A VINDICATION Of fome TRUTHS of NATURAL and REVEALED RELIGION: In ANSWER to the FALSE REASONING O F Mr. JAMES FOSTER, On VARIOUS SUBJECTS; V IZ. On the Image of GOD in MAN. On the LIGHT of NA-Of REGENERATION. On MYSTERIES. TURE, or REASON. On MIRACLES. On GoD, no RESPECTER of PERSONS. RULES of INTERPRET-On GOD, not an ARBI ING the HOLY SCRIP TURE. On HERESY. On SCHISM. TRARY BEING. Of JUSTIFICATION. On the MEDIATION of To which is added, A Dialogue between a Calvinist, a Socinian, an Arminian, a Baxterian, and a Deift. Wherein the chief Arguments, for the Support of each Scheme, are advanced: And the moft material Objections, againft Calvinifm, are answered. In this Dialogue, the Reader may clearly discover the fmall Difference there is between Baxterianism, and Arminianifm; and how Arminianifm leads to Socinianifm, and that to Deism. By OHN BRINE. LONDON: Printed for AARON WARD, at the King's-Arms in Little THE PREFACE. MANY ANY seem to account it the Glory of this inquifitive and enlightened Age, that Religion is thought to contain nothing myfterious, or above the Comprehenfion of Men It must, I think, be confessed, that herein they widely differ from the Sentiments of the Generality of Chriftians, who lived in former Times. A little Enquiry will convince us, that this Conceit arifes not from a real Improvement in Knowledge; but from a very fuperficial and partial Examination of religious Principles. |