LIST -OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS CITED. Account of the East India Mission ..Lond. 1814 Account of the Danish Mission..... Agreement of the customs of the East Indians and ....Lond. 1718 Baxter's Reasons of the Christian religion......Lond. 1667 Brerewood's Enquiries touching languages, &c. ......1635 Edwards's History of Redemption, by Erskine..Lond. 1823 Eveleigh's Bampton Lectures Feltham's Resolves.. Oxford 1794 Felton's Vindication of the Christian Faith......Lond. 1732 ...Lond. 1709 Heylin's Historia Quinquarticularis............Lond. 1660 Horsley's (Bp.) Sermons ... Jenkin on the Christian Religion, 2 vols. Limborch's Theologia Christiana ........Amsterdam 1686 Locke's Reasonableness of Christianity ........ Lond. 1695 Mant's (Bp.) Bampton Lectures ..Oxford 1818 Newton's (Bp.) Works, 6 vols... Lond. 1787 Tomline's (Bp.) Elements of Theology, 2 vols. Lond. 1804 ...Lond. 1742 Oxford 1816 Ruin and Recovery of Mankind Whitby on the Five Points N.B. For the sake of compression, I have found it necessary to shorten several of the quotations, and occasionally have brought distinct sentences together, to avoid extraneous matter. But, by the foregoing List, it will be easy for the reader to consult the original authors, by whom he will find the topics in general treated at much greater length. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. As it is the professed object of the present work to establish that as an essential doctrine of Christian Theology, which has hitherto been treated by some, as dubious and apocryphal, and by others, as a mere private and curious speculation; it is expedient, that, before we enter on its scriptural evidence, we should distinctly state the nature of the question, the principles on which it rests, and the general opinions which have been entertained concerning it. As to the question, whether the benefits of Christ's Redemption extend to all the individuals of the human race, or whether they are to be confined exclusively to the members of the Christian Church; there can be no enquiry of more real importance, and none which is more intimately B |