ABSTRACT
The author was bred after the strictest and severest forms of Christian religion. He had often heard that Campbell’s Answer to Hume on this subject was the most complete and consummate exhibition of the Christian argument, that had ever been given to the world. He does not hesitate to say, that his conversion from Christianity was one of the soberest, most impartial and conscientious changes of opinion that has ever occurred in the history of a human mind. So much for the abolition of Christianity by force of argument, and the mischief immediately to be apprehended. It has often been remarked, that the mysteriousness of religion, and the obscurity of its dogmas, are circumstances which especially adapt it to the nature of the human mind. Undoubtedly, the book, called the Bible, is one of the most valuable repositories of information, and examples of intellectual power, in the whole circle of literature.
