The Works of Daniel Waterland (Volume 5); To Which Is Prefixed a Review of the Author's Life and Writings (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823. Excerpt: ... a just abhorrence of it: and it is the more necessary, because ordinarily men are not so apprehensive of the heinousuess of this sin, as they are of the iniquity of treason, or felony, or gross immoralities. I have now finished what I intended as to the argumentative part: but it remains still to confirm the main thing by the judgment and practice of the ancients, who may be properly called in, and will be found to be of considerable weight in the controversy: if the Scripture be plain to us now, in all things necessary, the same Scripture was undoubtedly plain to them, and to them more especially: and therefore, their judgment or practice cannot but be of use to us, if it be only to render plain things still plainer, as there are degrees of plainness. After I had finished this chapter, I had the pleasure of reading Mr. Ball's little treatise of 33 octavo pages, in answer to most of the same objections which I have been considering. If I may be allowed to give my judgment of it, it is written with great strength and solidity, without colouring or disguises, and is extremely well suited to common capacities. One shall not easily find more good sense and close argument in so short a compass. The Sober and Charitable Disquisition, as I apprehend, was intended by way of reply to that pamphlet of Mr. Ball's. But every discerning reader who shall compare the two performances together, will easily perceive the difference between artificial logic and natural, between laboured subtilties and plain naked truth. CHAP. VI. A summary View of the Judgment and Practice of the primitive Churches, in Relation to the Necessity of believing the Doctrine of the Trinity. THE very judicious and learned Bp. Bull has represented this matter in the fullest and clearest light, in ...