SERMONS ON SOME Or THE P kh, I 1v C I PAL H, E,,A.DS OF THE ebrírsiían 31eYígion. . SERMON L THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD BYTHE LIGHT OF NATURE, TOG&,THEK WITH THE USES OF IT, AND ITS DEFECTS. Acts xiv. 15, 16, 11. The living God which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to'walk in their own ways. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. WHEN the apostle Paul gave authority to his minis-. trations at Lystra, by working a miraculous cure on a. man who was born a cripple, the inhabitants imagined that he and Barnabas were gods, and were immediately, preparing a sacrifice for them ; but to divert this mad ness and superstition of paying divine worship to crea- tures, the apostles, with holy jealousy and indignation, ran into the midst of them, and preached to them the living and the true God. " We, say they, are utterly un- worthy of these divine honours ; for we are men of such flesh and blood as yourselves, and are liable to the like infirmities; we preach to you, that ye should turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven- and earth," &c. From which words we may raise these three distinct observations: VOL. III.
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