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THE

SCHOLAR ARMED

AGAINST THE

ERRORS OF THE TIME;

OR, A

COLLECTION OF TRACTS

ON THE

PRINCIPLES AND EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY,

THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH,

AND THE

AUTHORITY OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

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THE WHOLE INTENDED FOR THE INFORMATION AND AS-
SISTANCE OF YOUNG STUDENTS IN OUR SCHOOLS AND
UNIVERSITIES; AND PUBLISHED BY A

SOCIETY FOR THE REFORMATION OF PRINCIPLES.

THE SECOND EDITION.

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LONDON:

PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, N° 62, ST. PAUL'S

1

CHURCH-YARD;

BY BYE AND LAW, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, CLERKENWELL,

MDCCC.

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To enumerate the errors of the time in which we live, is not a pleafing tafk; it is like dwelling on the fymptoms of an epidemical diftemper: but to administer such a remedy as the cafe requires is a work in which every virtuous and benevolent mind will be glad to take a part; and this is the fole object of the present publication. The members of a Society for the Reformation of Principles have no private ends to ferve; they are of no fect, but the fect of the Nazarenes; nor of any party, but that of the church of England. In purfuance of the plan they have laid down, they find it their duty to recommend to the notice of young Stu dents, fuch Tracts as will fecure their principles, if they are good, or amend them, if they are bad; and bring men back, fo far as it can be done, to the religion which prevailed in this church at the reformation. The man who has no good principles, has no reafon for being good; and he that is poffeffed by fuch as are bad, will act irrationally, unless he acts wickedly.

In the execution of this defign, we are obliged to confider what fort of prefervatives the times are moft in need of, and then to felect fuch pieces as are moft likely to answer the purpose. We do not apprehend it is required of us to furnish fuch writings as are abfolutely perfect, or that the Society will be thought to make itself refponfible for every fentence or page of the works it recommends. In the bufinefs of life, we are glad to employ fuch perfons as we find to be honest, and of pure inten

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