Propriety
which
moft
can
clai111
in
the
Truth, ai1d
Doctrine
they
pr,ofef:,".
,
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·
. II.
rr
HAT
very·
rarely alfo is
any fe ..
rious,
p_erforlal
Eqquir.y and Trial,
if
there
be indeed
fuch
a
ThiQg, as an
Ex..
perfn·zentP~l
and oul-quickning
Religion
in
the Earth. That can
bear ·
the
Expence ·
of the
moft difrnal and affiifting
Titnes,
!'
'
and hafh
16 great .a
t~tnporal
Rev
ue,
a-8
Peace with G-OD,an
i1n~ediate b~n-.
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