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To which are added, Some REFLECTIONS upon the comparative Excellency and Usefulness of moral and positive Duties. Occafioned by the Controverfy that has arifen (with Refpect to this Subject) upon the Publication of Dr. Clark's Expofition of the Church Catechifm. By THOMAS CHUBB LONDON: Printed for T. Cox at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange. M,DCC,XXXIII. A DISCOURSE CONCERNING REASON, Wherein is fhewn, That Reason is, or ought to be, a fufficient guide in matters of religion. B Y reafon, I understand that faculty or power of the mind, by which men difcern and judge of right and wrong, of good and evil, of truth and error, and the like. By matters of religion, I understand those things which men are accountable for to the Maker and Goyernor of the univerfe, and thereby render themfelves the proper objects of reward or punishment. By a guide in Matters of religion, I understand an ability or capacity (if carefully and faithfully exercifed) to difcover what it is which man, in reafon and equity, is accountable for, and which will render him the proper object of divine favour or displeasure; and likewife a capacity to discover luch motives to a right behaviour, as will be a baA 2 lance lance to all those temptations which the prefent constitution of things unavoidably fubjects him to. And, by a fufficient guide in matters of religion, I understand fuch a capacity or power in man, when duly exercifed, as is Sufficient to answer thefe purposes, without any thing fuperadded; and which will render him, in juftice and equity, inexcufable if he mifcarries. Having thus explained the terms which conftitute the above propofition, I obferve, that the point in queftion is not whether there be abfolutely fuch a capacity or power in man, nor whether man can neglect or mifufe it, fuppofing him invefted with fuch a power; but only that he either has, or elfe that he ought to have, fuch a capacity or power refiding in him. Man in his natural state, when destitute of divine revelation, is fuppofed to be an accountable creature, who is anfwerable to God for his actions, and who will be amply rewarded or feverely punished in another world, according as he behaves himself in this. Now, admitting this to be the cafe, then, I fay, that man has a right, by the laws of common equity, to be invefted with fuch a capacity or power, as is fufficient (when duly exerciled) to difcover what it is he is accountable for; and what it is which renders him the proper object of divine favour or diffleafure; and which likewife is fufficient to dif cover luch motives to a right behaviour, as are |