CHRISTIAN RELIGION, ILLUSTRATED AND PROVED BY SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY, AS FORETOLD BY MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, AND FURTHER ILLUSTRATED BY JESUS AND HIS APOSTLES, SAYING, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have BY JOHN LOCKE. Unire, Lomantic BOSTON: PRESS OF J. HOWE, No. 39, MERCHANTS ROW. 1843. BT 66 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by JOHN LOCKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court in Massachusetts. TO THE READER THE Compiler would be most happy if he could engage the candid attention of the reader to the important contents of the following pages. But he is most earnest in his wishes that every person into whose hands the following work may fall, would examine it carefully and impartially, and not pronounce judgment against it, till he has, in sincerity and good conscience, deliberately considered its various and interesting matter. Our Lord cautioned his disciples to take heed how they heard; and surely there is the same necessity in our days, to take heed how we read, lest on the one hand we should close hastily and incautiously with every new doctrine presented to us, and on the other hand should reject every one, merely because it seems at first reading to controvert our pre-conceived opinions. The compiler is not ashamed to confess his entire confidence in the doctrines which he here presents to the public. He is happy also to find, that he is not quite singular in his sentiments, but that many others both learned and unlearned, bear testimony to the same truths. He thought it his duty, therefore, to endeaver to make known to his fellow creatures, what he has found to be so profitable to himself; and he will venture to affirm, that the reader will find nothing in this work, but what will have a ten |
