AN ARGUMENT FOR THE TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY, IN A SERIES OF DISCOURSES. BY I. D. WILLIAMSON, NEW YORK: P. PRICE & CO., NO. 2, CHATHAM SQUARE. STEREOTYPED BY REDFIELD AND LINDSAY. ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by P. PRICE & Co., in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. AUG 11 1919 PREFACE. THE author of these discourses has long seen with regret, a spirit of scepticism at work in community, and strong exertions making to destroy faith in the gospel of Christ. Being "set for the defence of the gospel," he has deemed it a privilege and a duty, to labour both in public and in private, to deepen men's convictions of the inestimable value and substantial truth of Christianity. He has not been an inattentive observer of the efforts of infidels and their mode of warfare. In former times it was an object with them to array science against the gospel, and hence they assumed at least a show of learning. This attempt has been thwarted, and by many able works it has been made to appear that every discovery of genuine science is in harmony with Christianity. Within a few years past their mode of warfare has changed. The schools are not now the objects of their attacks. They have left the schools and gone to the "common people," and the leading object now appears to be, to array reason against religion. Under these circumstances the author has thought that it would be useful to make an effort to meet them here, and show |