Book Description

Title:

The Gospel Its Own Witness: or, The Holy Nature, and Divine Harmony of the Christian Religion, Contrasted with the Immorality and Absurdity of Deism

Author:

Andrew Fuller [1754-1815]

Publication Year:

1803

Location:

Boston

Publisher:

Manning and Loring,

Pages:

184

Subjects:

Andrew Fuller

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. In Which the Holy Nature of the Christian Religion is Contrasted with the Immorality of Deism
1. Christianity reveals a Good, glorious in beliefs: But Desim though it acknowledges a God, yet denies or overlooks his moral character
2. Christianity teachers us to acknowledge God, and to devote ourselves to his service: but Deism, though it confesses one Supreme Being, yet refuses to worship him
3. The Christian standard of morality is enlarged, and free from impurity: but deism confines our obligtions to those duties which reflect our own species, and greatly palliates vice with regard to a breach even of them
4. Christianity furnishes motives to a virtuous life, which Deism wither rejects, or attempts to undermine
5. The Lives of those who reject the Gospel will not bear a comparison with theirs who embrace it
6. Christianity has not only produced good effects in those who cordially believe it, but has given to the morals of society at large, a tone, which Deism, so far as it operates, goes to counteract
7. Christianity is a source of happiness to individuals and society: but Deism leaves both the one and the other without hope
• Part II. In Which the harmony of the Christian Religion is Considered as an Evidence of its Divinity
1. The Harmony of Scripture with historic fact, evinced by the fulfillment of prophecy
2. The harmony of Scripture with truth, evinced from its agreement with the dictates of an enlightened conscience, and the result of the closest observation
3. The harmony of Scripture with its own professions, argued from the Spriit and style in which it is written
4. The consistency of the Christian doctrine, particularly that of salvation through a Mediator, with sober Reason
5. The consistency of Scripture Doctrine of Redemption, with the modern opinion of the Magnitude of Creation
• Concluding Addresses, to Deists, Jews and Christians
• Query to the Author of "The Gospel Its Own Witness"; Reply to the Foregoing Query
• Mr Fuller's Letters to Mr Vidler on The Doctirne of Universal Salvation
1. Expostulations with Mr. Vidler, on his having embraced the Doctrine of Universal Salvation
2. Reasons for not continuing the controversy, and replies to Mr. V's objections to the foregoing
3. Difficulties attending Mr. V's Scheme, and its inconsiostency with Scripture
4. Replies and Defences of former Reasonings
5. Evidences of endless punishment
6. Replies to Objections
7. An Examination of Mr. V's System and his Arguments in Support of it
8. A Further Examination of Mr. V's Scheme, with Replies to his Animadversions
• Occasional Sermons
1. On the Common Salvation
2. The Good Man's Desire for the Sucess of God's Cause
3. The Object and Encourgement of Believers in Praying for Spiritual Might
• Two Letters on the Sickess and Death of a Christian Friend

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