But

the use of thofe are marks and evidences of our imperfection, and fhews human nature to be in a weak, and in an infirm ftate, as it ftands in need of fuch help: that is, it fhews the danger and aptness we are under to deviate from our duty, when we ftand in need of those to recal our attention, and to awaken in us a fenfe of the obligations we are under both to God and man. when human nature fhall have attained to its perfection, by being perfectly subjected to the original and primary law of nature, or reafon, then there will be no ufe nor place for pofitive duties; then thefe, like faith and hope, fhall ceafe and be no more: whereas charity, or the practice of moral duties, fhall remain for ever. Tell me then, ye who hope to obtain perfection by this Levitical priefthood of pofitive duties, and who truft to find acceptance with God thro' thefe, what rational grounds you have to build fuch hope and truft upon? Had not Abraham, our father, two fons, one by a bond maid, the other by a free woman? Nevertheless, what faith the fcripture, Caft out the bond woman, and her fon; for the fon of the bond woman, viz. pofitive duties, hall not be heir with the fun of the free woman, viz. moral duties. So then, brethren, let us ftrive to be found children, not of the bond woman but of the free.

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Four TRACTS.

VIZ.

I. An ENQUIRY concerning the Books of the New Teftament, Whether they were written by Divine Inspiration, &c.

II. REMARKS on Britannicus's LETTERS, publish'd in the London Journals of the 4th and 11th of April, 1724; and re-published in the Journals of the 5th and 12th of April 1729; containing an Argument drawn from the fingle Fact of Christ's Refurrection, to prove the Divinity of his Miffion. Wherein is fhewn, that Britannicus's Argument does not answer the Purpose for which it was intended. And in which is likewife fhewn, what was the great and main End that the Refurrection of Christ was intended to be fubfervient to; viz. not to prove the Divinity of his Miffion, but to gather together his Difciples, to commiffion, and qualify, and fend them forth. to preach his Gofpel to all Nations.

III. The CASE of Abraham with respect to his being commanded by GoD to offer his Son Ifaac in Sacrifice, farther confidered. In Anfwer to Mr. Stone's Remarks. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Stone.

IV. The Equity and Reasonablenefs of a future Judgment and Retribution exemplify'd; or, a Difcourfe on the Parable of the unmerciful Servant, as it is related in Matth. xviii. from Verse 23, to the End of the Chapter.

By THOMAS CHUBB.

LONDON:

Printed for T. Cox, at the Lamb under the Royal Exchange. M. DCC. XXXIV.

ΑΝ

ENQUIRY

Concerning the

Books of the New Teftament,

Whether they were written by divine inspiration, according to the vulgar use of that expreffion; that is, Whether the minds of the writers were under fuch a divine direction, as that Almighty God immediately revealed to, and impreffed upon them the fubject matter therein contained.

IN A

LETTER to a CLERGYMAN.