SECT. VIII. That the Christian religion exceeds all others.

THESE arguments are drawn from matters of fact; we come now to those which are drawn from the nature of the doctrine. Certainly all manner of worship of God must be rejected; (which can never enter into any man’s mind, who has any sense of the existence of God, and of his government of the creation; and who considers the excellency of man’s understanding, and the power of choosing moral good or evil, with which he is endued; and consequently that the cause, as of reward, so of punishment, is in himself); or else we must receive this religion, not only upon the testimony of the facts which we have now treated of, but likewise for the sake of those things that are intrinsical in religion; since there cannot be any produced, in any age or nation, whose rewards are more excellent, or whose precepts are more perfect, or the method in which it was commanded to be propagated more wonderful.