Primitive Truth and Order Vindicated From Modern Misrepresentation: With a Defence of Episcopacy, Particularly That of Scotland, Against an Attack Made on It; By the Late Dr. Campbell, of Aberdeen, in His Lectures on Ecclesiastical History

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IF there be any one truth, in embracing which it might be supposed that the intelligent part of mankind would uni versally agree, it is surely the importance of religion, and the necessity of attending to what it recommends, for pro moting the interests of society on earth, as well as prepar ing men for the happiness of heaven. Viewing the matter in this light, it is impossible but that everv serious think ing person, who wishes well to his country, must Sincerely lament the unhappy divisions, which have so long agitated the public mind, on a subject so interesting as the nature and tendency of true religion. However justifiable sepa ration may be in some cases; and however necessary at all times, for the friends of truth and righteousness to with draw themselves from the tents of error and ungodliness; still it cannot be denied that the numerous sects and parties into which the Christian world has been divided, and their almost endless diversity of religious opinions, must be con sidered as one of the heaviest calamities with which man kind-have ever been visited. Nor need we be at much pains to point out this wild 'ifariety of sentiment respecting the doctrines of the gospel, as the most common source of infidelity, and most powerful support of irreligion; since we find it daily appealed to as such, and therefore industri ously encouraged by those perverse disputers, who, ra ther than embrace the pure undefiled religion of Christ, allow themselves to be completely spoiled through philo sophy and rain deceit.

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