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ness, and due merit. There is a vast difference 

 betwixt aTup(»/xa and d^Unfxoc, even in Scripture 

 construction. 



The great Turk may justly exult and prune 

 himself in discourses of this nature, if they be 

 once admitted, and ov^ned by Christians : and 

 I shall forbear any longer to think Mahomet an 

 impostor, and must receive the Alcoran for 

 Gospel, if I shall be convinced, that temporal 

 happiness and triumph are a true index of di- 

 vine favour. Our religion hath something more 

 to invite our closure with it ; it proposes a con- 

 veniency on earth, but the crowns and garlands 

 are reserved for Heaven. 



The money-god in Aristophanes,* pretends a 

 command from Jupiter, to distribute as great a 

 largess to the wicked, as the good ; because if 

 Virtue should once impropriate riches, that fair 

 goddess would be more wooed for her dowry, 

 than for her native beauty : so if Religion were 

 attended with those outward allurements that 

 most take the senses ; we should be apt to fol- 

 low Christ for the loaves, and overlook the spi- 

 ritual charms, and more noble ends of Christi- 

 anity. 



The heathen could say,t ' Happy piracy is a 



* In nXarw. 



t Foelix praedo, mundo exempliim inutile. 



