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tial views of things, must then be confidered as falfe and abfurd.-Rejecting the fureft guides of human reason, he wanders through the labyrinths of History as chance directs, refting only in thofe places which appear to favour his fyftem; and, like the fly upon the beautiful Corinthian pillar, fees nothing but diforder and confufion. The Chriftian, on the contrary, fteadily following the clue which Religion offers, obferves the connexion of the parts, and their relation to the vaft, the wonderful Plan, which reaches from the creation of the World, to its final deftruction -from Earth to Heaven! Raifed to the lofty ftation to which Revelation only can conduct him, he furveys as in a widely extended profpect, the paft and prefent hiftory of the world" His eyes are opened," and his conceptions are elevated and enlarged by admiration, gratitude, and hope, while he beholds the Nations of the earth that have carried on, and are now fulfilling the great defigns of God with respect to his chosen people and the Rcligion of Chrift. He fees the most apparently trivial as well as the most signal events made fubfervient to the triumph of true Religion, and the eternal welfare

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of mankind; and the viciffitudes of hu man life-the vice, the folly, and the mifery of man-as tending to one glorious object under the conduct of Infinite wisdom, goodness, and power. He furveys the transitory glory of antient and of modern ftates, the boafted monuments of art, the attainments of learning, the powers of genius, the light of fcience, and the various employments of human life, not as fubjects of useless fpeculation, but with a reference to that particular end, which, whether they are collectively or feparately confidered, gives an unspeakable importance to them all:-Collectively, as they form one fublime system of order in the Divine appointments-one long feries of difpenfations-of which we may obtain fufficient knowledge to enlarge our capacity, to excite our wonder and ado ration, to quicken our fense of dependence upon a wife and gracious Providence, and to warm and purify our hearts with fentiments of piety, and of zeal to promote the honour of God by labouring for the real interefts of his creatures, and by "walking in all his commandments blameless :”—And Separately, as they influence the fate of rational and account

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able beings, fallen from their first estate of innocence and immortality-restored to hope of future happiness by the marvellous work which has accomplished their Redemption; and urged to the performance of duty in this short probationary life by the affurance of Divine affiftance, and by the promise of that Eternal reward which is held out to every man for his rejection or acceptance, without any respect to his rank or fituation-his great or little fphere of action;-fince the final allotment of happinefs and glory is made to depend wholly (through the merits of our Redeemer) upon his performance of the part affigned to him upon the theatre of life, whether he be a "hero or a ferving man," a Sovereign or a Slave.

Let ALL, then, who bear the name of CHRISTIANS, Confider the real dignity of the character, and "walk as children of the light amidst a crooked and perverfe generation, looking for the glorious appearing of their Lord." Let those who remain unconvinced of the truth of Revelation by the evidence derived from PROPHECY, remember, that many other unanswerable proofs may be drawn from other

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Let them examine the various arguments prefented by the INTERNAL EVIDENCE of the SCRIPTURES. Let them pursue the opening path of ORIENTAL LITERATURE, and confider with particular attention the Chaldean sphere, recording, as it were, the earlieft annals of the world first written in the HEAVENS'. Then let them fearch the EARTH for teftimony, for the earth itself bears constant witness to the truth of the Mofaic Hif tory. What fhall I fay more? "IF THEY WILL NOT" then

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HEAR MOSES AND

THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE
PERSUADED, THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM

THE DEAD."

See Maurice's Hift. and Antiq. of India.

• See De Luc's Letters on Geology, Howard on the Structure of this Globe, &c.

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ADDEND A.

NOTE to vol. ii. p. 64. 1. 17. at 758. The ingenious explication of the seventh and eighth horn of the Beaft given in the Letter from the "Layman" which I have already noticed, appears to receive confirmation from these opinions refpecting the Rife and the Eftablishment of the Papal Antichrist at different periods of time and difplays in a very striking manner, the accuracy of the Prophecies, and the found principles of interpretation, which have directed thefe excellent Commentators in their pursuit after truth.

Note to vol. ii. p. 274. l. 17. and p. 366. 1. 24. The following extract from a Thanksgiving Sermon, for Victories obtained by the British arms, preached Nov. 9, 1759, by Bishop Warburton, is particularly recommended to the attention of the Reader.

"God, for the great ends of his univerfal Providence, infcrutable to us, was pleased to station his favoured creature man in a world abounding with natural and moral evil.

"But this gracious God, whose mercies are over all his works, hath, as a curb and check to thefe evils, which it is man's duty as well as interest to oppose, and his merit as well as happiness to subdue, inftituted two capital ordinances, Civil Government, and Religion: fupports as neceffary for the moral world, as the Sun and Moon for the natural; the one to fuftain and cheer us in this vale of miferies; the other to direct our benighted footsteps towards the happier regions of light and immortality.

"We may be certain therefore, that the fame Provi

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