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CHAP. II. Concerning Religion; What it is, and what things are Necessary for the founding and securing its Obliga∣tions.
HAVING in the foregoing Chapter briefly discoursed concerning the Nature of Moral Goodness, and shewn that it is the principal Part of Religion, it will be requisite in the next place to explain what Religion is, that so from thence we may collect what things are necessary to the founding and securing its Obligations, which will be the Subject of the ensuing Chap∣ters.
RELIGION in the General respects God as the Object and Centre of all its Acts and Offices. For upon Supposition that there is such a Being as a God, and that there are such Beings as reasonable Crea∣tures, or capable Subjects of Religion, it will necessarily follow that there must be some Religion or other to tie and oblige these Creatures to that God. For by God we mean a Being that hath all possible Per∣fection