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THE

ANTIDOTE,

OR

REVELATION DEFENDE d,

AND

INFIDELITY REPULSED;

IN A

COURSE OF LECTURES.

BY GEORGE COLES.

The man who studies Scripture with the humility and the reverence to which alone its fulness will be expanded, is constantly struck with indications of facts beyond the direct grasp of the understanding."-REV. G. CROLY.

HARTFORD:

PRINTED BY P. CANFIELD:

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G. BROWN-GOODE COLLECTION. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by GEORGE COLES,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Connecticut.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS work owes its origin to the following circumstances: The Trustees of the Methodist Church in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in which the author preached in the summer of 1834, requested to have the Sabbath evening service at six o'clock, instead of eight. But by some of the congregation it was feared that we should have but very few hearers. To obviate this difficulty, if possible, the author gave out, that he would deliver a course of Lectures, on some of the principal doctrines of the church to which he belonged; and in order that he might state them correctly, he wrote them out at full length, and read them to the audience. This plan being somewhat novel, possessed some little attraction, and thereby a respectable congregation was secured.

Another circumstance, and a very important one, in the mind of the writer, was the publication of a new periodical, under the imposing title of "The Herald of Reason and Common Sense:". a work in which some of the doctrines of the Bible, and some of the ordinances of our holy religion were held up to public contempt; and a work in which there was a strange mixture of Atheism, Deism, Materialism, Socinianism, Universalism, and Heresy of almost every kind, and as little of pure Religion, sound "Reason," and good "Common Sense," as if it had been avowedly Infidel. The writer of these strictures, therefore, thought it a duty incumbent upon him to lift his voice, and employ his pen, in checking the progress of those fatal errors, and in guarding the youth of his acquaintance against the mischievous tendency of Infidelity, in every form; but in doing this, he could not lay claim to any thing like originality:-So many learn

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