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OR THE

Right Use of Reason,

IN THE

INQUIRY AFTER TRUTH.

WITH

A VARIETY OF RULES TO GUARD AGAINST ERROR IN THE AFFAIRS OF RELIGION AND HUMAN LIFE,

AS WELL AS IN THE SCIENCES.

BY ISAAC WATTS, D. D.

THIRD AMERICAN EDITION.

EXETER,

Printed by RANLET & NORRIS, and sold at their book-store.......sold also, by THOMAS & ANDREWS, David West, & JOHN WEST,

Boston.....1806,

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THE PROPERTY OF

Corn C. Colgate..

from his Grandra'sther.

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SIR JOHN HARTOPP, Baronet.

SIR,

T is fit the public fhould receive through your hands what was written originally for the affiftance of your younger ftudies, and was then prefented

to you.

It was by the repeated importunities of our learned friend Mr. John Eames, that I was perfuaded to revise these rudiments of logic, and when I had once suffered myself to begin the work, I was drawn ftill onward far beyond my first defign, even to the neglect, or too long delay of other preffing and important demands that were upon me.

It has been my endeavour to form every part of this treatise both for the inftruction of students, to open their way into the fciences, and for the more extenfive and general fervice of mankind, that the gentleman and the Chriftian might find their account in the perufal as well as the scholar. I have therefore collected and propofed the chief principles and rules of right judgment in matters of common and facred importance, and pointed out our most frequent mistakes and prejudices

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