STITUTED AS TO BE CONSTRAINED TO WORSHIP SOME

BEING. This, to some persons, self-evident.-Opinions of
mankind.--Cicero, Seneca, the Greeks.--Two objections against
this proposition.-1st, No cause to believe in a Superior Exis-
tence.-Paley's Natural Theology.—Deficiency in his argu-

ment according to the Infidel.-Man, no Reason.-Difficulties

of proving he has.-Phrenology demonstrates the Point.-2d.

That, allowing a Superior Power to exist, no reason for wor-

shipping Him. Difficulty to convince the Infidel that his ex-

planation of facts is wrong. Phrenology sets aside the objec-

tion.

Nature of Veneration. — Necessity of Directing Faculties.
Propos. II. THAT MAN IS ENDOWED WITH CERTAIN FA-
CULTIES, ENABLING HIM TO DECIDE UPON THE OBJECT TO
BE WORSHIPPED: THAT THIS MUST BE SUCH AS THE FACUL-
TIES, UNBIASSED, APPROVE OF THAT THE GOD OF CHRIS-
TIANITY IS THE ONLY SUCH BEING.- -Faculties demonstrat-
ed by Phrenology.—Their language unvarying.-Polytheism
condemned by them. Also the Grecian and Roman Gods.→
Also the Gods of the

Also the Gods of the Philosophers.
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, ex-
plained in this, the second argument, relating to the Particular
Character of God, as exhibited in the Means to Obtain and
Preserve His Favour.

Propos. III. THAT MAN CAN DO

NOTHING GOOD IN THE

SIGHT OF GOD, AND THAT CHRISTIANITY RECOGNISES THIS

INABILITY.Some general Obliquity of sentiment.-Aliena-

tion 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.-Man Necessarily Evil proved by Phrenology.
-Recognised by Christianity.

Propos. IV. THAT THE MEANS TO BE EMPLOYED TO OB-

TAIN AND PRESERVE GOD'S FAVOUR ARE IN CONFORMITY

TO THE CHARACTER OF MAN AS NECESSARILY EVIL.-

What needed by Man.-The Christian Method of Reconcilia.-
tion.-Belief of a Testimony; The Effect of this Belief.-
The Preserving of God's Favour; Motives thereto.-Ene-
mies 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, Pre-
cepts. 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 Goverments.-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 Intellect. On the Importance and Necessity of the Chris-

tian exhibiting the Effects of Belief.-The Objection that

Professing Christians are Oftentimes very Bad Men.-Final-

ly, 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 corruption of his nature, have, in general, been such as to increase the many and oppressive evils connected with the fall; and even those, good in themselves, have, from the same 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

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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 uni

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