Excerpt from Village Sermons, or Sixty-Five Plain and Short Discourses on the Principal Doctrines of the Gospel, Vol. 2: Intended for the Use of Families, Sunday Schools, or Companies; Assembled for Religious Instruction in Country Villages All religion supposes the worship of a God; and therefore, in all worship, the first thing to be consi dered is, who that God is 3 or what sort of a being is to be worshipped. The Heathens worshipped: a' great many gods; as many as thirty thousand have beeh mentioned But all Christians admit that there is but ons only, the living and true God. Now all the knowledge we have of God is from the Scriptures. If God had not been pleased to give us the Bible, we should to this day have been wor shipping idols, as the former inhabitants of this country did, and as many millions of Pagans now do. Reason, alone, never yet led any people to the right knowledge of God, nor ever will. The learned Greeks and wise RO mans knew no more of God than the savage Indians. The knowledge of God which Noah and his sons had was gra dually lost and corrupted. But God made himself known in a particular manner to Abraham, and to his posterity the Jews: among whom the knowledge of the true God was preserved till the time of Christ, and now, by his Gos pel, this knowledge is given to us, and to all who receive the Scriptures as the word of God.. 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.