properly Judaifm) had its Completion by the coming of Chrift. But the natural Law, being the eternal Law of God, hath never ceased, nor can ever cease, but must make an effential Part of every Religion that is truly fo. We have therefore only to fee in what refpect Christianity ftands diftinguished from mere Natural Religion; for that mere Natural Religion is not the Whole of Christianity, is molt evident. When Jefus was preaching in Judea, we read, that there came one running, and kneeled to him, and ofked, Good Mafier, What Shall I do, that I may inherit eternal Life? Here is, in the first Place, a Profession of his Belief in God, and his Expectations of a future State, which are the two grand Points of Natural Religion; and if you will at tend to what follows, you will find he wanted nothing of a common Virtue. For when Jefus faid - Thou knowef the Commandments, do not commit Adultery, do not kill, do not fleal, do not bear falfe Witness, defraud not, honour thy Father and Mother; he readily answered, All thefe Things have I observed from my Youth. Our Saviour difputes not this Matter with him, but replies, ONE Thing thou LACKEST, go thy Way, fell whatsoerver thou haft, and give to the Poor, and thou shalt have Treafure in Heaven, and come take up the Cross, and FOLLOW ME, Mark x. 17, &c. The Intention of our Saviour in this Anfwer, was to tell him, that allowing him to be the righteous Man he fuppofed himfelf to be, he could not be faved without becoming his Difciple. This was the one Thing he lacked. What was he to get by it? If nothing, it was a moft unreafonable Demand upon him, to purchase nothing at fo great an Expence: For he was to fell all he had (even great Potions) and give to the Poor; he was to take up the Cross, and follow Christ. Some Advantage therefore, fome Intereft in God to fecure to him the Hopes of a better Life must be fuppofed to be held forth to him, in his being called upon to follow Christ. There is another Pallage in Scripture which comes to the fame Point. Cornelius. a Centurion, a devout Man, and one that feared God with all his Houfe-faw in a