been given up. But the very great advance in the price of paper has proved a material impediment; while the small type and crowded page of the former edition have by many been complained of, not only as uncomfortable to the reader, but as a real hindrance to the usefulness of the work.

The improvements in the present edition will, it is hoped, be deemed fully adequate to the advance in the price. Great pains have been bestowed, in correcting the inaccuracies of the style; in rendering perspicuous such passages, as had been left rather obscure from regard to brevity; in giving energy to some arguments which had not been stated in their full force; and in placing several illustrations to greater advantage. Peculiar care has likewise been taken to render the scriptural references and quotations accurate; and further proof, from the sacred oracles, has frequently been adduced in support of the conclusions which had been formed. A correct Index for the conveniency of the reader has also been annexed.

The work, thus revised, the author commends to the candour of the public, from which it hath already met with a favourable reception; and he earnestly begs the prayers of all pious Christians, for the divine blessing on this attempt, and on all his other feeble endeavours to spread the knowledge of the blessed gospel of God our Saviour; and to excite and direct believers to adorn that holy doctrine by their whole conduct and conversation.

MARCH 29, 1798.

INDEX.

A.

Adoption, a privilege of the
believer, 253.
Affections, those required to
be exercised towards Christ
prove his Deity, 111.
Antinomianism,
springs, 228.

Arianism, a system repugnant

C.

Candour, a false kind of, 43, 44.
Charity, perfectly consistent
with it to consider men's
state as dangerous, 80, 81,

109.
whence it Charms, unlawful, 58.
Children, their duties to their
parents, 65, 302. Necessity
of correcting them when
young, 305.
Christ, evidence of his resur-
rection, 19. His character,
as delineated by the evan-
gelists, perfect, 6, 26. His
Deity, proofs of, 87, &c. Im-
portance of that doctrine,
105, &c. His fitness for sus -
taining the office of Media-
tor, 127 Made an atone-
ment by his death, 147, 148.
Cannot be received in one of
his characters while rejected
in another, 160. His medi-
atorial kingdom, 120, 156-

to reason, 88.
Ascension of Christ, ends pro-
posed by it, 149.
Assurance of salvation, a dis-
tinct thing from faith, 249,
250. Not enjoyed by all Chris-
tians, 251. How obtained,
273.
Atonement, why necessary,
125, 127, 140. Doctrine of,
discussed, 133, &c. Impor-
tance of the doctrine, 146.
Day of, among the Jews, 151.
Authority, a valuable talent,
how to be improved, 320.

B.

Baptism, the form of words
prescribed for it implies the
Deity of Christ and the Ho-
ly Spirit, 112, 203, 347. Not
regeneration, 180. What it
represents, 345, 346. To
whom at first administered,
347. What professions it
implies, 347, 348. Ofinfants,
its good effects, 350.
Believers, their experience,
234, &c. Their privileges,
247, &c. Their dispositions
and characters, 261, &c.
Benevolence, tendency of Chris-
tian principles to promote it,
279.

158.

Christian, life of, represented
in Scripture as a warfare,
234. See Believers.
Circumcision, what intended
by it, 346.

Communion, with God, a priv-
ilege of the believer, 257.
Contentment, produced by

Christian principles, 30.
Conversion, the change intend-
ed thereby, 183, 215-217.
Conviction of sin, arises from

right views of the divine law,
224.
Correction, of Children, neces-
sary, 305. Directions con
cerning, 305, 306.

Messiah, whence the name is Privileges, of true Christians,