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1730, Printed for J. Noon
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v. 1. Of the universal sense of good and evil; The characters of the righteous and good man compared, or benevolence the noblest branch of social virtue; The perfection of the Christian scheme of benvolence, in an answer to the objection from its not having particularly recommended private friendship and the love of our country; Of the image of god in man, or the excellency of human nature; God is not an arbitrary being; Of the abuses of free-thinking; Of mysteries; Agur's prayer, or the middle condition of life, generally the most eligible; The mischiefs of slavish compliance and cowardice; Rules for the profitable reading the Holy Scriptures; Of heresy; Of schism; Of the pleasures of a religious life; Religion founded on reason and the right of private judgment; The evidence of a future state on the principles of reason and revelation distinctly consider'd; The nature, folly and danger of scoffing at religion
v. 2. Of moral and natural evil; Of the true principle of virtue; Of the nature, divine original and authority of conscience; The plea of an erroneous conscience distinctly consider'd and argued; The influences of the spirit entirely persuasive and moral, and its fruits of the same kind with the dictates of natural conscience; Of anger; The time when Christianity was made known proved to be the fittest, from the state and circumstances of the world; The wisdom of God in the various ranks and subordinations of human life; The glory of God best promoted by the moral rectitude and happiness of his creatures; The folly of imitating popular and fashionable vices; The submility and extent of Christian morals; Of sincerity, as opposed to prejudice; Of the true idea and improvement of human life; The kingdom of God under the dispensation of the gospel, not an external and ritual, but a moral constitution; Universal charity the essence and life of religion; The peculiar guilt and infamy of prevailing wickedness in an enlighten'd and polite age
v. 3. God no respecter of persons; The scripture doctrine of justification explained; Moral reflections on the history of Joseph; Of the natural relation of men to God and their common tie to each other; Of murder, and the vices and customs leading to it; Of duels, and self-murder; On the example and moral character of Christ; The nature of a heavenly conversation explained; On incredulity and the morality of faith; The different characters of true religion and enthusiasm; Of theft, fraud and extortion; The doctrine of a particular providence considered; Of the unity of God and the Jewish theocracy; On the seventh commandment
v. 4. The love of God a rational principle and a moral virtue; Of the true happiness of man; The mischiefs of vanity, and an affected wisdom; The distinct offices and uses of reason and revelation; Of blasphemy and prophane swearing; Of exemplary and shining characters of virtue; Of slander and defamation; Of covetousness, envy, and discontent; The advantages of consideration; The true ground of the argument, from reason, for a future state; Of the sabbath and the moral ground of public worship; Virtue an uniform and consistent character; A general discourse on the nature and use of prayer; The reasonableness of that branch of prayer, which is stiled intercession; Of idolatry, and visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children; On the mediation of Christ.

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BV4253 .F687 1730

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OL28400415M
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