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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN ARGUMENT, IN NINE PARTS. Acts, x'vii. 30, 31. con Commah-deth Ah Mis To Kepekt: Si- Cause HE HATH APJPOISTEII A DAT, IN THE WHICH HE Will JTDGE THE WOULD IN BIC.HTEOLSNESS. REV. ROBERT GORDON, Minister of the Gospel, Edinburgh. Mr Wobtht Tbibstd, The design of the following Argument, which, with all affection and esteem, I dedicate to you, is to recover the great subject of Judgment to Come from poetical visionaries on the one hand, and from religious rhapsodists on the other; and to place it upon the foundation of divine revelation, of human understanding, andthe common good. The revelation of God upon the subject, is brought forward, and I endeavour to show that it commends itself to every noble sentiment of the human breast, and to every worthy interest of human life. For it seems to me that upon religion we are growing wiser than our fathers, who were content with a train of human authorities, and that this age requireth religious truth to be justified like other truth, by showing its benefits to the mind itself, and to society at large. The poets and economists are quite alive to this advancement of the public mind, and alteration of the public taste, of whom the former address our imagination and our heart, the latter our interests;?bases upon which they have reared up by far the most rival influences to religion ?the school of Sentiment, which holds of the former; and the school of Politics, which holds of the latter. Now being convinced that, besides a Creed, there is in our religion the most elevated sentiment, and the greatest advantage, both public and private, I see not but we should fight and overthrow these rivals with their own weapons, by addressing their disciples upon that side on which their ear is open. For their ear is shut, and I hope the e...
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