CURE of DEISM:

OR, THE

Mediatorial Scheme

JESUS CHRIST

The ONLY TRUE RELIGION.

BY

In ANSWER to the OBJECTIONS ftarted, and to the very imperfect Account of The Religion of NATURE, and of CHRISTIANITY, given by the Two Oracles of DEISM, the AUTHOR of Christianity as old as the Creation; and the AUTHOR of the Characteristicks.

WITH

An APPLICATION to Papifis, Quakers, Socinians, and Scepticks.

AND

An APPENDIX, in ANSWER to a Book entitled, The Moral Philofopher, or a Dialogue between a Chriftian Deift and a Christian Jew.

In TWO VOLUME S.

The Second Edition, corrected and improved with large Additions. In a NEW METHOD.

By a COUNTRY CLERGY MAN.

VOL.

II.

I came not to deftroy the Law, but to fulfil it.
Ye believe in GOD, believe alfo in ME.

LONDON:

Printed for the AUTHOR; and Sold by W. INNYS and R. MANBY, at the Weft-End of St. Paul's.

M. DCC. XXXVII.

THE

CONTENTS

Of VÃO LU ME II. H

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CHA P. XV.

Of the inward Aids of the Chriftian

Religion.

T

HE Deifts filent with the respect to the inter-

nal Aids, external Motives, and the Helps

and Inftruments appertaining to Religion Page 1

Internal Aids a new Advocate to the Regent Power

of Man's Actions, ib. to the End of the Chap.

The Heathen Pbilofophers fenfible of the Want of

this inward Affiftance which the Deifts defpife 2

The Necefity of it

3

7

As a Counterbalance to the Evil Spirit?

A new Principle to the Flefh

10

As Helper of our Infirmities in Prayer, with Groans

unutter'd

Gifts extraordinary, and ordinary

How a Seals

12

15

jb.

ib.

How an Earneft

In what Ways and Methods a Monitor, Advocate,

and Affiftant

17, &c.

24

Born of the Spirit, the Occafion of it

How God the Giver of a New Heart, &c.

All the Operations of the Spirit confiftent with our

25

Liberty

ib.

Trut

382

A..

26

29

CHAP. XVI

Of External Motives. 00

FU

Uture Rewards and Punishments the grand

Motives to Religion

32, &c.

Hope and Fear, with refpell to Happiness and Mi-
fery, the chief Springs of human Action 33
How Love, as it is placed, is the Origin of all the
Paffions 26 el Lipwa od: Jib.

External Motives of future Rewards and Punish-

ments a counter-balance to the irregular Paffions

of this Life

at 236

Deifts take
s take away the Spring of Action, and with it

I all Virtue and Religion

39,&c.

The vulgar of the Heathen World in believing fu-
ture Rewards and Punishments implicitly, had an
Advantage over the Philofophers Ab 43
The Religion of the modern Deifts unnatural and ab-
furd, in rejecting out of their Syftem of Virtue, the
Profit, Self-Advantage, and future Rewards of
it, fbeen at large
47, &c.

Moral Obligations, wherein founded, fhewn at large

C

53

ib.

Self-Advantage duly distinguished

Affection to the Publick diftinguished as a Principle

thof Action

58 A 55

Heroick Actions to Society in every Perfon's Power 63

Publick Spirit in Governors different from that of
Subject's

8. 64

Compaffion, Gratitude, Friendship,

Self-Advantage

reconciled to

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