ANTECEDENTLY to a consideration of the proper
Evidences of Revealed Religion, it cannot be said
with any shew of reason, that it is a thing improbable
in itself that a divine Revelation should be made.
Nothing that we know of the Attributes of God, or
of his Moral Government; nothing that we know
of the Nature and Condition of Man, would make it
appear unfit for God to bestow upon Man an imme-
diate communication of his Will. On the contrary,
the most just and rational notions we can frame of
the providential care of the Deity would lead us to
consider it as entirely suitable to his Attributes and
his Designs, that he should at times impart to his
reasonable creatures, whose whole existence and
destiny are dependent upon Him, supplies of know-
ledge and direction. And on the side of Man, it is
too clear, on a sober review of his condition, that he
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