AN ESSAY ON Unbelief: DESCRIBING ITS NATURE AND OPERATIONS, AND SHEWING ITS BANEFUL INFLUENCE IN DISTRESSING BY THE REV. JAMES CHURCHILL, HENLEY, OXON. Take heed, Brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of un- These things have I written unto you, that-ye may believe on the "Besides the class of those who professedly reject revelation, there is OXFORD; PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. BARTLETT, FOR THE AUTHOR ; CONTENTS. PREFACE. THE Author of the following pages cannot suffer them to issue from the press, without, in a few lines, accounting for their publication. It having pleased God to excite a spirit of enquiry, especially among the writer's young friends, about religion; in his frequent intercourse with them and others of the church and congregation, he has had much opportunity of observing in what particular ways their minds have been opened to the vast concerns of eternity; the various conflicts they have passed through; and their great depression arising from a discovery of the evils of their hearts. He has |