Reasonable religion. Or, The truth of the Christian religion, demonstrated. The wisdom of its…

[…] to act more like a Beast, than like a Man, for any man to sin against the God that made him. If men would show themselves men, they would not allow themselves in those things that are contrary to and condemned by the Religion of the Lord Jesus Christ.

〈…〉 to act more like a Beast, than like a Man, for any man to sin against the God that made him. If men would shew them•elves men, they would not allow themselves in those things that are contrary to and condemned by the Religion of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Indeed some were once blamed, in • Cor. 3.•. for Walking as men; but the meaning of it was, Walking as men commonly Walked; not Walking as men should walk, if they would show themselves men: They who Walk as Carnal men, and Sensual men, do not act as Rational men. Sin is an Unmanly sort of a Thing. 'Tis Beneath a man, to sin against the most High God. By living in Sin, men debauch and debase themselves below men. 'Tis Reason, whereby a Man ⟨p. 7⟩is distinguished from a Beast; Sin is repugnant unto the principles of that Reason, by which the Almighty hath given us our Distinction. In Sin men offer violence unto the principles of Reason. Though a man that Errs does like a Man, as man has now unmanned himself, yet men don•t show themselves men in their Errors, that is to say, Reasonable men. Peccare est, ins••r pecudum Errare.

Indeed some were once blamed, in • Cor. 3.•. for Walking as men; but the meaning of it was, Walking as men commonly Walked; not Walking as men should walk, if they would show themselves men: They who Walk as Carnal men, and Sensual men, do not act as Rational men. Sin is an Unmanly sort of a Thing. 'Tis Beneath a man, to sin against the most High God. By living in Sin, men debauch and debase themselves below men. 'Tis Reason, whereby a Man