PREFACE.

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S the following fheets contain reflections whichare the produce of many years enquiry: fo, I hope, my reader will not be furprized, or make it a matter of complaint, if he fhould find me in one part to differ from myself in another; but would rather think it strange, if I fhould not, seeing it is what men of free enquiry are always liable to; because those evidences, which are the ground of their perfuafions, are, by such enquiry, liable to be differently perceived by them. A proper and well-grounded affent to the truth of any propofition, is founded on a perception of the evidence, upon which the truth of that propofition is fupposed to depend: and, therefore, as our perception of fuch evidence is, in many cafes, liable to alter and change; that is; what we perceive to

be conclufive to day may appear otherwife to morrow; fo our opinions are liable to alter and change likewife. And as I have, in the courfe of my enquiries, had a strict regard to truth, and this has led me fometimes to differ from myfelf, by a change of my opinions: fo I am ready to retract and give up my opinion I have embraced or maintained, when fuch farther evidence shall appear, as renders it just and proper fo to do.

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To the Firft VOLUME,

T

HE Supremacy of the Father

afferted: Or, eight Arguments

from Scripture to prove, that

the Son is a Being inferiour and

fubordinate to the Father, and that the Father alone

is the fupreme God. First printed in the Year 1715.

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TRACT. II. The Supremacy of the Father vindicated:

Or, Obfervations on Mr. Claggett's Book, entitled,

Arianifm anotomized. Wherein is fhewn, that

what Mr. Claggett, and others, call Chrift's divine

Nature, is fo far from being the real and very Son

of God, that, on the contrary, it is the very Fa-

ther of God's Son.

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TRACT. III. An Appendix, being an Enquiry concern-

ing the Perfonal Character of the Son of God, and

what is neceffary to be believed concerning him; and

likewife into the Senfe and Meaning of our Lord's

Words, viz. Except ye believe that I am he, ye

fhall die in your fins; as in John viii. 24. 117

TRACT. IV. An Enquiry concerning Property, wherein

is confidered Liberty of Concience.

125

TRACT. V. An Enquiry concerning Sin, in which is

confidered Original Sin.

TRACT.I.

140

TRACT. VI. An Enquiry concerning Juftification. 167

TRACT. VII. An Enquiry concerning the Senfe and

Meaning of our Lord's Words, viz. Son, thy fins

be forgiven thee; as in Mark ii. 5. 188

TRACT. VIII. An Enquiry concerning Sinners Deliver-

ance from Condemnation; wherein the Cafe of Christ's

Satisfaction is confidered, and impartially stated, ac-

cording to the Scripture Account of it. 194

TRACT.

TRACT. IX. An Enquiry concerning the Justice of

God.

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TRACT. X. An Enquiry concerning Infinite Justice,

and Infinite Satisfaction.

TRACT. XI. An Enquiry concerning Faith and My-

fteries: Or, a four-fold Enquiry; first, what Faith

is; fecondly, what the object of Faith is; thirdly,

what a Mystery is; fourthly, whether a Mystery

is the Object of Faith.
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TRACT. XII. An Enquiry concerning the Ufe of Rea-

fon in matters of Revelation.
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TRACT. XIII. An Enquiry concerning Prayer 265

TRACT. XIV. An Enquiry concerning the Unity, or

Oneness of the Church, or Body of Christ. 296

TRACT. XV. An Enquiry into that important Quefti-

on. Whether Chrift is fole King in his own Kingdom?

or, Whether the Civil Magiftrate, or the Paftors in

Chrift's Church, are invested with Authority to rule

Chrift's Subjects, by making Laws to direct their

Behaviour and Conduct in Chrift's Service? which

Laws they (viz. Chrift's Subjects) are obliged in

Confcience to pay active Obedience to. In a Letter

to a Gentleman.

TRACT. XVI. Part of a Letter to another Gentleman,

relating to the foregoing Enquiry.
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325

TRACT. XVII. The Previous Question, with Re-

gard to Religion. Humbly offered to be confidered,

in Order to the Settling and Determining all other

Questions on this Subject.
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TRACT. XVIII. A Supplement to the Previous

Question, with Regard to Religion, Wherein fe-

veral Objections made to the Previous Question are

examined, and in which God's Moral Character,

is more fully vindicated. In a Letter to a Friend.

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