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ON

THE REASONABLENESS

OF

CHRISTIANITY.

CHAPTER FIRST.

ON GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

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CHAPTER FIRST.

ON GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

WE call opinions reasonable which are in accordance with moral feelings and moral tendencies,that are universally acknowledged as right, and acted upon with approbation in the ordinary course of Providence. These principles we recognise as the laws which regulate human belief. With these in our view, we proceed to evince that Christianity cannot be rejected on the ground of its unreasonableness.

Our argument is not with the man who denies the truth of the Gospel, but with him whose mind has been too much turned away from the consideration of the doctrines of our religion, and whose heart has not been, as yet, sufficiently impressed with their importance. Many are chargeable with want of attention to this subject, from an idea, that notions are intermixed with it which are at variance with the deductions of reason, or,

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