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FOR

FREE BELIEVING:

A REVIEW

OF

REV. MR. AUSTIN'S NINETEEN ARGUMENTS,

IN A DEBATE WITH REV. MR. HOLMES, HELD IN
DECEMBER AND JANUARY, 1847-8.

BY S. COMFORT.

He that is first in his own cause, seemeth just; but
his neighbor cometh and searcheth him.-SOLOMON.

AUBURN:

W M. J. MOSES.

1853.

BX

97466

.065

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by SILAS COMFORT,

In the Clerk's Office for the Northern District of New York.

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reface.

THE Debate between the Rev. Messrs. Holmes and Austin having been several years before the public, its merits have been decided long before the date of this Review-a question which it is not our object, as a whole, either to discuss or determine-except in so far as we shall take occasion to inquire into the logical character of the questions debated, and the true relations of the parties in debate, to each other.

Having stated our views on these points, with the reasons on which they are based, the comparative strength and cogency of the arguments adduced in debate by Rev. Mr. Holmes, are questions to be decided by the respective readers of the "Debate" itself.

The reader will find, in the following pages, a full, candid, and specific Review of Mr. Austin's "NINETEEN ARGUMENTS," in favor of what we have chosen to denominate the final moral parity of all mankind. As Mr. A had the affirmative of the second question— the grand question in debate-and as the burden of

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