The Columbian Miscellany; Containing a Variety of Important, Instructive, and Entertaining Matter, Chiefly Selected Out of the Philadelphian Magazines (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and it'.he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that ye may be healed. The Evidences of Christianity, considered: .Or, a short and easy Method 'with the Deists; Wherein the certainty of the Christian Religion is demonstrated. IN A LETTER. BT MR. LESLIE.: 1. I MUCH condole with your unhappy circumstances, in being placed amongst such company, where, as you say, you continually hear the sacred Scriptures, and the histories therein contained, particularly of Moses and of Christ, and all revealed religion turned into ridicule, by men who set up for sense and reason. And they say, That there is no greater ground to believe in Christ, than in Mahomet: That all these pretences to revelation are cheats, and ever have been, among Pagans, Jews, Mahometans, and Christians: That they are all alike impositions of cunning and designing men, Li pan-the credulity at first, of simple and unthinking people; till, their numbers increasing, their delusions grew popular, came at last to be established bylaws-; and then the force of education and custom gives a bias to the judgments. of after ages, tiil such deceits come really to be believed; being received upon trust, from the ages foregoing, without examining into the original and bottom of them. Which these, our modern men of sense, .(as they desire to be esteemed) say, that they only do; that they only have their judgments freed from the slavish au Uiority of. precedents and laws, in matters of truth; which, - they say, ought only to be decided by reason; though by a .prudent compliance with popularity and.laws, they preserve . themselves from outrage, arid legal penalties; for...