A Collection of tracts upon the Trinitarian controversy : relating to the right of private judgment, the sufficiency of Scripture, and the terms of church-communion; upon Christian principles; occasion'd by the late Trinitarian controversy . A N EXAMINATION O F -T H E Reflections upon Reafon. SIR, .HE different Opinions andParties into which Man-kind are divided aboutMatters of Religion, ha-ving determined you toattempt the uniting andreconciling them in oneScheme of fpeculative Be--lief, and under one Formof Church-Government ; as I could not butlook upon fuch an Undertaking to be very ex-tra
A Collection of tracts upon the Trinitarian controversy : relating to the right of private judgment, the sufficiency of Scripture, and the terms of church-communion; upon Christian principles; occasion'd by the late Trinitarian controversy . A N EXAMINATION O F -T H E Reflections upon Reafon. SIR, .HE different Opinions andParties into which Man-kind are divided aboutMatters of Religion, ha-ving determined you toattempt the uniting andreconciling them in oneScheme of fpeculative Be--lief, and under one Formof Church-Government ; as I could not butlook upon fuch an Undertaking to be very ex-traordinary, and what no wife Man wouldventure at, without fuitable and very un- C c 4 Gommon. 39^ -^^ Examination of the common Abilities; I thought my felf concernedto examine the Plan you have laid down, andto weigh and conlider it in all its Parts, in or-der to difcover what mutual Relation, Connec-tion, or Dcpcndance, there might be betwixtthe feveral Springs and Movements of this newContrivance. Ihe Refult of which is, thatyour Hypothecs, like all the refl which have beenhitherto coinM for the fame Purpofe, appearsto me to be altogether precarious and infuffi-cient; neither conliftent with itfclf, nor in anywife adjufted or accommodated to the End youpropofe. The fettling all Points of Differencein Ipeculative Belief, and the deciding all Con-troverfies relating to the different Modes,Rights, and Forms of Difcipline, and externalWorfliip, is beyond all Dilpute a Matter ofgreat Difficulty ; and therefore, if any onefhould think it poffible and neceffary, he oughtto go about it with a very nice and diflinguifli-ing Hand, and proceed m a Bufinefs of fuchImportance with great
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