ON THE DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY, IN CONTROVERSY BETWEEN UNITARIANS AND OTHER DENOMINATIONS OF DELIVERED IN THE FIRST INDEPENDENT CHURCH OF BALTIMORE. BY GEORGE W. BURNAP. "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and "He preached unto them Jesus and the Resurrection." SECOND EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. 1848. c.m Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by GEORGE W. BURNAP, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland. EMMET COLLECTION TO THE CONGREGATION WORSHIPPING IN THE FIRST INDEPENDENT CHURCH OF BALTIMORE: SINCE the commencement of our connection you must be aware, that I have abstained almost entirely from the introduction of subjects of a purely controversial nature into the public instructions accompanying our social worship. It has been my first object to promote in you the great end of religion, a pure heart and a pure life, rather than to make you able advocates of sectarian peculiarities. The Lectures, to which you have been listening the past winter, are a deviation from this course. They were designed to meet the wants of the rising generation, who justly demand to know the reason of the faith of their fathers. To demonstrate to them that this faith is the religion of the New Testament, and not as it is represented "another Gospel;" that it is a sure foundation of hope, and a sufficient guide of life, was the object of those discourses. For the same purpose and in compliance with your desire, they are now given to you through the press. |