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and Gracious God, by reprefenting him as cruel
and tyrannical to his poor Creatures, as one that
defigns and delights in their ei;ersal Ruine ^' It
perfeftly overturns all Religion, by deftroying
the ufe of all Laws, and their Rewards and PunKhments,
to thofe that are fecter'd with the
adamantine Chains of this fatal I>eccec; ^ who according
to the Calvinifts are the greateft part of
Mankind. But while I was in this uncertain and
dangerous Condition, it pleafed God (who Is
infinicely Wife and Good, and will not fuffer that
Religion which he has planted and maintain'db/
his own Almighty Power,, to be check'd in its
progrefs by th^ ignorance or miftak^ of his Mlnifters)
I fay, it pleafed thi$ gc^o^ God to prp^vide
for me fuch a judicious ^nd Ijoneft Guide,
as was very fqccefsful in all things relating to my
Converfion, who propofed >to rnethe Chriftian
Religion in its Surity, without thofe monfirous
Doftrines of Tranfubjlantiatwn^Confubfiantia''
Iwn and ahjolute Fredeftination: A Religion not
embarrafs'd with any of thofe abfurdities which
are maintain'd by the many various Se9:s in Cbfiftendom
: Whereof he gave me a Scheme, lii 4
mathematical Method by way .of Definitions,^
Axioms^ "FoftuktadsAFropflfitiom \ which hie, divided
into two Parts, whereof the firft contains
the Grounds of the Chriftian Religion in general^
the fecond contains the particular Grounds of the
Church o^ England^ as it is a Society diftina;
from all Schifmatical Afleoiblies. And firft, the
Grounds of the Chriftian Religion he proposed in
the following Order, whereby I was, thro' God's
Mercy, deliver'd from the Errors and Superftitions
of my Fagan Religion.
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