as consistent with Christ's great design and profession! We should then set up the Kingdom of God among men, and be diligent and active in promoting the laws of that kingdom. We should then believe, like Jesus Christ and his apostles, that

there is but One God, the Father Almighty. There is no one good (so commonly called) but one, that is God; or only the one God†. Nullus est bonus nisi unus Deus. Castalio. (And Cant. MS. Clem. Alex. adds, — My Father who is in Heaven.) This is life eternal, to acknowledge thee, O Father, to be the only true GOD‡. It is one God who will justify§. We know that there is none other Gods but one. For to us there is one GOD the Father‖. There is one GOD and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all*. And we should confess one Mediator,—the man Christ Jesus.† We should be consistent, and not throw off those principles upon which christianity was founded, and alone could be first built. We should invite men into our religion, by representing to them the perfection of that primary law of God, reason or natural religion; by declaring the plainness and clearness of it to all attentive and well-disposed minds; and then shew them how worthy it was of the Supreme Governor to give such creatures as he has made us the gospel: that by the religion of favour, he has, with glory to himself, displayed his paternal regard for us, by doing much more than what is strictly necessary for our eternal good. God, on a principle of love, sends his Christ, to advise us and awaken us to a sense of our danger in passing through this world, in case (which

he saw would be the thing) we should not constantly attend to the light we might strike out ourselves with some trouble. He calls us in an extraordinary manner to forsake vice and idolatry, and practise the whole system of morality. We might expect, that a good God, would once at least, interpose by such an extraordinary method as revelation, to turn and incline his reasonable creatures, to the study and practice of the religion of nature. This was acting like the Father of the Universe, considering the negligence and corruption of the bulk of mankind. The reason he gave us, the law of nature, was giving us all that was absolutely necessary. The gospel was an addition of what is excellently useful. What, my beloved