which Jefus was to prefide as the fupreme judge: and, for a proof of his divine miffion and authority, he urges his refurrection from the dead. Not a fingle word is said by him of the natural incapacity of men to do any thing which could recommend them to God; nor does he once tell them, that a reliance on the merits or righteousness of Chrift would be fufficient for their falvation: Which, if they had really been fuch capital and effential doctrines of Chrift's religion, as they have fince been represented to be, he certainly, when he was thus preaching the gospel, could not poffibly have omitted.

WHEN St. Peter preached to the Jews, after having healed a lame man in the temple, and reprefented that miracle, which he declared to have been done by the power of Christ, as a proof of his divine mission; he adds, "Repent ye therefore, and be

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ability of discerning the existence and character of the Deity by the mere light of

nature,

In the account which St. Paul gives of himself to Felix the Roman governor, we find the following expreffions: "After the "way which they (the Jews) call herefy, "fo worship I the God of my fathers, be→ "lieving all things which are written in "the law and in the prophets. And have

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"felves also allow, that there shall be a re"furrection of the dead, both of the just and "unjust: and herein do I exercise myself, "to have alway sa confcience void of of, "fence towards God, and towards men." Nor when Felix fent for Paul," to hear "him concerning the faith in Christ," is he represented as faying any thing about the favourite doctrines of some modern systems

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