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The contents of the following Treatise are included
under these two propositions :—ist, That the Precepts
of Jesus, which teach that love to God is manifested
in beneficence towards our fellow-creatures, are a suffi-
cient Guide to Peace and Happiness ; and 2ndly, That
that omnipresent God, who is the only proper object of
religious veneration, is one and undivided in person.
Though these doctrines, as I conceive them to be
alike founded on reason and revelation, appear to me to
be almost as obvious truths as any abstract axiom, yet
they are opposed in fact by a very large body of writers
and teachers. I must therefore leave them to be decid-
ed upon by those who will be pleased to bestow their
candid and liberal attention on the arguments I have
used in the succeeding pages ;—and on their impartial
judgment I confidently rely.
The contents of the following Treatise are included
under these two propositions :—ist, That the Precepts
of Jesus, which teach that love to God is manifested
in beneficence towards our fellow-creatures, are a suffi-
cient Guide to Peace and Happiness ; and 2ndly, That
that omnipresent God, who is the only proper object of
religious veneration, is one and undivided in person.
Though these doctrines, as I conceive them to be
alike founded on reason and revelation, appear to me to
be almost as obvious truths as any abstract axiom, yet
they are opposed in fact by a very large body of writers
and teachers. I must therefore leave them to be decid-
ed upon by those who will be pleased to bestow their
candid and liberal attention on the arguments I have
used in the succeeding pages ;—and on their impartial
judgment I confidently rely.