DEDICATION TO THE Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union. Gentlemen In furtherance of the objects proposed by you-and to their importance no truly good man can be indifferent — I beg respectfully to cast my MITE into your treasury of Christian information, by proving, on the solid basis of REASON, the undeniable fact of the "DIVINITY OF CHRIST," from the evidence of the Doctrine he promulgated to the world, the absolute purity and perfect sublimity of which show at once that it could not be earthborn, but must have descended from Heaven. This desideratum once accomplished, "CHURCH UNION" follows of course; for, where the Doctrine is universal, the community who adopt it cannot fail to be unanimous. Euclid affords us a proof of the force of doctrine, which can never be refuted, because it is established on the solid basis of REASON alone, totally excluding all sensible phenomena. Let this line of conduct be followed in "RELIGION;" it is in fact the only rational one, for here we have only to do with spirits: God is a spirit, the soul is a spirit—and the subordination of the will of Man to the will of God constitutes Morality and Religion, which, as Christ says, can exist only in the heart. When this spiritual communion is so thoroughly understood that the "Code of Laws" established by Christ is not only separated The "MORAL LAW" shows man what he ought to do The distinction between good and evil explained Obedience to the "Moral Law" is an affair of man with his Maker PAGE 60 SENSE is a passive faculty, which receives impressions Moral Certainty is produced by REASON Physical Certainty is produced by SENSE The Laws of Nature are TIME and SPACE HISTORY is the ground of disagreement DOCTRINE is the ground of unanimity REVELATION" of Jesus Christ proved divine Proof of the Divinity of the "New Testament" Existences in ETERNITY are permanent, universal, and necessary Existences in TIME are changeable, particular, and contingent The "REVELATION" not only true but divine All other "Religions" proved to be spurious THERE IS A GOD!-proved to the conviction even of the Atheist ib. The TRIUNE nature of the GODHEAD The dignity of man consists in generating the Moral Law PRACTICAL REASON constitutes pure moral motives SPECULATIVE REASON constitutes impure physical maxims Moral Motives lead directly to Virtue Physical Maxims tend only to promote Happiness 103 ib. ib. The World not to be destroyed by Fire, but to realise the Kingdom of Heaven The Infidel, the Jew, the Gentile, and the Unitarian, compelled to be TRINITARIANS 124 ONE GOD IN TRINITY and TRINITY IN UNITY is the only true worship Every object present to SENSE is INTUITION UNDERSTANDING is the power of forming CONCEPTIONS The matter of Knowledge is sensation All uniting takes place under the TRIUNE PRINCIPLE Every thought, word, or deed, involves a TRINITY IN UNITY QUANTITY, QUALITY, RELATION, explained Cause of sensation, NOUMENON - Effect, PHENOMENON The constitutive use of UNDERSTANDING generates objects The regulative use of UNDERSTANDING classifies objects A mathematical Cube explained Every Object absent from SENSE is CONCEPTION Conception defined as a produce of UNDERSTANDING TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY the only true Philosophy of Mind HOLY TRINITY exists in all its purity in the Kingdom of Spirits DIVINE REVELATION points out the only road to Salvation A First Cause explained DEISM rejects Revelation THEISM establishes the DIVINE REVELATION of Jesus Christ GOD the Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of the Physical and Moral world The "SACRED SCIENCE OF RELIGION" founded in REASON Every spiritual Object is an IDEA REASON, by its six laws, constructs the SPIRITUAL WORLD Man, as a being of SENSE, is MORTAL Man, as a being of REASON, is IMMORTAL SENSE furnishes laws for the BODY REASON generates laws for the SouL The laws of REASON are INFINITE Mathematical figures are secured by BELIEF The Laws of Morality are generated by PRACTICAL REASON The Laws of Nature are generated by SPECULATIVE REASON Laws originate in MIND, not in MATTER Goodness is designedly to follow the MORAL LAW Wickedness is designedly to break the MORAL LAW Motives originate in spirit-the SOUL |