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tance and Faith in ehrift, they being fo fully and 

 lb often mentioned in the Scriptures, that you can-^ 

 not but know them. And therefore, perhaps, for 

 that Reafon it might be thought by lome impro-* 

 per for me to have faid fo much to you, as I have 

 already upon this pGcafion ; neither fliould I have 

 done it, but that, confidering the Qourfe of youif 

 Life and Aftions, t have juft Reafon to fear, that 

 the Principles of Religion that had been inftilled 

 into you by your Educatton^ have been at leaft 

 corrupted, if not entirely defaced, by the ScepH" 

 cifm Kud hfidelity of this wicked Ag^ i and that 

 what Time you allowed for Study, was rathjer ap*- 

 plied to the Polite Literature^ and the vain PhilofophyoS 

 the Times, than a ferious Search after the Law and 

 iVill of God, as revealed unto us in the Holy 5m/;- 

 tures : For had your Delight been in the Lam of the Lordy 

 and that you had meditated therein Day and Nighty Plal. 

 I. 2. you would then have found that God's Word 

 was a Lamp unto your Feety and a Light to your Path^ 

 Pfal., pp. 105. and that you would account all 

 other Knowledge biit Lofsy in Compaxifon ^of the 

 .ExceBcncy of the J^^^ 3. 8. 



who to them that are called is the Power of Cody and the 

 Wifdom of Gody i Cor. i. 24. even the hidden Wifdom 

 which God ordained before the Worldy Chap. 2.7. 



You would then have efteemed the Scriptures as 

 the Great Charter of Heaven, and which delivered 

 to us not only the moft perfeO: Laws and Rules of 

 Life, but alfo difcovered to us the A£ts of Pardon 

 from God, wherein they have offended thofe righte- 

 ous Laws : For in them only is to be found the great 

 Myftery ot {2i\\en Maii^^ Redemptiony which the Angels 

 defire to look intOy i Pet. i . t 2. 



And they would have taught you that Sin is the 

 debaling of Human Nature y as being a Derivation from 

 that Purity y Re^titudcy and Holinefsy in which God 



created 



