Excerpt from The Scholar Armed Against the Errors of the Time, Vol. 1 of 2: Or a Collection of Tracts on the Principles and Evidences of Christianity, the Constitution of the Church, and the Authority of Civil Government
To enumerate the errors of the time in which we live, is not a pleasing task; it is like dwelling on the symptoms of an epidemical distemper: but to administer such a remedy as the case requires is a work in which every virtuous and benevolent mind will be glad to take a part; and this is the sole object of the present publication. The members of a Society for the Reformation of Principles have no private ends to serve; they arc of no sect, but the sect of the Nuzarenes; nor of any party, but that of the church of England. In pursuance of the plan they have laid down, they find.it their duty to recommend to the notice of young Students, such Tracts as will secur etheir principles, if they are good, or amend them, if they are bad; and bring men back, so far as it can he done, to the religion which prevailed in this church at the reformation. The man who has no good principles, has no reason for being good; and he that is possessed by such as are bad, will act irrationally, unless he acts wickedly.
In the execution of this design, we arc obliged to consider what sort of preservatives the times are most in need of, and then to select such pieces as are most likely to answer the purpose. We do not apprehend it is required of us to furnish such writings as arc absolutely perfect, or that the Society will be thought to make itself responsible for every sentence or page of the works it recommends.
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