A COLLECTIῸΝ OF THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, IN SIX VOLUMES. By RICHARD WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. AND REGIUS PROFESSOR of DIVINITY in the UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE, VOL. IV. LONDON, Printed by J. NICHOLS; for T. EVANS, London; J. & J. MERRILS, Cambridge; and J. & J. FLETCHER, Oxford, M. DCC. LXXXV. : ! CONTENTS. The Reasonableness of Christianity, as delivered in the Lond. 1727. p. 1. This Treatife was first published in 1695, without Mr. Locke's name; he concealed his being the author of it from his most intimate friends, and in one of his letters to Mr. Molyneux, at Dublin, he defired to know what people thought of it there, for here, fays he, " at its first coming out, it was received with no indifferency, " fome speaking of it with great commendation, and most cenfur ing it as a very bad book." His friend, in reply, informed him, that a very learned and ingenious Prelate faid he liked it very well, and that, if Mr. Locke writ it, it was the best book he ever laboured at; "but," says he, " if I should be known to think fo, I ** should have my lawns torn from my shoulders." Abroad it was greatly esteemed by two of the best divines which were then livingLe Clerc, and Limberch. Le Clerc, in his Bibliotheque Choisee, faid, that it was " un des plus excellens ouvrages qui ait été fait de puis long-tems fur cette matiere et dans cette vue:" and Limborch preferred it to all the Systems of Divinity that he had ever read. Dr. Edwards wrote against it; and his objections produced from Mr. Locke two vindications of it; these merit the readers attention as much as the work itself, which has long been very geerally approved. A Discourse concerning the unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion and the Truth and Certainty of the Chriftian Revelation. Being eight Sermons preached in the year 1705, at the Lecture founded by the Hon. ROBERT BOYLE. By SAMUEL CLARKE, D. D. p. 109. Whatever opinion the reader may entertain of the principles advanced in this book relative to the foundation of Morality; he will admire the strength and perfpicuity with which the whole of it is written; 2 |