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PREFACE.

A S the following sheets contain
A reflections whichare the produce

of many yearsenquiry: so, I hope, my reader will not be surprized, or make it a matter of complaint, if he should find me in one part to differ from myself in another ; but would rather think it strange, if I should not, seeing it is what men of free enquiry are always liable to; because those evidences, which are the ground of their persuasions, are, by such enquiry, liable to be differently perceived by them. A proper and well-grounded afsent to the truth of any proposition, is founded on a perception of the evidence, upon which the truth of that proposition is supposed to depend : and, therefore, as our perception of such evidence is, in many cases, liable to alter and change; that is; what we perceive to

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be conclusive to day may appear otherwise to morrow; fo our opinions are ; liable to alter and change likewise. And as I have, in the course of my enquiries, had a strict regard to truth, and this has led me fometimes to differ from myself, by a change of my opi- : nions : fo I am ready to retract and give up my opinion I have embraced or maintained, when such farther evidence shall appear, as renders it just and proper so to do.

THE
CONTENT S.

To the First VOLUME,

Tract.I. T H E Supremacy of the Father

L aserted : Or, eight Arguments

from Scripture to prove, that

d the Son is a Being inferiour and

subordinate to the Father, and that the Father alone

is the supreme God. First printed in the Year. 1715.

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TRACT. II. The Supremacy of the Father vindicated:

Or, Observations on Mr. Claggett's Book, entitled,

Arianism anotomized. Wherein is pewn, that

what Mr. Claggett, and others, call Christ's divine

Nature, is so far from being the real and very Son

of God, that, on the contrary, it is the very fa-

ther of God's Son. .

TRACT. III. An Appendix, being an Enquiry concern-

ing the Personal Character of the Son of God, and

what is necessary to be believed concerning him; and

likewise into the sense and Meaning of our Lord's

Words, viz. Except ye believe that I am he, ye

Thall die in your fins; as in John viii. 24. 117

TRACT. IV. An Enquiry concerning Property, wherein

is considered Liberty of Concience. . 125

Tract. V. An Enquiry concerning Sin, in which is

considered Original Sin...

140

TRACT.VI. An Enquiry concerning Justification. 167

TRACT. VII. An Enquiry concerning the Sense and

Meaning of our Lord's Words, viz. Son, thy sins

be forgiven thee; as in Mark ii. 5 . 188

TRACT. VIII. An Enquiry concerning Sinners Deliver-

'ance from Condemnation; wherein the Case of Christ's

Satisfaction is considered, and impartially stated, ac-

cording to the Scripture Account of it. - 194

TRACT.

TRACT. IX. An Enquiry concerning the Justice of

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God. .

: 222

Tract. X. An Enquiry concerning Infinite Justice,

and Infinite Satisfaction.

242

TRACT. XI. An Enquiry concerning Faith and My-

steries: Or, a four-fold Enquiry ; first, what Faith

is; secondly, what the object of Faith is; thirdly,

what a Mystery is ; fourthly, whether a Mystery

is the object of Faith.

. : : 249

TRACT. XII. An Enquiry concerning the Use of Rea-

son in matters of Revelation." .: 261

TRACT. XIII. An Enquiry concerning Prayer 265

Tract. XIV. An Enquiry concerning the Unity, or

Oneness of the Church, or Body of Christ. 296

Tract. XV. An Enquiry into that important Questi-

jon, Whether Christ is fole King in bis own Kingdom?

gr, Whether the Civil Magistrate, or the Pastors in

Christ's Church, are invested with Authority to rule

Chrift's Subje£ts, by making Laws to direct their

Behaviour and Condu£t in Christ's Service? which

Laws they (viz. Cbrits Subjects) are obliged in

: Conscience to pay active Obedience to. In a Letter

to a Gentleman. . .

325

TRACT. XVI. Part of a Letter to another Gentleman,

relating to the foregoing Enquiry. - 335

TRACT. XVII. The Previous Question, with Re-

gard to Religion. Humbly offered to be considered,

in order to the Settling and Determining all other

Questions on this Subject.

339

TRACT, XVIII. A Supplement to the Previous

Question, with Regard to Religion, Wherein fe-

veral Objections made to the Previous Question are

examined, and in which God's Moral Character,

is more fully vindicated. In a Letter to a Friend.

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