. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. nceabove Works. of Faith The Fear of God, the Great Prefervative againft Nature, Grounds, and EfFefls of Chriftian Obedience the only fure Token of being endued with the Love of Order and Conne£lion of Our Saviours End and


. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. nceabove Works. of Faith The Fear of God, the Great Prefervative againft Nature, Grounds, and EfFefls of Chriftian Obedience the only fure Token of being endued with the Love of Order and Conne£lion of Our Saviours End and Defign of Chrifts giving himfelf for Chriftian Infufficiency of mere Rea- fon, in Matters of Example a Means and Motive to Chriftian Fruit and EfFe£l of Divine. a Religious Principal Parts of Chriftian Perfeflion. By S A M u E L Johnson, A. M. Vicar of Great-1orrington^ in Devonfhire. Printed for C. R i v i n g t o n, at the Bible and Crown in StaPf7«/s Churfh-Tard. Price Ten Shillings Bound, TO T H E Right Reverend Father in GOD EDMUND Lord BISHOP L 0 ND 0 N. My LoRD^ [HE Sermons contain-ed in this Volumehaving been preachedby your Permiffion^and two of them^which had the Ho-nour of your Prefence, having hadthe greater Honour of your Appro- a bation. DEDICATION. bation alfo^ are now come in mofthumble wife to prefent themfelvesto your Lordfhip in anfwer to theQueftion you were pleafed to ask me^whether I deiigned them for thePrefs. Which Queftion I would ingreat Modefty interpret^ as a fort ofa Command. The three Firft are printed withvery few Additions^ but upon read-ing feveral Pieces lince written inthe Caufe of Infidelity and finding Ihad leifure enough to write and keepp^ce with the Prefs I have greatlyenlarged the Others^ and taken intoConfideration feveral Points^ whichhave been lately advanced, or ratherbrought over^ and over again; for Ican fee Nothing, but the Old Cavilsrevived; and there appea


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