The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

Christianity is such a Believing in Christ, to bring us unto God and everlasting Glory, as maketh the Love of God the very Nature of the Soul, ⟨image 12⟩and thankful obedience its Employment, and a Heavenly Mind and Life to be its Constitution and its Trade; and the Mercies of this Life to be but our Travelling-helps and Provisions for a better; and the Interest of fleshly lust to be esteemed but as dross and dung. Is this the Life which you live, or which you hate? I beseech you Sirs, as you regard the reputation of your Reason, tell us why you will profess a Religion, which you abhor? or why will you abhor a Religion which you profess? why will you Glory in the part of a Parrot, or an Ape, to say over a few words, or move your Bodies, while you detest the humane part, to know and love and live to God? Do you live only to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath, and the revelation of the righteous judgement of God, who will render to every one according to his deeds? Rom. 2.5, 6. Do you profess your selves Christians only for self-condemnation; to be Witnesses against your selves in Judgement, that you wilfully lived unchristian lives? What is there in the World that you are so averse to, as to be seriously that which you profess your selves to be? Who hate you more than those that are that in heart and life, which you call your selves in customary words? or that are serious in the Religion which you say your selves you hope to be saved by? Read Matth. 23.29, 30, 31. why do you honour the dead Saints, and abhor the living? and would make more Martyrs, while you keep Festivals of Commemoration of those that others made? Quae est illa Justitia sanctos collar, & sanctitatem contemnere? Primus gradus Pietatis est Sanctitatem diligere. Chrysost. in Matth. 24. Christ hath not more bitter Enemies in the World, than ⟨image 13⟩some of you who wear his Livery: Turks and Heathens are more gentle to true Christians, and have shed less of their blood than Hypocrite Christians have done. The Zeal of the Pharisees consumed many, whom the Clemency of the Romans would else have spared. Be it known to all the Infidel World, who detest Christianity because of your wickedness, that you are none of us; Christ renounceth you,