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Title: Letter to the Reverend Mr. Cary
Containing Remarks upon his Review of the Grounds of
Christianity Examined by Comparing the New Testament to
the Old

Author: George English

Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24594]

Language: English

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A
Letter
To the
Reverend Mr. Channing
Relative to
His Two Sermons
On
Infidelity

By George Bethune English, A.M.
Boston
Printed for the Author
1813

LETTER, &c.

Rev. Sir,

Your eloquent and interesting Sermons on Infidelity, I have read with
the interest arising from the nature of the subject you have discussed,
and the impressive manner in which you have treated it.

As it is understood that the appearance of those Sermons was owing to a
Book lately published by me, I request your pardon for a liberty I am
about to take, which in any other circumstances I should blush to
presume upon-it is sir, with deference, and great respect, to express
my sentiments with regard to some of the arguments contained in them,
where the reasoning does not appear to me so unexceptionable as the
language in which it is enveloped, is eloquent and affecting. There
are also some opinions of yours relative to matters of fact, in those
discourses, to which I would respectfully solicit your attention.

It afforded me much pleasure, though it caused me no surprise, to
perceive you to say in your introductory remarks, that these Sermons
were designed to procure for the arguments for Christianity "a serious,
and respectful attention" and, that if you should "be so happy as to
awaken candid and patient enquiry," your "principal object will be
accomplished" you wish, "that Christianity should be thoroughly
examined," you do "not wish to screen it from enquiry." It would cease,
you observe to be your support were you not "persuaded that it is able
to sustain the most deliberate investigation."

In considering Christianity as a fair subject for discussion, you do
jus