vain Confidence of the Indulgence of God, commit or purpose the least injury to man: He performs all his Duties to God in Sincerity, Integrity and Constancy; and while he lives on Earth, his Conversation, his Hopes, his Treasure, and the Flower of his Expectation is in Heaven; and he entirely endeavours to walk suitably to such a Hope. In Sum, it restores the Image of God unto the Soul in Righteousness and true Holiness._ I prevail'd upon one of my Friends, a _Deist_, to read those three Letters, because therein the Substance of the Christian Religion is distinguish'd from the Circumstantials and Appendages; for want of which distinction being well understood, _Deism_ has arose, as that great Man in the fore-cited Letter hath observed. _When Men_ (says he) _see so much Religion placed by Professors of Christianity in these things which every intelligent Man values but as Forms, or Inventions, or Modes, or Artifices, and yet as great weight laid upon them, as great fervour and animosity us'd for or against them, as almost for any Points of Christian Religion; They are apt presently to censure and throw off all Religion, and reckon all of the same make._ Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of 'em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he had distinguished between Religion and Priest-craft: And he added, If you will shew me, Sir, any Christian Church where that distinction is observed, I will become a Member of it. I recommended the Church of _England_; he presently told me that he had read the 39 Articles, and observed that 3 of them were wholly design'd to uphold the Power of the Clergy over the People. And then he had me only compare the _Design_, which has been, and still is, carrying on under the Name of the Church of _England_, with the Design of the Christian Religion, as 'tis described by Sir _Matthew Hale_; and I should find the one in all its parts a Contradiction to the other. 'Tis plain (_said he_) the Clergy do not allow of Sir _Matthew_'s Notions, nor will they suffer us to take any thing for Religion, that is distinguished from their particular Interest. To what end have so many Persecutions and Penal Laws been set a foot by the Clergy in Christendom? was it to bring Men to any one Point of that full Description of Christian Religion, which you cited from Sir _Matthew Hale_? or only to bring them to that short Article of their Clergy Religion, _i.e._ to submit to their Power? Did not the Honourable Sir _R. H._ lately write a Treatise, wherein with great Learning and accurate Judgment he distinguished betwixt Religion and Priest-craft? and was he not treated for it with a true Priestly Insolence and Malice in the Pulpit at _White-hall_, by _A._ one of their Majesties Chaplains, and represented as a Scorner and an Atheist, because he scorns to submit to any Religion but what is of Christ's Institution? Suppose a Man should govern himself by the Law of _Christ_, and go no further, is