ESSAY I. The Substance or Matter of the Gospel, III. The Ufe of the Law under the Gospel. IV. Mislaken ways of coming to GOD without Chrift. VI. A reconciling thoughton various Controverfies VII. Against Uncharitablene fs. VIII. The difficulties in Scripture, and the different IX. An Apology for Chriftians of different Sentiments. Speaking the Truth in Love. Ephef. iv. 15. LONDON: Printed for G. WHITFIELD, City-Road; and fold at the ALMOST every one of thefe Effays was written above twenty years ago, and fome ot them more than thirty. The author finds reafon to offer his fincere thanks to Almighty God, who has preferved him, even to this day, in the fame. fentiments of Chriftian Faith and Love, amidst the numerous follies and errors of the times. The Reader will be fufficiently informed of the reason of this Publication, by a mere explaining of the Words of the Title. ORTHODOXY and CHARITY united. By the word Orthodoxy, the Author means all those Chriftian doctrines which were generally approved in the laft age, by almost all the Proteftant Diffenters in the nation; even thofe great doctrines on which the Reformation from the church of Rome was built. 1. By the fall of the first man, he, together with his pofterity, loft their innocence and their immortality, their bodies were subjected to diseases and death, their natural inclinations were perverted from that which is good, and there was a ftrange prevailing biafs in human nature, even from its infancy, to that which is evil. 2. In order to their recovery from this ruin, there is not only a neceffity of the pardon of their fins, and reconciliation of their perfons to God, but there is need alfo that their finful nature be healed, and renewed by fanctifying grace, in order to restore men to virtue and piety, i. t. to the love of God and their fellow-creatures. A 2 3. The |