LORD JESUS CHRIST;

Written originally in FRENCH,

By JAMES ABBADIE, D.D.

AND

DEAN OF KILLALOE, in IRELAND.

A NEW EDITION of the ENGLISH Tranflation,
Revised, Corrected, and, in a few Places, Abridged,

By ABRAHAM BOOTH.

GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS,
GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH.

I JOHN V. 20.

WE ARE IN HIM THAT IS TRUE, EVEN IN
HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS THE
TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.

LONDON:

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ASTOR

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LIBRARY

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PREFACE,

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BY THE

EDITOR.

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HE doctrine of our LORD'S Eternal Divinity having been, on different grounds, the object of long and violent opposition; many learned, ingenious, and able pens have been engaged in defence of that capital truth. Few, however, have repelled the adversary with those powers of genius, and that force of argument, which were employed by Dr ABBADIE in composing this admirable Treatife. -Far from contenting himself with dogmatical affertions, and equally far from amusing his readers with curious metaphysical speculations, on the grand Subject of his inquiries; he has recourse to the teftimony of God-to that Revelation which JEHOVAH has made of himself in the Bible, and to those deductions from it, which are natural, clear, and conclufive

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