Excerpt from The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation, Shewn From the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World, Vol. 2 of 2: Especially With Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God, a Rule of Moral Duty, and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments; To Which Is Prefixed, a Preliminary Disourse on Natural and Revealed Religion If therefore, upon a fair enquiry, there is at leaft a great prof bability that the Chrifiian Revelation came from God, ir' is both our wifdom and duty to' embrace it, and to govern ourfelves by its excellent rules. No man in that cafe could run a hazard by embracing the Gofpel, or at lead a hazard in any degree equal to what. He would expofe himfelf to by'rejec'ting it. Let' us fuppofe that by complying with the terms of falvation which are there propofed, he fhould deny himfelf fome of thofe'liberties which' he would otherwife indulge, and controul his paflions by the; Chriflian rules, which do not require us to extirpate the pafiions and appetites, but to govern and keep them within the bounds of moderation and temperance, this is no more than the wifef't men have advifed as the propereft way for fecuring a man's own tran quillity, and for preferving body and foul in a right temper. In other cafes, men think it reafonable to hazard fome prefent lofs, and to undergo fome prefent hardfhips and inconveniencies, on? The probable profpeet of avoiding a much greater evil, or procuring fome valuable and fuperior advantage. But when the advantage propofed is (0 infinitely great as the rewards promifed to good men in the Gofpel, and the evils fo great as the punifhments there denounced againft the obftinately impenitent and difobedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.