35. Though the behaviour of all the rest of the world, till Christ's coming be little notified to us, yet this much is sure, that they were commonly more Ignorant and Idolatrous than the Jews, that yet they retained the common notices of nature; that they remembered by Tradition those intimations of the necessity of propitiatory Sacrifice, so as to keep up the custom of Sacrificing among them: That many of them with exceeding diligence sought to find God, or know him in the works of Nature and Providence, and attained to great and excellent understanding, especially in Greece and Rome: And many of them lived very strict austere and laborious lives, in great Justice and Love, and in the practice of many excellent Precepts towards God: For the Heavens declared the Glory of God, and the firmament showed his handy-work: Day unto day uttered speech, and night unto night showed knowledge; There was no speech or language where their voice was not heard: Their li•e went through the earth, and their words to the worlds end, Psal. 19. 1, 2, 3, 4. For all Gods works do praise him, and the Lord is good to all, his tender mercies are over all his works: Psal. 145. 9, 10, 17. He is King in all the earth. He was not the God of the Jews only, but of the Gentiles also. Rom. 3. 29. Because that which may be known of God was manifest in (or to) them, for God had showed it to them. For the invisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made: his Eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, Rom. 1. 19, 20, 21. God left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave men rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness, Act. 14. 15, 16. Seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things, and hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after ⟨p. 37⟩him and find him: though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live and move and have our being; For we are also his off-spring, Act. 17. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek;
35. Though the behaviour of all the rest of the world, till Christ's coming be little notifyed to us, yet this much is sure, that they were commonly more Ignorant and Idolatrous than the Jews, that yet they retained the common notices of nature; that they remembred by Tradition those intimations of the necessity of propitiatory Sacrifice, so as to keep up the custom of Sacrificing among them: That many of them with exceeding diligence sought to find God, or know him in the works of Nature and Providence, and attained to great and excellent understanding, especially in Greece and Rome: And many of them lived very strict austere and laborious lives, in great Justice and Love, and in the practice of many excellent Precepts towards God: For the Heavens declared the Glory of God, and the firmament shewed his handy-work: Day unto day uttered speech, and night unto night shewed knowledge; There was no speech or language where their voice was not heard: Their li•e went through the earth, and their words to the worlds end, Psal. 19. 1, 2, 3, 4. For all Gods works do praise him, and the Lord is good to all, his tender mercies are over all his works: Psal. 145. 9, 10, 17. He is King in all the earth. He was not the God of the Jews only, but of the Gentiles also. Rom. 3. 29. Because that which may be known of God was manifest in (or to) them, for God had shewed it to them. For the invisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made: his Eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, Rom. 1. 19, 20, 21. God left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave men rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness, Act. 14. 15, 16. Seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things, and hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after ⟨p. 37⟩him and find him: though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live and move and have our being; For we are also his off-spring,