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Conference with a Theift; Containing an Answer to all the most ufual Objections of the Infidels against the Chriftian Religion. In Five Parts. By William Nichols, D.D. The Third Edition, with the Addition of Two Conferences; the one with a Machiavelian, the other with an Atheist All carefully Revis'd, and Prepra'd for the Prefs by the Author. In Two Volumes. Price 12. S.

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N Anfwer to OBADIAH WALKER'S Confiderations on the Spirit of MARTIN LUTHER, and the Original of the Reformation.

The Fierceness of Man shall turn to thy Praife, and the Fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. Pfalm. 76. 10.

By FRANCIS ATTERBURY, D.D. (late) Lord Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster.

Printed at the Theatre at Oxford in the Year 1687, and now Reprinting for JONAH BOWYER at the Rofe in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

The Duty of Praife and Thanksgiving.

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MAT 29. 1692.

PSALM L. 14.
Offer unto God Thanksgiving,

MONG the many Excellen- SER M.

A cies of this picus Collection of Hymns, for which so particular a Value hath been fet upon it by the Church of God in all Ages, this is not

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SERM. the leaft, that the true Price of Duties is there justly stated; Men are call'd off from refting in the outward Shew of Religion, in Ceremonies and Ritual Obfervances; and taught rather to practise (that which was fhadow'd out by these Rites, and to which they were defign'd to lead) found inward Virtue, and Piety.

The feveral Composers of these Hymns were Prophets; Perfons, whofe Bufiness it was, not only to foretel Events, for the Benefit of the Church in fucceeding times, but to correct and reform alfo what was amifs in that Race of Men, with whom they liv'd and convers'd; to preserve a foolish People from Idolatry, and falfe Worship; to rescue the Law from corrupt Gloffes, and fuperftitious Abuses; and to put Men in mind of (what they were fo willing to forget) that Eternal and Invariable Rule, which was before thefe Pofitive Duties, would continue after them, and was to be obferv'd, even Then, in preference to them.

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The Discharge, I fay, of this part of SERM, the Prophetick Office taking up fo much room in the Book of Pfalms; this hath been one reason, among many others, why they have been always fo highly esteem'd; because we are from hence furnish'd with a proper Reply to an Argument commonly made use of by Unbelievers; who look upon all reveal'd Religions, as Pious Frauds, and Impoftures, on the account of the Prejudices they have entertain'd in relation to That of the Jews: The whole of which they first suppose to lie in External Performances, and then easily perfuade themfelves, that God could never be the Author of fuch a mere Piece of Pageantry, and empty Formality, nor delight in a Worship which confifted purely in a Number of odd unaccountable Ceremonies. Which Objections of theirs we fhould not be able thoroughly to anfwer, unless we could prove (chiefly out of the Pfalms, and other Parts of the Prophetick Writings) that the Jewish Religion was fomewhat more than bare Outfidé and Shew; and that Inward Purity, and

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