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But the Business cf the Gospel is quite ofanother Nature, directed to the attainmentof Ends that are quite of another kind ;nay, is Ib far from it, that it tells its Dis-ciples they must not expect the Splendor ofthis World , but must neglect, deny, andcontemn it ; that instead thereof, theymust expect persecution, neglect, and con-tempt, from the World : and accordinglyit succeeded to them, especially in the firstand purest Ages of the Christian Church.

2. In that the Means and Instruments ofits Promulgation to the World, were themost disproportion’d to a politick humaneContrivance, and the most unlikely in allhumane Appearance to attain its End orAcceptation with the World : Had the E-vangelical Oeconomy been the Product of aConsultation of a Conclave of LearnedRabbi’s, or of deep Philosophers, or ofPolitick or Wise States-men, possibly itmight have given an Occasion to the restof the World to have said or thought, thatit is true indeed, it is a well-polished Systemof a Religion, but yet it carries a Suspicionwith it, of a humane Contrivance, consi-dering what Wise Men were emyloyed inthe digesting or promulgation of it.

But the glorious God to prevent any pos-sible Surmises in the Minds of Men, of this

I z kind.