PUBLIC ZARY 20309B A? 17 AVD L V. Watts de Ley 1 Rose Hill, Tivoli P. O., DUCHESS Co., : 1st January, 1868. MEMBER of the NETHERLANDISII LITERARY As. Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde] den, Holland. and of the PFRENOKOSMIAN SOCIETY of PENNSYLVA, A vania. MEMBER of the New York aud of the PENNSYLVANIA His TORICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER, Third Class, (IIONORARY) United States. of the NUMISMATIC and ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY of New York. of MAINE, of VERMONT, and of Wisconsin; of the LONG 1 CON TEN T S. A short Defence of the Divinity of Christ ...... A short Defence of the Doctrine of Atonement.... On Subscription to Articles of Religion...... Thoughts on the Sabbath during the Jewish Dispen- Thoughts on the Sabbath under the Christian Dis- 39 X 46 0 On the Religious Education of Children On the Eternity of future Punishment On the Custom of saying “ Not at Home" On falsely saying “ Not at Home” Thoughts on Christian Perfection On the Doctrine of Final Perseverance Objections to some of the Capital Doctrines of Christianity, answered upon the Principles of Additional Observations respecting the Subject of the preceding Propositions and Corollaries .. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. Of the Tracts, Essays, &c. which are now presented to the public,-the two first, on the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement, were published separately, many years ago, in reply to Dr. Priestley and others, who were engaged in writing and circulating small popular Tracts in opposition to these important doctrines of Christianity. Some account of the controversy, and of the success of these short defences" has been given in the Life of Mr. Hey, which was published in the early part of the present year. The Moral Essays, Obituaries, &c. to page 487, appeared, at different periods, in “ The Christian Observer ;" the follow these pages are now printed for the first time. Mr. Hey, during the course of a long and active life, frequently committed papers which his thoughts on various subjects in divinity to paper; but he destroyed a considerable : portion of these writings long before his death, not from any settled distrust of the soundness of his reasonings, but from a fear lest the freedom with which he had discussed some popular tenets, might be misunderstood, or misused, by any into whose hands the manuscripts might fall. Truth in the understanding, and charity in the heart, are, perhaps, the most precious gifts which can be conferred upon the sons of men in their present state and condition; but although absolutely denied to none, they are found to exist with much inequality, both in their measure and in their relative proportions. Knowledge and grace are not inseparable; for genuine piety may subsist with obscure and inadequate conceptions, and much confusion of thought; but where that is conjoined with modesty and due humility, it is more to be valued than all the treasures of natural science, or the most learned and profound speculations in theology itself. Illfounded pretensions, however, are not to be |