IN an age like this, it is no wonder that infidelity has its champions. The genuine gospel of Christ is a system too pure and divine to meet the cordial approbation of men of vicions hearts and corrupt principles; and such have hitherto composed the majority of mankind. Nor are the friends of Christianity alarmed for its safety" GREAT IS THE TRUTH, AND WILL PREVAIL." Although deistical principles may be expected to spread among the young, the gay, and the voluptuous; yet hath truth ever gained more than it hath lost by such attacks; to them we owe the masterly defences of a Locke, an Addison, a West, and many more, in ancient as well as modern times.

"Sir ISAAC NEWTON had a very sagacious conjecture, which he told Dr. Clarke, from whom (says Mr. Whiston *),

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