As they are ftated in Mr. ROBERT BARCLAY'S
APOLOGY; with an ANSWER to what Mr. PHIPPS
has advanced for the Defence of them, in his
OBSERVATIONS UPON AN EPISTLE TO THE
AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO DR. FORMEY.

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By S. NEW TO N, of NORWICH,

Take heed, therefore, that the Light which is in thee be not Darkness. Luke xi. 35.

Try the Spirits whether they be of God.

1 John iv. 1.

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CONTENT S.

INTRODUCTION.

WHY religious controverfy is unacceptable-Faults
of polemical writers-In what light Mr. Phipps's

performance appears to the writer of this treatife-

Should Mr. Barclay's fyftem be true, it will not be

injured by this examination of it-Some ferious people,

of other perfuafions, are acting upon principles much

like thofe of the Apologift, though they use different

terms-The advantages of liberty in this country to

every writer-Thofe controverfial books which lead

the attention of the reader to the connected fenfe of

the Scriptures, the most useful-Concerning perfonal

reflection in this controverfy-The decency and mora-

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lity