Severall Nations have severall Gods: Or there are ma∣ny false Gods in the World.
In the 1 Cor. 8.5. There be Gods many, and Lords many. No truth so generally and universally gran∣ted as this: That there is a God; but none so much controverted as who the true God is. Man brings into the World with him notions and sure appre∣hensions of a deity: Education and Custome do spe∣cificate, and shape these generall notions of a GOD, and a Religion; to that God, and into that Religion that the Countrey accounts the true. From hence he that is borne in Turkey is a Mahumetan: In Italie a Papist; in England a Protestant. So soone as Men are borne, they fall a groaping for a God, and for a Religion: One there is, but who, and which wee know not; and that, that is first put into our hands by our Parents and Governours, that we close with∣all. And this is the State and condition of all Men living; the best and dearest Saints of God are thus by nature, and would have beene Turkes, and Papists had