ADVERTISEMENT. THE contents of the following Treatise are included under these two propositions:-1st, That the Precepts of Jesus, which teach that love to God is manifested in beneficence towards our fellow-creatures, are a sufficient Guide to Peace and Happiness; and 2ndly, That that omnipresent God, who is the only proper object of religious veneration, is one and undivided in person. Though these doctrines, as I conceive them to be alike founded on reason and revelation, appear to me to be almost as obvious truths as any abstract axiom, yet they are opposed in fact by a very large body of writers and teachers. I must therefore leave them to be decided upon by those, who will be pleased to bestow their candid and liberal attention on the arguments I have used in the succeeding pages;—and on their impartial judgment I confidently rely. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ALTERATION of Style in the Review .... Two points which the Editor wishes to establish, to wit, the excellency of the Dogmas and the insufficiency of the Precepts The Compiler acknowledges the first Page 145 145, 146 146 Rejects the second........ Passages shewing the sufficiency of the Precepts-God one, and the object of supreme love ... The authority of Paul quoted, inapplicable Justifying a selection as the substitute for the whole The Precepts of Jesus practicable 148 .... 150 ib. ... 151 153 154 The contradiction between the indispensableness of the Doc trines and the sufficiency of the Precepts Repentance the only means of forgiveness CHAPTER II. Positions of the Reviewer 155 Jesus receives all power from God. .. 156 Power given to Jesus as the Son of God The unity between God and Jesus, and between him and his God dwelleth in Jesus and he in God 157 162 .. 163 Jesus considered distinct from God 165 He that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father ib. Definition of the unity between God and Jesus.. The Jews charged Jesus only with calling himself the Son 167 ib. of God 168 The term "God" frequently applied to existences inferior .... to God The term " for ever" often applied to created beings John i. 1, explained... Page ....... 168 170 171 ..... 172 173 Hindoos believe in one Godhead, consisting of numerous persons under it Jesus performs wonderful works, which do not amount to equality with those of God CHAPTER III. The first position of the Editor, on the ubiquity of Jesus.... 175 John iii. 13, explained viii. 58, xi. 8 ...... ib. ib. xi. 38; Matt. xxvi. 2; John xiii. 6, xvi. 32; Matt. The second position of the Editor, on the incomprehensibi .... 177 179 ib. Matt. xi. 28, [Prov. xxix. 17,] explained The third position of the Editor, on Jesus forgiving sins in The fourth position of the Editor, respecting the almighty Deut. xviii. 15, 18; Acts iii. 22, vii. 37, considered Matt. xx. 23, xii. 28, xxvi. 39, considered 188 |