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under the foregoing heads, is communicated toil 

 from heaven. 



When we observe, 1. The more particular and 

 full discoveries of those relations we had some know- 

 ledge of by the light of nature,* and, 2. Those re- 

 lations we bear to God, and God to us, which are 

 entirely new, and undiscoverable by the light of 

 nature ; this knowledge includes the foundation and 

 substance of all revealed religion. 



As to the first. When to that general knowledge 

 we have by the light of nature, of God, as the crea- 

 tor of all things, it is revealed, That he spoke 

 them into being, and created them ly his word; 

 that he made man in particular out of the earth, and 

 breathed into him a principle of a higher kind ; that 

 he was created in innocence, and in the image of God; 

 and that from him all mankind descended. 



Again. When to the general relation of his pro- 

 vidence over us, it is more particularly revealed, 

 That he upholdeth all things by the Word of his 

 power ; that in Him we live, move, and have our 

 leing ; that not a sparrow falls to the ground with- 

 out Him ; nay, that the hairs of our head are all 

 numbered; and, lastly, when his relation to us, as a 

 Judge, is rendered more full and express by these 

 particulars, that the eyes of the Lord are in every 

 place, beholding the evil and the good; that He shall 

 firing every work into judgment, with every secret 

 thing, whether it be good or evil ; that He hath ap- 



* I believe all < the lights of nature," so caTled > to flow 

 fiom preventing Grace. 



