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THE
WORKS
OF THE
REV. ANDREW FULLER,
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
NEW-HAVEN :
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY S. CONVERSE.
1824
BX6217 Fε
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GOSPEL ITS OWN WITNESS;
OR,
THE HOLY NATURE AND DIVINE HARMONY
CHRISTIAN RELIGION,
CONTRASTED WITH
THE IMMORALITY AND ABSURDITY
OF
DEISM.
Laying his hand on the Bible, he would say, "There is true philosophy. This is the wisdom that speaks to the heart. A bad life is the only grand ob- jection to this Book.”
EARL OF ROCHESTER.
Preface,
Introduction,
CONTENTS.
PART THE FIRST;
In which the Holy Nature of the Christian Religion is contrasted
with the Immorality of Deism.
CHAPTER I.
Christianity reveals a God, glorious in Holiness: but Deism, though it
acknowledges a God, yet denies or overlooks his Moral Character,
CHAPTER II.
Christianity teaches us to acknowledge God, and to devote ourselves to
his Service; but Deism, though it confesses one Supreme Being, yet
refuses to worship him,
CHAPTER III.
The Christian Standard of Morality is enlarged, and free from Impurity;
but Deism confines our obligations to those Duties which respect our
own Species, and greatly palliates Vice with regard to a breach even
of them,
CHAPTER IV.
Christianity furnishes Motives to a virtuous Life; which Deism either re-
jects, or attempts to undermine,
CHAPTER V.
The Lives of those who reject the Gospel will not bear a Comparison with
theirs who embrace it,
CHAPTER VI.
Christianity has not only produced good Effects in those who cordially
believe it, but has given to the Morals of Society a Tone which De-
ism, so far as it operates, goes to counteract,
CHAPTER VII.
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Christianity is a Source of Happiness both to Individuals and Society:
but Deism leaves both one and the other without Hope,
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