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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
THE TRUTH OF HOLY WRIT;

AND THAT

THE SOCINIAN,

If he expect future Happiness on any other ground than that of
REPENTANCE,

Through an Atonement,

EXPECTS SOMETHING

Contrary to all Probability, Analogy, the Light of Nature, and
the Promises of the Gospel.

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
and Practice agree.

"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-
4 required that the authority of the Legislator should be fully preserved, and no such relaxation be
introduced into government, as might give license or encouragement to offenders."

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
all other Booksellers throughout the Kingdom.

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

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