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A58190 A short and plain account of religion for the instruction of families, by being often read in them : recommended especially to those under his charge / by Geo. Raymond ... Raymond, George, A.M. 1700 (1700) Wing R414; ESTC R2514 10,554 15

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we shall be very uneasy upon every Transgression of any of these Laws but find great peace and satisfaction of Spirit in the keeping of ●●em When through the neglect of God and abuse of themselves Depravation of Religion and Corruption of Mankind Men had depraved this Religion by wicked Lives and Idolatrous Worship they became Reprobate in their Minds and vile in their Affections and sunk into a degenerate and forlorn Estate that was as Wretched as it was Sinful Gen. 6.5 Rom. 1.21 26 28. Since our first Parents indulged their Appetite against Reason and so Transgressed the Law of God their Posterity are sunk into Sensuality and by their own unreasonable Inclinations by the wicked Example of others and the Temptations of the World are betrayed into powerful evil Habits which make their return to God and their Duty extreamly difficult When Men become Enemies to God in Temper and Life Paganism they can no longer bear the true Knowledge and Worship of him whereupon wicked Spirits and evil Men take occasion to set up a false Religion that may gratifie such who are departed from the True Such who will not keep God's Laws are yet willing to compound for their Sins by costly Sacrifices and a pompous Service And this gave occasion and rise to Idolatry and that to polytheism or the serving of many Gods and that service was made up of magical Rites and the most unnatural and abominable Customs humane Sacrifices and filthy Mysteries So that Religion whose end is to Unite and Assimulate Men unto God and to perfect their Natures became the Instrument of Mens Alienation and Departure from God and of Debauching and Enslaving their Minds and of filling them with Brutish Lusts and Diabolical Passions Mich. 6.6 7. Rom 1.21 2 Cor. 8.5 Ezek. 16.20 Rom. 1.28 c. This growing impiety God testified against and opposed Patriarchal Religion by the Instructions and Example of those holy Patriarchs whom he raised up by frequent intercourse with Men and special manifestations of his Soveraign Dominion and Power amongst them By the Translation of Enoch who walked with God by the Deluge of the Old World and the signal Destruction of the Sodomites and others who had forsaken God and abused themselves in a most horrible manner These holy Instructions and Examples and Divine Facts were designed to put a stop to the Corruption of Religion and of Men to enforce the Laws of God to encourage the Righteous and to awe the Wicked and to awaken in them a becoming Sense of God and of their Duty But at length God Applyed a most gracious Remedy for the deplorable Condition of lost Men by a Standing Revelation of the true Religion given first by Moses and then by Christ The Holy Scriptures were written by Holy Men moved and guided by the holy Ghost Holy Scriptures and contain a true History and Account of such Divine Facts Messages and Revelations as God saw needful to be transmitted to all Ages of his Church for the Instruction and Benefit thereof 2 Pet. 1.21 2 Tim. 3.16 These Scriptures are the Records of the First Covenant or old Testament that is the Religion which God set up among the Jews by Moses And of the Second Covenant or New Testament i. e. the Religion which God hath set up for all Men by his Son Jesus Christ Heb. 7.8 13. The Ten Commandments are the Substance and chiefest part of God's Covenant with Israel Mosaical Religion and to keep them in the Worship and Obedience of the True God was the design of that Dispensation and the Political and Ceremonial Laws did Minister to the same End and were subservient to the Moral to Effect and Enforce the keeping of them The Rites were such as the Temper of that People and the Circumstances of those times required and they were so many Signs between God and his People Badges of the Servants of the True God and Memorials and Monitors of their Obligations to him God their Creatour their Redeemer and their King dwelt in the midst of them That his Fear might be before their Faces that they might not Sin against him and he sent them Prophets and Preachers of Righteousness and Repentance to reprove and threaten their Disobedience and to perswade them to return to their Duty And by these he foretold the Coming of Christ and the setting up of a better State of Religion by him Now in these last Days God hath spoken unto us by his Son Christian Religion that Divine Person in whom the God-head dwelleth Bodily i. e. really and manifestly who came into the World that he might destroy the Works of the Devil i. e. Idolatry and Immorality that by his Doctrine he might Teach the Laws of God and by his Obedience unto Death vindicate the Honour of them that he might bring in Eternal Righteousness and set up the Kingdom of God by means most proper and fitted for all times and therefore made Perpetual and Unchangeable Heb. 1.2 3. Colos 2.9 1 Joh. 3.8 For he hath taught and assured us in the Name of God The Principles or Doctrine Vnity of God That there is but One God the Creatour of all things and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and thereby condemned Polytheism or the Worship of many Gods Mat. 4.10 1 Cor. 8.6 That God is not to be Worshipped with Sacrifices or by Images True Worship or with the Pomp introduced by Idolatry but with the Natural Acts and Expressions of Divine Honour and proper Tokens of Respect and Reverence and that the best and most acceptable Service of God consists in a holy imitation of him Joh. 4.24 Mat. 5.48 That God who is Propitious in his Nature is reconciled to sinners in his Son Reconciliation whose Obedience unto Death doth worthily vindicate and greatly honour the Laws of God and his voluntary Sacrifice of himself was so well pleasing unto God that he did thereupon enter into a Covenant of Grace and Mercy with Mankind wherein he hath engaged himself to forgive the Sins of those who Believe and Repent and to make them partakers of eternal Life Mat. 5.45 Mark 10.44 John 10.17 Mat. 26.28 That God sent his Son to be the Saviour of the World Glory of Christ and hath appointed him the only Mediatour between God and Man in whom God speaketh unto us and by whom we have access unto God that God hath given him all Power and made him King and Lord of all things That he may be the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Mat. 3.17 1 Tim. 2.5 Joh. 5.22 Mat. 28.18 That this same Lord Jesus shall come in Glory to Judge the World Resurrection and Judgment and shall raise the Dead and shall doom the Wicked to the Damnation of Hell and receive the Righteous into Life Eternal Mat. 25.31 46. John 5.27 28 29. The Doctrine of Christ then Teacheth and his Religion obligeth us to Worship