SCEPTICISM CREDULITY: Socinianism IRRECONCILABLE WITH REASON, AND THE SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL. BEING AN ATTEMPT TO SHEW THAT THE SCEPTIC Does in truth admit much greater improbabilities than he who believes in AND THAT THE SOCINIAN, If he expect future Happiness on any other ground than that of Through an Atonement, EXPECTS SOMETHING Contrary to all Probability, Analogy, the Light of Nature, and TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN EXHORTATION To all who believe The pure Doctrines of Christianity, To Zeal, and Consistency in their Conduct; to let their Professions "All are but Parts of one stupendous Whole." Essay on Man. "In carrying on a plan by which forgiveness was to be dispensed to an offending race, wisdom- Blair, Ser: so. vol. iv. page 432. Birmingham, Printed and Sold by W. SUFFIELD, Bull-Street : Sold also by L. B. SEELEY, Fleet-Street, London; and may be had from 1814 BT1210. 835 PREFACE. INFIDELITY, though driven from the At open field, is daily making a thousand covert attacks; whilst the Socinians, who wage a bolder warfare, leave untried no measure which may spread their conquests, and add to the number of their forces. such a moment, it must appear desirable to all who reverence the established church, that those of her members, whom secular engagements leave but little time for religious meditation, should be furnished with arguments, short, plain, and cogent, in favour of the doctrines which they profess. It is not too much to affirm, that the members of the establishment are, generally, less informed on subjects of religion, and less skilful in maintaining their own particular tenets, than Socinians are in defending their The University of Iowa LIBANES |