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THE

FIRST EPISTLE

TO

THE UNITARIANS:

CONTAINING

EARNEST EXHORTATIONS TO EXPERIMENTAL

RELIGION.

TO WHICH IS ADDED THE

CHRISTIAN'S REVEALED WORD OF GOD.

BY THOMAS WHOWELL.

SECOND EDITION.

66 HE THAT DENIETH THE SON, THE SAME HATH NOT THE FATHER."-1. JOHN 11. 23.

LIVERPOOL:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY C. BENTHAM AND CO. LORD-STREET,

1829.

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TWENTY-ONE EPISTLES.

FIRST EPISTLE.-The vague Ideas of Futurity would puzzle.

the philosophers of modern times.....

SECOND EPISTLE.- Jonah preaching to the Ninevites
THIRD EPISTLE.-The Glory of Heaven

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FOURTH EPISTLE.-Aiming at Heaven with the thoughts lifted

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EIGHTH EPISTLE.-Aiming at Heaven without attention to

Religion....

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NINTH EPISTLE.-Neglect of our Obligations to God
TENTH EPISTLE. -"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord

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thy God in vain"

149

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ELEVENTH EPISTLE. "Remember that thou keep holy the
Sabbath day"

153

TWELFTH EPISTLE.

"In six days the Lord made heaven and

earth"

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THIRTEENTH EPISTLE.-Do away with all sensual pleasures of the world

158

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FOURTEENTH EPISTLE.-Adorn thy Temple in modest apparel. 159 FIFTEENTH EPISTLE. The Saviour of the World stands by waiting

160

SIXTEENTH EPISTLE.-The Son of God comes in the clouds of

Heaven

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SEVENTEENTH EPISTLE.-Efficacy of Christ's Resurrection.... 169 EIGHTEENTH EPISTLE.-Embrace the Holy Scriptures. We

want no new Faith......

NINETEENTH EPISTLE.-The Ministration of Angels

TWENTIETH EPISTLE.-The Poor in want of Bibles. Title,

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EIGHTH CHAPTER.-On the Incarnation and Natures of Christ. 202 NINTH CHAPTER.-On the Union of the two Natures of Christ

in one and the same person

Note on the Deity of Christ

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PREFACE.

IN sending forth this book, the author disavows every motive but the sole one of being useful.Having travelled for a series of twenty-one years, on the continent of Europe and in Ireland, on his return to North Wales, he saw the evil and falsehood of Unitarianism, and there wrote the pages which are now offered to the public, in the humble hope, that He who giveth he increase, even to the meanest labourer in His vineyard, may cause some fruit to raise from his labour.

Indeed, when he considers the greatness of that God, and the importance of those doctrines which he advocates, he has no fear upon this head.— Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Outward nature itself attests His

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