UPON QUESTIONS IN CONTROVERSIAL THEOLOGY AND PRACTICAL RELIGION. BY ORVILLE DEWEY, D.D. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH IN NEW-YORK, NEW-YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO. 252 BROADWAY. BOSTON: J. H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON STREET. 1846. C1179.10 (3) HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, BY C. S. FRANCIS & CO. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New Yor PRINTED BY MUNROE AND FRANCIS, BOSTON. 375 9-2 46-166 PREFACE. THE Volume, here offered to the public, is designed to give a comprehensive reply to the question, What is Unitarianism? Many persons feel the want of something of this nature; something beyond the brief compass of a Tract, and within the limits of a Volume, which they could give or point out, to those who are asking, "What are your general views of religion? What are your views of the Scriptures, of faith in them, and of the doctrines and principles which they teach ?" Such inquirers are often not sufficiently interested to gather the information they seek, from scattered tracts, or to hunt for it through twenty volumes; nor, if they were, is it likely that the tracts or volumes would be within their reach. The present volume will perhaps satisfy the questions, that are already in their minds; and if it raises questions which it does not settle, they must be referred to other sources. In particular, reference may be made, on the Trinity, to Norton's Statement of Reasons; on the Offices of Christ, to Ware's Discourses; on the general subject, to Sparks's Inquiry, Yates's Vindication, Peabody's and Burnap's Lectures, and the Works of Channing; and for our practical views of religion, to the Discourses of Freeman, Buckminster, Thatcher, Abbot, Parker, Cappe and Channing, besides those of many living writers. |