the use of those are marks and evidences of our imperfection, and shews human nature to be in a weak, and in an infirm state, as it stands in need of fuch help: that is, it shews the danger and aptness we are under to deviate from our duty, when we stand in need of those to recal our attention, and to awaken in us a sense of the obligations we are under both to God and man. But when human nature shall have attained to its perfection, by being perfectly subjected to the original and primary law of nature, or reason, then there will be no use nor place for positive duties; then these, like faith and hope, shall cease and be no more: whereas charity, or the practice of moral duties, shall remain for ever. Tell me then, ye who hope to obtain perfection by this Levitical priesthood of positive duties, and who trust to find acceptance with God thro' these, what rational grounds you have to build fuch hope and trust upon? Had not Abraham, our father, two fons, one by a bond maid, the other by a free woman? Nevertheless, what faith the fcripture, Caft out the bond woman, and her fon; for the fon of the bond woman, viz. positive duties, shall not be heir with the son of the free woman, viz. moral duties. So then, brethren, let us strive to be found children, not of the bond woman but of the free. Four TRACTS. VIZ I. An ENQUIRY concerning the Books of the II. REMARKS on Britannicus's LETTERS, III. The CASE of Abraham with respect to his being commanded by God to offer his Son Ifaac in Sacrifice, farther confidered. In Answer to Mr. Stone's Remarks. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Stone. IV. The Equity and Reasonableness of a future Judgment and Retribution exemplify'd; or, a Difcourse on the Parable of the unmerciful Servant, as it is related in Matth. xviii. from Verse 23, to the End of the Chapter. By THOMAS CHUBB. LONDON: Printed for T. Cox, at the Lamb under the Royal Exchange. 1 ENQUIRY Concerning the Books of the New Testament, Whether they were written by divine inspiration, according to the vulgar use of that expression; that is, Whether the minds of the writers were under such a divine direction, as that Almighty God immediately revealed to, and impressed upon them the fubject matter therein contained. IN A LETTER to a CLERGYMAN. |