Excerpt from True Religion Delineated, or Experimental Religion: As Distinguished From Formality on the One Hand, and Enthusiasm on the Other, Set in a Scriptural and Rational Light; In Two Discourses

He did not lead the Children of Ifrael direitly from Egypt to Canaan, hut filfi thro' the Red Sea, and then out into a there was neither Water, nor Bread nor Fly/h 3 and made them wander there forty 2 ears, that he might try them, and'prove them, and know what was in their Hearts. Dent. 8. A. So when the Chriftian Religion was introduced into the World, it was not in fuch a Way as Men would have cho/ien, hut in a Manner failed to a State of T rial. The son OF god did not come in outward Glory, hut in the Eorm of a Servant notto reign as an earthly Prince, but to die upon the Croft and his Apo/lles made but a mean Ap pearance in the Eyes of the World and that Set't was every where jpohen again/l, andperficuted and many were the Stum bling-block} of the Times. The]? Things were tostry the Temper of-rm'anhind. And when Chri/lian Churches were erec'led hy the indefatigable Labours of St. Paul and others, that God might thoroughly try every Heart, he not only fufiered the wit/fed W cold to rife in Arms again/l them, hul alfo let Satan loofe, to transform him/elf into an Angel of Light, and, as it were, to infpire, and [end forth his Mulften, trans formed into the Apojlles of Chrifl, to vent heretical Doctrines and foment Strife and Divifion. In the mean while, the fecure and withed ll/orld loolced on, plea/2d, no douht, to flee their Behotes and Divifions, and glad they cauld have fuch a Handle again/l. Chriitianity, 65 fit good a Plea to jujlzfy their fizfidelity. A'nd God delighted to have fiances fo perfeiily well adapted. To a State bf Trial. He loved to try the zipoji'les, to fee how they mad he afic'zed and all 3 when not only the World was in 'jirmspagainfi them, hut niany of their own Converts turned to he their Enemies too, hy the Influeme of fal/ze Teachers. He loved 'to' try. Private Chrijtians, to fee how their-hearts would he afefied towards: the Truths of the. Gofioel, and the true. M'inzfiers of Chri/l, and?

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