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AN

APPENDIX

TO THE

GUIDE TO THE CHURCH;

IN

SEVERAL LETTERS;

IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES ADVANCED IN THAT
WORK ARE MORE FULLY MAINTAINED,

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F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON;

BY R. CRUTTWELL, BATH.

1804.

BX5136 D3

v. 2

PREFACE TO THE READER.

IT

was the lamentation of the celebrated ERASMUS, that the eighth folio volume of his works should be taken up in answers to objections that had been made to his former writings. His words on the occafion were thefe: "Octavum occupent apologiæ. Me, miferum! et hæ juftum volumen efficient."

Confidering the little that I have written, and the fubject I have undertaken, I cannot forbear from lamenting, that there fhould be a neceffity for the publication of a fecond volume, to maintain the doctrines advanced in my firft. And having no defire to engage in controversy, (a fpecies of writing, as it is generally managed, which is too apt to call into exercise those qualities of the mind, which the Christ. ian religion was intended to bring under subjection)

VOL. II.

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