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COLLECTION

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THEOLOGICAL TRACTS,

IN SIX VOLUMES.

By RICHARD WATSON, D. D. F. R. S.
LORD BISHOP of LANDAFF,

AND

REGIUS PROFESSOR of DIVINITY in the UNIVERSITY of
CAMBRIDGE,

VOL. IV.

LONDON,

Printed by J. NICHOLS;

for T. EVANS, London; J. & J. MERRILS, Cambridge;
and J. & J. FLETCHER, Oxford,

M. DCC. LXXXV.

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CONTENTS.

The Reasonableness of Chriftianity, as delivered in the Scripture. By JOHN LOCKE, Efq. Lond. 1727. p. 1.

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This Treatife was first published in 1695, without Mr. Locke's name; he concealed his being the author of it from his moft intimate friends, and in one of his letters to Mr. Molyneux, at Dublin, he defired to know what people thought of it there, for here, fays he," at its first coming out, it was received with no indifferency, "fome fpeaking of it with great commendation, and most cenfuring it as a very bad book." His friend, in reply, informed him, that a very learned and ingenious Prelate faid he liked it very well, and that, if Mr. Locke writ it, it was the best book he ever laboured at; but," fays he, "if I fhould be known to think fo, I "fhould have my lawns torn from my fhoulders." Abroad it was greatly efteemed by two of the beft divines which were then livingLe Clerc, and Limberch. Le Clerc, in his Bibliotheque Choifee, faid, that it was un des plus excellens ouvrages qui ait été fait de"puis long-tems fur cette matiere et dans cette vue:" and Limborch preferred it to all the Syftems of Divinity that he had ever read. Dr. Edwards wrote againft it; and his objections produced from Mr. Locke two vindications of it; thefe merit the readers attention as much as the work itself, which has long been very ge xerally approved.

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A Difcourfe concerning the unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion and the Truth and Certainty of the Chriftian Revelation. Being eight Sermons preached in the year 1705, at the Lecture founded by the Hon. ROBERT BOYLE. By SAMUEL CLARKE, D. D.

p. 109.

Whatever opinion the reader may entertain of the principles advanced in this book relative to the foundation of Morality; he will admire the ftrength and perfpicuity with which the whole of it is

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