Observations on Mr. Chubb's Discourse Concerning Reason; Wherein His Attempt to Prove, That Reason Either Is, or Ought to Be, a Sufficient Guide in ... by Anthony Bliss, A.M. Vicar of Portsmouth - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1731 Excerpt: ... OBSERVATIONS O N Mr. Chub'b's DISCOURSE concerning REASON, &c. SIR, N the late Converfation we had about the Sufficiency os Reason in Matters os Religion, I thought I had faid enough to overthrow all your Pretences for it; but it seems " Mr. « Chubb's DISCOURSE Con« Cerning REASON, fciV. has re-establish'd" you in your Hypothesis, and you are " fatisfy'd "he has fully prov'd, that Reason alone is or "ought to be sufficient to discover the Fitness of "every good moral Action the Gospel enjoins, "and the Unsitness of every immoral one it pro"hibits, together with the Certainty of the Motives "to Religion, the Immortality cf the Soul, and "a perpetual State of Rewards and Punishments "in the next World." In particular you seem hugely pleas'd with p. 21, 22. where " Repen"tance and Resormation are represented as proper "Grounds of Forgiveness;" And tho' you cannot B "fully "fully assent to what he argues about the Satis"saction of Christ, yet you apprehend 'twill be "no easy matter to overthrow it." The high Character you gave of this Performance, made me desirous of looking into it, and I am not a little concerted, to see how precipitately you judge, and how miserably mistake a Shadow for a Substance. Upon Examination I find, that in many Places there is nothing else but quibbling upon Words; in most, the Arguments are weak and inconclusive; and some Things, which you say are sully prov'd, the Author don't so much as attempt to prove absolutely, but only hypothetically; and upon such an Hypothesis too, or Supposition, as I see no Reason, why you should esteem true in Fact. All this appears plain to me; and my Design in the following Strictures is, to induce you, (if I may be so happy) to be of the fame Opinion, Mr. Chubb would seem to proceed with gr...

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