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TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION:

A

TREATISE

ON THE

DIVINITY

OF OUR

LORD JESUS CHRIST;

Written originally in FRENCH,
By JAMES ABBADIE, D.D.

AND

DEAN of KILLALOE, in IRELAND.

A NEW EDITION of the ENGLISH Tranflation,
Revised, Corrected, and, in a few Places, Abridged,
By ABRAHAM BOOTH.

I TIM. iii. 16.

GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS,
GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH.

I JOHN V. 20.

WE ARE IN HIM THAT IS TRUE, EVEN IN

HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

THIS IS THE

TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.

LONDON:

Printed for and Sold by J. HARRIS, N° 79,
St Paul's Churchyard;
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STOR

M DCC LXXVII.

LIBRARY

NEW-YORK

PREFACE,

BY THE

7

EDITOR.

HE doctrine of our LORD's Eternal Divi-
nity having been, on different grounds,

TH

the object of long and violent opposition; many learned, ingenious, and able pens have been engaged in defence of that capital truth. Few, however, have repelled the adverfary with those powers of genius, and that force of argument, which were employed by Dr ABBADIE in compofing this admirable Treatife.-Far from contenting himself with dogmatical affertions, and equally far from amufing his readers with curious metaphyfical speculations, on the grand Subjecť of his inquiries; he has recourfe to the teftimony of GOD to that Revelation which JEHOVAH has made of himself in the Bible, and to thofe deductions from it, which are natural, clear, and conclufive

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