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CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY:

OR,

AN ATTEMPT TO DISPLAY,

BY INTERNAL TESTIMONY,

THE

EVIDENCE AND EXCELLENCE

OF

REVEALED RELIGION.

ON MR. PAINE'S PAMPHLET, ON PRAYER, ON PSALMODY,
AND A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS FOR THE USE OF

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THE PLAIN OR UNLEARNED Reader.

BY VICESIMUS KNOX, D. D. K

LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD;
AND NOW MASTER OF TUNBRIDGE SCHOOL.

HOC PHILOSOPHIÆ GENUS IN AFFECTIBUS SITUM EST, VE-
RIUS QUAM IN SYLLOGISMIS; VITA EST MAGIS, QUAM
DISPUTATIO; AFFLATUS POTIUS QUAM ERUDITIO;
TRANSFORMATIO MAGIS, QUAM RATIO.
ERASMUS.

TANTUM ESTO DOCILIS, ET MULTUM IN HAC PHILOSOPHIA
PROMOVISTI. IPSA SUPPEDITAT DOCTOREM SPIRITUM,
QUI NULLI SESE LUBENTIUS IMPERTIT, QUAM SIMPLI-
CIBUS ANIMIS. AT RURSUM ITA NON DEEST INFIMIS UT
SUMMIS ETIAM SIT ADMIRABILIS. QUID AUTEM ALIUD
EST CHRISTI PHILOSOPHIA, QUAM IPSE RENASCENTIAM
VOCAT, QUAM INSTAURATIO BENE CONDITE NATURE.
ERASMUS.

ΠΝΕΥΜΑ ΖΩΟΠΟΙΟΥΝ.

I COR. XV. 45.

THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.

BRITISH

"This kind of Philofophy founded on the feelings of the heart " rather than on fyllogifms; it confifts in the actual conduct of life, " rather than in difputatious theories; it is infpiration more than "erudition; it is the refult of a total CHANGE produced in the mind "fupernaturally, rather than of a man's unaffifted reason."

ERASMUS.

"Only be teachable; and you will have made a great proficiency "in this PHILOSOPHY. It fupplies its own inftructor, even the "SPIRIT, who imparts himself to none more readily than to men of "fimple and artless minds. On the other hand, while it conde"fcends to the wants of the lowest among mankind, it is an object "of admiration to the highest. And what else is the Chriftian "Philofophy, (which Christ himself calls the New Birth,) but the "renewal of that nature in us, which was originally well conftituted "by its Author?”

The life-giving Spirit."

ERASMUS. I COR. XV. 45.