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An Answer to a Late Book [by M. Tindall] Intituled, 'christianity as Old as the Creation'.
An Answer to a Late Book Intituled 'christianity as Old as the Creation' - by M. Tindall Author:John Leland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1740 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: T O A BOOK Intitul E D, ChriftianityasOld as the Creation. In . Two Parts. Part I. In which that Author's Account of the Law Op Nature is confider'd, and his Scheme is fhewn to be inconfiftent with Reafon and with itfelf, and of ill Confequence to the Interefts of Virtue and the Good of Mankind. Part II. In which the Authority and Ufefulncfs of the Revelation contain'd in the facred Wri- tings of the Old and NcwTcftamcnt, is aflcrtcd and vindicated, againft the Objections and Misreprefentations of that Author j The SECOND EDITION Corrcctcd. LONDON: Printed for Richard Hett, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry. M. DGG. XL; (v) PREFACE. T a. Time when fuck bold and open At- tempts are made again/I all Reveald Religion, I think no Man ought to be Mlamd for his 'well-meant Endeavours to defend our common Chriftianity; and if the Reader 'will be fb candidas to believe that my appearing in the prefent Controversy proceeds from anhonefl Zeal for what I take to be the Caufe of God and true undefil. d Religion- I fhall not be follicitous to make any other Apo- logy- The Book to which this is an Anfwer is generally ownd to be written with great Art, and in a manner very proper to make an 1m- frejjlon on thofe that will not give them]"elves the trouble ofclofe Thinking, which mufl be ovan. d to be the Character of the Generality of R eaders. It has a fair Semblance of Moderation and Love to Mankind. The Author pro- fejfes a great 'Regard and Veneration for the 'Deityr, and a Concern for his Honour in the World, and for the Interefts of Virtue and Morality, of...« less