An essay on religion demonstrating that God's being and existing as a Trinity in Unity, and his attributes, are self-evident .or plain reasons for believing the great mysteries of the true Christian relition ..introduced by a ..dissertation on thought ... . Truth. ^ND 7 think it to he the only Way^ or^ how-eter^ the heft. JVay^ to lay afide the unreafina-ble and imchriftian Ferments^ and veedlefsT)ifputes^ that are at this Time imjuftly^ im^ pru rije PREFACE. pnicJeiitlw impolhically raisd.^ in MensMinds, to the T^rejudice of Truths and Uif-turhcince of good Qojernment; and to the Tian-g
An essay on religion demonstrating that God's being and existing as a Trinity in Unity, and his attributes, are self-evident .or plain reasons for believing the great mysteries of the true Christian relition ..introduced by a ..dissertation on thought ... . Truth. ^ND 7 think it to he the only Way^ or^ how-eter^ the heft. JVay^ to lay afide the unreafina-ble and imchriftian Ferments^ and veedlefsT)ifputes^ that are at this Time imjuftly^ im^ pru rije PREFACE. pnicJeiitlw impolhically raisd.^ in MensMinds, to the T^rejudice of Truths and Uif-turhcince of good Qojernment; and to the Tian-ger of the piihlick Peace and Tranquility, For withont the only injallihk Teji ofTruth, tLhich feems to he too generally ccer-lookd; ^D:fputes nnazoidahly increafe,and he endlcfs; and no Certainty c^what moftconcerns our Temporal Wei fare, and EternalHappinefs, can any other ITay, or hy anyother Means he found,_ And 1 cannot dcuhthut that this EJfay, hy Gods Blejfing, willanj-j^er the Bnd for xhich it is defignd;*j)hich is to diftinguijlj Truth from Error^that fo all may hold the Faith in Truth ,• andmake one Sheepfold under the great Shepherdcf cur Souls, theLord]e{\isChrifli v:hichisthe fencer e and Fjarnefi T>iJirc of Thiloveritas. [ix]. • latroduclion. l^he ^uTHOK fiids it iiecefjhry to acquahtthe Reader^ that although the Firji Edi^tion of the BJfay zias ucell apprczed of, bymany Ingenious Qcntkmen^ and Tions Chrif-tians j yet he perceizes that the Title be-ginning with Free-thinking, has made ma-ny good Chriftians take it for an Jthsiftical^Performance: For i^hich Reafon, he hasalter djhe Title^ and prefix d the folkW^ing IntrodttUion to the Effay, p^S^P^ O D whofe Eternal and Immenfe Be-»—i^^ ing is purely Spiritual, and the mollGJ^^ pure Spirit , mult needs be ^M to us, whilft our fpiritual Souls arc^^^^ inclofed in elemental Bodies; But hehas made all his wondrous, glorious Works, in-contellible Evidences ofhis Being, and of his At-tributes
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