OR, THE GLORY AND FULNESS OF THE Sam: Miller, REDE E MER DISPLAYED, In an Attempt to explain, illustrate, and enforce BY THE REVEREND MR. WILLIAM M'E WEN, DUNDEE. BOSTDE: PRINTED BY MANNING & LORING, ALBANY, July, 1796. THE candid reader, who shall be pleafed to perufe the following effay, is defired to take notice, that as the difcourfe itfelf is not of the argumentative kind, it is taken for granted, as a preliminary maxim, That the grand doctrines of Christianity concerning the mediation of Chrift, and the ineftimable bleffings of his purchafe, were typically manifefted to the church, by a variety of ceremonies, perfons, and events, under the Old Teftament difpenfation. It is true, there are fome who affect to call this truth in queftion, and yet pretend to be the friends of a divine revelation;; but with what fincerity, it is not difficult to perceive. To fuppofe that the gofpel is a new invention, and hatched in the age of the apostles, or that the religion of Jews and Christians are entirely different, is fignally injurious to them both for as a living creature, when cut in two, will seem at first to preferve fome faint remains of life in both its parts, but in a fhort time will totally expire; fo if the fyftem of the true religion be cut afunder, and the faith of Jews be wholly fevered and detached from the faith of Chrif tians, instead of having one religion of Jews, and another of Chriftians, we fhall in reality have no true religion at all furviving. But we do not propofe fo much as to enter on any dif pute on this head, as the following treatise was not intended by the author, either for the conviction of 'Infidels, or for the confutation of false SC221 (REPPE) 5353 JUN 26 1301 |