Christianity considered with respect to these may be ranged into two grand divisions, forming the foundations of two separate arguments.

Argument 1st

PART I.

General Character of God proved to be conformable and approved of by our Faculties - Propos. I. THAT MAN IS SO CONSTITUTED AS TO BE CONSTRAINED то WORSHIP SOME BEING

- This, to some persons, self-evident Opinions of mankind Cicero, Seneca, the Greeks -Two objections urged by skeptics against this proposition-First, No cause to believe in a Superior Existence - Paley's Natural Theology - Deficiency in this argument according to the Infidel Man, no Reason - Difficulties in proving he has Phrenology demonstrates the Point - Second objection, That, allowing a Superior Power to exist, no reason for worshipping Him - Difficulty to convince the Infidel that his explanation of facts is wrongPhrenology sets aside the objection - Nature of Veneration - Necessity of Directing faculties - Propos. II. THAT MAN IS ENDOWED WITH CERTAIN FACULTIES ENABLING HIM TO DECIDE UPON THE OBJECT TO BE WORSHIPPED.

Propos. III. THAT THIS MUST BE SUCH AS THE FACULTIES, UNBIASSED, APPROVE OF.

Propos. IV. THAT THE GOD OF CHRISTIANITY IS - Faculties demonstrated

THE ONLY SUCH

BEING

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by Phrenology · Their language unvarying- Polytheism condemned by them-Also the Grecian and Roman Gods-Also the Gods of the Philosophers Also the Gods of the Deists-The God of Christianity approved of Conclusion - That this is the God of our Nature.

PART II.

Fact, that Men have never Chosen the God of Christianity, explained in reference to the Particular Character of God, as exhibited in the Means to obtain and Preserve His Favor.

Propos. V. THAT MAN CAN DO NOTHING GOOD IN SIGHT OF GOD, AND THAT CHRISTIANITY

THE

RECOGNISES THIS INABILITY

Some general Obliquity of sentiment. - Alienation of the Mind from God The nature of this Alienation Recognised by Christianity The nature of Virtue as made known by Phrenology - Illustrated by Scripture - The Striking Nature of the Coincidence - Can do nothing Acceptable or Good on account of this Alienation of Mind The Doctrine of Necessity-Term Explained — Doctrine established by Phrenology — The bearings of this Doctrine on the Question.

Propos. VI. THAT THE MEANS TO BE EMPLOYED TO OBTAIN AND PRESERVE GOD'S FAVOR ARE IN CONFORMITY TO THE

CHARACTER OF MAN AS

NECESSARILY EVIL- What needed by Man - The

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Christian Method of Reconciliation Belief of a Testimony; The Effect of this Belief-The Preserving of God's Favor; Motives thereto Enemies Opposing; The Means for Resistance; Threefold - Himself his own Enemy; Enemies Without-1st, The World Why so Nature of the Enmity; 2d, The Devil; His Character-Means of Resistance threefold — 1st, Precepts Love to Christians Adhesiveness, its Effects A Christian Church-The Strength gained by Communion-Individual Precepts Directing Individual Faculties

Remarks on the Nature of the Precepts and the Way of Reception - Difficulty, that Men have Different Judgments, considered 2d, Example, its influence; The Faculties it appeals to — 3d, Rewards and Punishments-Difference between Divine and Human Governments- Faculties appealed to; the Power of the Combined Means; Contrasted with that of Philosophy-Some Examples of their Efficaciousness Conclusion - Some Concluding Remarks on the Necessity of Worshipping with the IntellectOn the Importance and Necessity of the Christian exhibiting the Effects of Belief-The Objection that Professing Christians are oftentimes very Bad MenFinally, The Privileges of the Christian in Life but particularly in Death.

PREFACE.

WISDOM, that will be proved in the course of the following argument to be divine, has asserted, that God made man upright, but he has sought out many inventions. These, from the corrup tion of his nature, have, in general, been such as to increase the many and oppressive evils connected with the fall; and even those which were good in themselves, have, from the sad perversity, been turned to evil by their misdirection. The gifts of Providence, matters quite independent of man, have been grossly abused; the means of sustenance to his body he has rendered the destroyers of his frame; and those intended for the nourishment of his mind have been so used as to produce, not a veneration

for the Author of his understanding, but an impious disbelief of that Being's existence; or, if not of that, a disregard for His testimony, verifying the truth of another assertion of wisdom, "knowledge puffeth up." In fine, intellectual and bodily strength have been, are, and, it is likely, will be, exerted in ways contrary to that relationship in which every man stands to God, as the moral Governor of the universe. So that the same Being had said with truth, "Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me." Hosea vii. 15.

In the midst of this general perversion of what is good, and of defection from God, the Author of good, the Christian is bound to come forward, and manfully endeavour, in humble dependence upon his Creator, to direct the gifts of Providence, and the many useful inventions and discoveries of man, into proper channels; thereby bringing back all matters to their source, and making every gift, every invention, to show forth God's glory.

Within the last century, as well as in the present, many are the powerful intellectual energies which have been exercised in deliver