TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKET. IN placing at the head of these sheets, a name, to which the respect and the admiration of the Public have attached so much celebrity; and in avowing, at the same time, that I have selected the name of a Friend, with whom I have been united, almost from childhood, in the closest habits of intimacy; I am aware, that I subject myself to the imputation of acting as much from a motive of pride, as from a sentiment of affection. I admit the imputation to be wellfounded. To enjoy the happiness of such a Friend, and not to exult in the possession, would be not to deserve it. It is a pride, which, I trust, may be indulged in without blame: and the distinction of having been associated with a character, so transcendently eminent for private worth, for public virtue, and for intellectual endowments, I shall always regard as one of the most honourable circumstances of my life. But, independently of these considerations, the very nature of my subject supplies a reason for the choice which I have made. For I know not, in truth, to whom I could, with greater propriety, inscribe a work, whose chief end is to expose false reasoning and to maintain true religion, than to one, in whom the powers of just reasoning are so conspicuously displayed, and by whom the great principles of religion are so sincerely. reverenced. With these views, I trust, that I shall stand excused by you, my dear Sir, in have ing, without your knowledge, thus availed myself of the credit of your name. The fole lowing treatise, in which so many additions have been made to a former publication, as in some measure to entitle it to the appellațion of a new work, I submit to your judge ment: well satisfied, that if it meet your approbation, it will not find an unfavourable reception from the public. I am, my dear Sir, With the truest attachment, THE AUTHOR. Trinity College, Dublin, Sept. 21, 1809. CONTENTS PREFATORY ADDRESS to the Students in Divinity, in ADVERTISEMENT to the Second Edition ADVERTISEMENT to the Third Edition No. 1.-On the PRE-EXISTENCR OF Christ, and the species of arguments by which this article of the Christian Doctrine has been opposed No. II._Unitarian objections to the religious observ. No. III.-On the importance of the doctrine of RE. No. IV.-Pardon not necessarily consequent upon Re. No. V. The sense entertained by mankind of the na. tural inefficacy of Repentance, proved from the history of HUMAN SACRIFICES ...... No. VI.-On the multiplied operation of the Divine No. VII. Deistical reasoning instanced in CHUBB ... 130 No. IX.-On the granting of the divine forgiveness through a Mediator or Intercessor No. X.-On UNITARIANS, or Rational Dissenters .. 148 No. XI.- On the distinction between UNITARIANs and No. XII.-On the corruption of man's natural state .. 154 No. XIII.-On the misrepresentation of the doctrine of No. XIV.-On the disrespect of Scripture manifested No. XV.-On the Heathen notions of merit entertained No. XVI.-On Dr. John TAYLOR's scheme of Atone. No. XVII. - The doctrine of Atonement falsely charg- ed with the presumption of pronouncing on the No. XVIII-On the mode of reasoning, whereby the sufficiency of good works without mediation is at. tempted to be defended from Scripture No. XIX.-The want of a discoverable connexion be. tween the means and the end, equally applies to No. XX.-On the Scripture phrase of our being recon. No. XXI.-On the true distinction between the laying aside our enmity to God, and being reconciled to No. XXII.-On the proofs from Scripture, that the Sinner is the object of the Divine displeasure 208 No. XXIII.--Instance from the book of Job, of Sacri. fice being prescribed, to avert God's Anger ...... 219 |
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