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 Inviibility and Unity of his Nature, and his ole dipoal of Events here below. It precribed a Service or his own immediate Direction; and enforced their Compliance by Promies and Threatnings of uch Temporal Good and Evil, as, by being heretofore erroneouly acribed to fale imaginary Deities, was the very Ground and Support of all the Pagan Idolatry and Supertition. It induced uch Ceremonies, as might at once carry ignificint Intimations of inward Purity, and tand for indelible Marks, whoe Peculiar they were. It led them to, and prepared them for, Chrit and the Myteries of his Bleed Gopel, by uch Emblems and Shadows of better things to come, as, the Corruptions of that Age would admit, and the Condition of that People rendred. practicable and proper: And, Latly, It required, as one indipenable Act of Obedience, that every Man hould frequently meditate upon, diligently read, and be perefctly well vered in, the everal Parts of this Law, that could be uppoed at any time to fall within the Compas of his Practice.

2. The Virtues of Sobriety, Temperance, Chatity, and all the Moral Perfections reducible to That, which Divines ue to ditinguih by the Duty to our elves, were provided for; Not only by thoe Precepts of the Decalogue relating to this matter; (the Reaon and Obligation whereof are Univeral and Perpetual) but alo by several of the Ceremonial Intitutions particular to this People. The Frequency and Solemnity of their Fats, The Prohibition of undry orts of Meats, The Abtinence from Pleaures otherwie lawful and innocent, enjoined upon many Occaions, all tended to correct that Pronenes to Luxury and Exces in enual Enjoyments, o viible in, but withal o injurious to, the preent corrupt State of Humane Nature. All helped to beget a jut Contempt and Detetation of that Licentiounes which inks Men into Brutes; and yet had gained uch Credit with the ret of the degenerate World, as even to be adopted into their Offices of Religion; And o to repreent that their Duty and their Glory, which was in truth the highet Aggravation of their Sin and Reproach. 3. Once