Contents.

FOSTER on Fundamentals in Religion.

HINCKS on the Importance of Truth.

LARDNER on the Logos.

Two Schemes of the Trinity, &c.

AN ESSAY

A.15907

ON

FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION,

BY JAMES FOSTER, D.D.

First printed A.d. 1720.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

EXTRACTS FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO

"THE SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY,"

BY SAMUEL CLARKE, D.D.,
Rector of St. James's, Westminster.

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PREFACE

BY THE EDITOR.

THE celebrated Author of the following Essay was born at Exeter on the 16th of September 1697. When five years old, he was şent to the Grammar School of his native city; and from this school, in due time, he was removed to the Academy for Students in the Ministry kept by the Rev. Joseph Hallet the elder, under whose superintendence he completed his academical studies. In the year 1718, when he was twenty years and a half old, he entered upon public life by beginning to preach; but having embraced that form of Christian doctrine which had been recently advocated by Whiston and Clarke, Clergymen of the Established Church, he did not immediately receive a call to a situation among the Dissenters. He soon after, however, removed to a small congregation at Milborn Port in Somersetshire; but finding this situation unsuitable, he found a friendly asylum and