BEAUTIES

OF

PHILANTHROPY:

OR,

THE MORAL LIKENESS OF GOD DELINEATED,
IN MINIATURE:

BEING

An Intellectual Mirror for the dignified Clergy, as
well as the subordinate Laiety.

Degradation and destruction of the most celebrated Nations of
Antiquity; with an investigation relative to the cause of their
downfall. Also, a comparative estimate of the similarity
between their degeneracy, and the depravity of the inhabi-
tants of Christendom. Intended to prove, that the same
cause will produce the same effect-in modern, as it did in
ancient times.

BY THOMAS BRANAGAN,

Anthor of "Preliminary Essays,' "Serious Remonstrances,"
"Female Character," &c. &c. &c.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH RAKESTRAW, NO. 190,

NORTH THIRD STREET.

L.S.

IT is a phenomenon as well as a fact, that even sincere Christians are extremely liable to form incorrect conceptions of the attributes of the Almighty, and are consequently led into the labyrinths of error and delusion, practically as well as intellectually, (as millions of the human family unhappily are) through the above medium. They do not recollect that the super-eminent philanthropy of JEHOVAH is exhibited to their view in the book of Creation and Revelation, in order to stimulate them to fulfil the diversified duties of the same philanthropy, in the various avocations of life. Indeed, the

Christian's philanthropy should be in miniature what the Almighty's is in magnitude. I have therefore, with a pure and disinterested desire to be useful to my fellow travellers to the grave, put down a few

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