A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

By the Christian Interest, I am far from meaning that of a Party. But what every one must take ⟨p. 201⟩for Christianity, that will acknowledge there is any such thing. And for the support of that, in the most principal Doctrines, and Laws of it, what is our prospect?

To go down here somewhat lower.

Let us suppose a rational susceptibleness, or capacity of Religion, to be the difference of Man, wherein the Controversy may seem to admit of being compromised; whether it be Religion, alone, or Reason, alone, of which this must be said, that it distinguishes Man from the Inferior Creatures. And let it be Reason, with this addition, an aptness (suspicere numen) to be imprest with some Religious Sentiment, or to conceive of, and adore, an Original Being. The wise, and mighty Author, and Cause of all things. And now, how near ⟨p. 202⟩akin are Religion, and Humanity

Let us suppose a rational susceptibleness, or capacity of Religion, to be the difference of Man, wherein the Controversie may seem to admit of being compromis'd; whether it be Religion, alone, or Reason, alone, of which this must be said, that it distinguishes Man from the Inferiour Creatures. And let it be Reason, with this addition, an aptness (suspicere numen) to be imprest with some Religious Sentiment, or to conceive of, and adore, an Original Being. The wise, and mighty Author, and Cause of all things. And now, how near ⟨p. 202⟩akin are Religion, and Humanity