The Designs of the Christian Religion run betwixt these four heads: The first is, to give us right apprehensions of the Nature and Attributes of God, that we may conceive aright of him, and adore him sutably to his Nature, and according to his Will, and thereby be admitted to a free converse with him, and become par∣takers of the Divine Nature. How little of God was known by the twinklings of Natures Light, even to the better and wiser part of the World, Tullies Books of the Nature of the Gods do sufficiently inform us? But if the Philosophers were so much to seek in it, what shall we expect from the Vulgar? And indeed Homers Iliads, and Ovids Metamorphosis, were wretched Systems of Divinity; and yet such, and such like, were the sentiments of the Nations about the Godhead. It is true, the seed of Abraham were delivered from that darkness, and knew God by his Name Iehovah, and had Laws and Ordi∣nances given them by God; yet their Worship was so carnal, and did so strike upon, and affect the senses, that we will 0