CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY: OR, AN ATTEMPT TO DISPLAY, BY INTERNAL TESTIMONY, THE EVIDENCE AND EXCELLENCE OF REVEALED RELIGION. ON MR. PAINE'S PAMPHLET, ON PRAYER, ON PSALMODY, 2 THE PLAIN OR UNLEARNED Reader. BY VICESIMUS KNOX, D. D. K LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD; HOC PHILOSOPHIÆ GENUS IN AFFECTIBUS SITUM EST, VE- TANTUM ESTO DOCILIS, ET MULTUM IN HAC PHILOSOPHIA ΠΝΕΥΜΑ ΖΩΟΠΟΙΟΥΝ. I COR. XV. 45. THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. BRITISH "This kind of Philofophy founded on the feelings of the heart " rather than on fyllogifms; it confifts in the actual conduct of life, " rather than in difputatious theories; it is infpiration more than "erudition; it is the refult of a total CHANGE produced in the mind "fupernaturally, rather than of a man's unaffifted reason." ERASMUS. "Only be teachable; and you will have made a great proficiency "in this PHILOSOPHY. It fupplies its own inftructor, even the "SPIRIT, who imparts himself to none more readily than to men of "fimple and artless minds. On the other hand, while it conde"fcends to the wants of the lowest among mankind, it is an object "of admiration to the highest. And what else is the Chriftian "Philofophy, (which Christ himself calls the New Birth,) but the "renewal of that nature in us, which was originally well conftituted "by its Author?” The life-giving Spirit." ERASMUS. I COR. XV. 45. |