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Great as these Errors

un =

- questionably are,....for, on Errors more propitious to Infidelity, the

Spirit of divine Revelation surely

never

are

r frowned,.... yet how few found who seriously estimate their Consequences. Multitudes, in=

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Dinciples may be, they are often

guarded with as warm a

Deal,

a more

there no other Reason for careful Attention to the Language of Inspiration, that not any Thing is more likely to prevent the cordial Peeception of divine Truth,

by

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are out

by such as "have erred & of the Way," than that irrational Misrepresentation and Distortion

of her native Loveliness, by which

some

of the sincere Friends of Peeligion attempt to depict her; and by which they not unfre= -quently succeed in leaving

по

Form nor Comeliness in her that

she should be desired. In such

Hands, heavenly Truth herself becomes an insuperable Offence to Infidelity,

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Infidelity, and appears to the View, even of enlightened Peea

to be

son, any Thing but Truth.

Harmless, then, as such Evrors

may be considered, to Persons

adapted to remove the Preju=

dices, & facilitate the Conversion

of those who unhappily will believe

nothing.

In

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In approaching the Subject before him, the Writer feels, at the Bottom of his Heart, its vast & deep Importance. He is con= scious that he treads upon most

holy Ground; and that nothing has ever been revealed to Man, which presents the Eternal Trinity Aspect so "glorious in Ho=

in an

- lines", ....so sublime in Wisdom,...

so terrible in Justice,... so ineffably abundant in Goodness, & Mercy,

and