tU built on the Perfon ofChrifl. I 9 of the Church concerning ir, the Relation of theChurch un– to it, . the building of the Church on it, the Life and Prefer– v·ation of the Church thereby, are the things that the Gates cfHell are .ingaged in an oppofition unto. :For c 1. lt is known with what fubtih:y and urgency his Divine Nature and Perfon are oppofed by the Socinians. What an Acceffion is made daily unto their incredulity, what incli– nation of mmd multitUdes do manifeft towards their perni. cious waies., are aJfo evident unto all who have any concern– ment 'in or for Religion. But this Argumeq.t I have labour- , ed inon other occafions. · c 2.' Many who e:xprefly deny not his Divine Per.fon; yet feem to grow weary -of any conc~rnment therein. ANatural Religion, or non~ at a~, pleafetli t~em bettrer. then Faith ~n , Godby Jefus Chnft. . Jmt any dung more 1s neceffary m Religion, but what Nqtural Light will difcover and toncf.ufr us in, with the Mo,ral Duties O·f R.ighteoufnefs and Hom~fty which it direC-ts unt9'; there are too _many tha:t will not ·ac– knowledge. What i__s-beyon~ the line ofNature and Re.afon is rejeCted as uninte1ligiblemyfl:eries or follies. The Perfon ang Grace ofChrifi are fuppofedto breed all the difiurbance inRdigion. Without them the common notions oftheDi– vine Being and Goodnefs, will guide men fufficiently unto eternal Ble!fednefs. They did fo before the coming ofChrift ~n the.f1efh, and may do fo now he is gone to Heaven. c l~ There are fome who have fo ordered the frame ofobjefrive:Religion,as that it is very uncertain,whether they leave any place for the Perfon of Chrift in it or no~ For befides, their denial of the Hypofiatical Vnion of his Natures, they afcribe all that unto a Light -within them, which God wiUef· feel: only by Chrifi as a Mediator.- What are the internal acl:ings of their minds as unto Faith and Trufi towards him, I know not ; but from their outward Profeffion he feems to be almofl: excluded. D 2 4· There
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