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THE

PREFACE.

S the following sheets contain reflections whichare the produce

of many years enquiry: so, I hope, my reader will not be surprized, or make it a matter of complaint, if he should find me in one part to differ from myself in another ; but would rather think it strange, if I should not, seeing it is what men of free enquiry are always liable to; because those evidences, which are the ground of their persuasions, are, by such enquiry, liable to be differently perceived by them. A

proper and well-grounded assent to the truth of any propofition, is founded on a perception of the evidence, upon which the truth of that proposition is supposed to depend : and, therefore, as our perception of such evidence is, in many cases, liable to alter and change; that is; what we perceive to be conclusive to day may appear otherwise to morrow; fo our opinions are liable to alter and change likewise. And as I have, in the course of my enquiries, had a strict regard to truth, and this has led me fometimes to differ from myself, by a change of my opinions : fo I am ready to retract and give up my opinion I have embraced or maintained, when such farther evidence shall appear, as renders it just and proper so to do.

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THE

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CONTENT

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To the First VOLUME,

very

TRACT.I.

H E Supremacy of the Father

asserted : Or, eight Arguments

from Scripture to prove, that

the Son is a Being inferiour and

subordinate to the Father, and that the Father alone

is the supreme God. First printed in the Year 1715.

Page 1

Tract. II. The Supremacy of the Fatber vindicated:

Or, Observations on Mr. Claggett's Book, entitled,

Arianism anotomized. Wherein is fewn, that

what Mr. Claggett, and others, call Christ's divine

Nature, is so far from being the real and very Son

of God, that, on the contrary, it is the Fa-

ther of God's Son.

60

TRACT. III. An Appendix, being an Enquiry concern-

ing the Personal Character of the Son of God, and

wbat is necesary to be believed concerning bim; and

likewise into the Sense and Meaning of our Lord's

Words, viz. Except ye believe that I am he, ye

shall die in your fins; as in John viii. 24. 117

Tract. IV. An Enquiry concerning Property, wherein

is considered Liberty of Concience.

125

Tract. V. An Enquiry concerning Sin, in which is

considered Original Sin.

140

TRACT.VI. An Enquiry concerning Juftification. 167

Tract. VII. An Enquiry concerning the Sense and

Meaning of our Lord's Words, viz. Son, thy fins

be forgiven thee; as in Mark ii. 5. 188

TRACT. VIII. An Enquiry concerning Sinners Deliver-

ance from Condemnation; wherein the Case of Christ's

Satisfaction is considered, and impartially stated, ac-

cording to the Scripture Account of it. 194

TRACT.

222

Tract. IX. An Enquiry concerning the Justice of

God.

Tract. X. An Enquiry concerning Infinite Justice,

and Infinite Satisfaction.

242

Tract. XI. An Énquiry concerning Faith and My-

steries: Or, a four-fold Enquiry ; first, what Faith

is; secondly, what the object of Faith is; thirdlys

what a Mystery is ; fourthly, whether a Mystery

is the Object of Faith.

249

Tract. XII. An Enquiry concerning the Use of Rea-

son in matters of Revelation.

261

Tracr. XIII. An Enquiry concerning Prayer 265

Tract. XIV. An Enquiry concerning the Unity, or

Oneness of the Church, 07 Body of Christ. 296

Tract. XV. An Enquiry into that important Questi-

on, Whether Christ is fole King in bis own Kingdom?

r, Whether the Civil Magistrate, or the Pastors in

Christ's Charch, are invested with Authority to rule

Chrift's Subječts, by making Laws to direet their

Behaviour and Conduet in Christ's Service? which

Laws they (viz. Christ's Subjects) are obliged in

Conscience to pay active Obedience to. In a Letter

to a Gentleman.

325

TRACT. XVI. Part of a Letter to another Gentleman,

relating to the foregoing Enquiry.

335

TRACT. XVII. The Previous Question, with Re-

gard to Religion. Humbly offered to be considered,

in order to the Settling and Determining all other

Questions on this Subje£t.

339

Tract, XVIII. Ă Supplement to the Previous

Question, with Regard to Religion, wherein fe-

veral Objections made to the Previous Question are

examined, and in which God's Moral Charakter,

is more fully vindicated. In a Letter to a Friend.