PRINTED BY HENRY TUCKNISS, CHURCH-ALLEY, AND SOLD BY JOHN DICKINS, NO. 44, NORTH SECOND M DCC Xcrv. 17 G Not that of dane to flaming yeat preten SSC To weigh the Gold of Gofpel Truth- By a Lover of the whole Truth as it is in JESUS. How is the most fine gold changed!" Take heed that ye be «Si non eft Dei gratia, quomodo falvat mundum? 156871 BIBLE. Si non ef Aug. PRE FAC E. THE Reconciler invites the contending Parties to end the Controverfy; and in order to this, he befeeches them not to involve the question in clouds of evafive cavils, or perfonal reflections: but to come to the point, and break, if they can, either the one or the other of his ScriptureScales; and, if they cannot, to admit them both, and, by that means, to give glory to God and the Truth, and be reconciled to all the Gospel, and to one another. EING fully perfuaded that Chriftianity fuffers lifidians, and of the mere Moralifts; we embrace the truths and reject the errors, which are maintained by thefe contrary parties. For, by equally admitting the doarines of grace, and the dodrines of juflice;-by equally contending for faith and for morality, we adopt what is truly excellent in each fyftem; we reconcile Zelotes and Honeflus; we bear our teftimony against their contentious partiality; and, to the beft of our knowledge, we maintain the whole truth as it is in Jefus. If we are mistaken, we fhall be thankful to thofe who will fet us right. Plain feriptures, clofe arguments, and friendly expoftulations, are the weapons we chufe. We humbly hope, that the unpre judiced reader will find no other in these pages: and to engage our opponents to ufe fuch only, we prefent to them the following Petition. For Candor's fake;-for Truth's fake;-for Peace's fake;-for the Reader's fake: and, above all, for the A2 fake |