BRIEF REMARKS 1 UPON SUNDRY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS, Neceffary to be understood and attended to by all By JOSEPH CRUKSHANK in Market-street, M D C C L X X X I. THE PREFACE. CANDID READER, WE ERE it not apprehended by me a duty, thus to offer to thy ferious perufal the following plain and experimental obfervations upon various fubjects, thou hadft not heard from me in this way. I have often, with many brethren and fifters in the truth, been deeply affected in viewing the great danger christian profeffors are exposed to through a prevailing indifference of mind. For when a lethargic ftupefaction hath gained the afcendancy, religion in notion, and fruitless fpeculation, fatisfy a mind fo depraved novation of heart, without which none can be truly religious, hath not been fought after. Pleafed with the fhell or form only, fuch have not been fenfible they wanted the fubftance. A re When the fubtil adverfary finds men in this kind of fleep or ftupefaction, it 16 |