Excerpt from The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation, Vol. 1: Defended Against the Objections Contain'd in a Late Book, Intitled, Christianity as Old as the Creation, &C T H US for inflance, I maize no firuple to allow, that seafon, if it he rightlv improv is fufiicient to di/cover all the principles and duties of natural religion; or, that 'tis fufii cient at all times, to teach men all that God requires of them in their various circumflances and have jhewn, that notwith/iandzng this when rea/on is at?) zualiy corrupted and darken' d, a revelation is never the le/s defirable, or ufeful. But if we go farther, and urge the ae'tual corruption of the world as a proof pf the infufiiciency of reafon, in itfelf, to teach men natural religion and morality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.