Sidebilder
PDF
ePub
[merged small][ocr errors]

A

DEFENCE

Of the PECULIAR

INSTITUTIONS and DOCTRINES

O F

CHRISTIANITY.

In Answer to a late PAMPHLET,

ENTITLED,

DEISM fairly Stated and fully Vindicated from the grofs Imputations and groundless Calumnies of modern Believers.

LONDON:

Printed by Edward Owen in Warwick Lane. 1746.

[ Price One Shilling. ]

A DEFENCE of the Peculiar Inftitutions and Doctrines of CHRISTIANITY.

To the Author of Deifm, &c.

SIR,

T is but Reafon and Justice that every Opinion should be reprefented in strict Conformity to Truth, such as it really is in its own Nature; neither better, nor worfe But there is a manifest Difference between ftating a Cafe, and pleading for it; between vindicating an Opinion from unjust Censure, and undertaking univerfally to maintain it against all Oppofition.

[ocr errors]

The Title of your Letter promifes nothing farther than to ftate Deifm fairly, and to vindicate it fully, from the grofs Imputations and groundless Calumnies of modern Believers'

A

;

but

but the Contents of your Letter exceed thefe Bounds, and extend fo far, as not only to state, and vindicate Deism from grofs Imputations and groundless Calumnies, but also to recommend it, in Preference to ChriftiaP. 98. nity, as the Religion most agreeable to the Divine, most fuitable to, and worthy of the Human Nature. Before you have finished Twelve Pages, you are entering upon what (you confels) you intended, namely, the propofing your Difficulties with regard to ChrifP. 12. tianity, by making your Objections to its Doctrines and Inftitutions; Objections which to you appear insolvable.

P. 3.

Ibid.

This is a more extensive Subject than you proposed at first; This is a Matter of general Concern and Importance, to All that believe the Chriftian Religion; not only to thofe that are accufed of having mifreprefent-, ed the Opinions of the Deifts, but to thofe alfo that are willing to do them Justice in this' Refpect, but yet cannot admit that their Opinions, as oppofed to the Truth and Evidences of the Chriftian Revelation, are well grounded, or the Arguments they alledge to this Purpofe conclufive.

Leaving therefore your Complaints to the Perfons complained of; and the Defence of Dr. Benfon's Reasonings to their Author; I fhall attempt, as a candid Interpreter of other Mens Principles and Actions, (as a confiftent Chriftian, and an honest Man, in the fame

Perfon)

« ForrigeFortsett »