Excerpt from A Letter to the Rev. Of Justification, or the Vulgar Notion of Imputed Righteousness Shewn to Be Groundless He hath fometimes fancied, that the jult definition of man is religious, ' or capable of religion.' becaufe it may be queltioned, whether other animals cannot reafon. The more he knows of the religious world, the more he is in danger of quefiioning, whether all men can. Happily for mankind, to believe what Goo hath declared, in language plain enough for them to underltand, falls within the compafs of all who are concerned to have and exercife that faith and worlhip which He requires, fimply as needful to their prefent and eternal welfare. And it feems to him. That nothing hinders this benign in tention from taking place fo much as the conceit, which the molt ignorant and ltupid. Fondly entertain, that they are capable of recyoning about things the molt abflrufe; and for the difcovery of which even the notices given in Holy Scripture are infuflicient. Alas! When(5) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.