e^idEffe^s of Ulufuinifiu. a8«



TO THE CLERGT.-



AS this fubjecl is particularly intereftiiig to
the American Clergy, I beg leave to prefent
it to them in a point of view, in which it ap-
pears to me of peculiar importance.-

Fathers and Brethren^

WHILE I fee with pleafure your exertions
in oppofition to prevailing in fidelity, permit mc
to dired your attention to a temptation, by
.whichy as we learn from the preceding hif-
torical fketches, the German divines were
enfnared) viz.. that of attempting to reconcile
infidels to the goff)el5 by reducing it to their
tafte ; either by explaining away, or keeping
out of fight, its Qflfenfive peculiarities- From
the foregoing recital it appears^ that the fecond
branch of Uluminifm, the'German Union, was
grafted on a mutilated fyftem of Chrifl;ianity,.
In the hiftory of the Ghriftlan church, we
are often reminded of the injuries Chrlfl:ianity
has received from the attempts of its advo-
cates to render the gofpel palatable to its

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