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Matter of Fact and Common Senfe:

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RATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

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Man's corrupt and loft Eftate.

Ye pompous Sons of Reafon idoliz'd
And vilify'd at once; of Reason dead,

Then deify'd, as Monarchs were of old;

Wrong not the Chriftian think not Reason yours;
'Tis Reafon our great Mafter holds fo dear;
'Tis Reason's injured rights his wrath refents;
'Tis Reafon's voice obey'd his glories crown;
To give loft Reason life, he pour'd his own:
Believe, and fhew the Reason of a Man;
Believe, and tafte the Pleasure of a God;

Through Reason's wounds, alone, thy faith can die.

YOUNG.

The Son of Man is come to feek and to fave that which was
LOST Luke xix. 10.

Printed by G. PARAMORE, North-Green, Worship-Street;
and fold by G. WHITFIELD, at the Chapel, City-Road;
and at all the Methodist Preaching-houses, in Town and
Country. 1795.

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To the principal Inhabitants of the Parish of MADELEY, in the County of SALOP.

GENTLEMEN,

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OU are no lefs entitled to my private labours, than the inferior clafs of my parishioners. As you do not chufe to partake with them of my evening instructions, I take the liberty to prefent you with fome of my morning meditations. May thefe well-meant endeavours of my pen, be more acceptable to you than thofe of my tongue! And may you carefully read in your Closets, what you have, perhaps, inattentively heard in the Church! I appeal to the Searcher of Hearts, that I had rather impart Truth than receive Tithes. You kindly bestow the latter upon me; grant me, I pray, the fatisfaction of feeing you favourably receive the former, froin,

CONTENT S.

The Introduction.

FIRST PART,

THE Do&trine of Man's corrupt and loft eftate is ftated at large, in the words of the Prophets, Apofles, and Jefus Chrift; and recapitulated in thofe of the Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy of the Church of England.

SECOND PAR T.

Man is confidered as an inhabitant of the natural world, and his fall is proved by arguments deduced from the mifery in which he is now undeniably involved; compared with the happiness, of which we cannot help conceiving him poffefled, when he came out of the hands of his gracious Creator.

A view of this mifery in the following particulars,-1. The diforders of the globe we inhabit, and the dreadful fcourges with which it is vifited.

11. The deplorable and thocking circumftances of our birth.111. The painful and dangerous travail of women.-IV. The untimely diffolution of ftillborn, or new-born children.v. Our natural uncleanliness, helpleffnefs, ignorance, and nakedness.

VI. The grofs darknefs in which we naturally are, both with refpect to God and a future ftate.VII. The general rebellion of the brute creation against us Vii. The various poifons that lurk in the animal, vegetable, and mineral world, ready to defroy us-1x. The heavy curfe of toil and fweat to which we are liable; inftances of which are given in the bard and dangerous labours of the Author's parishioners.x. The other innumerable calamities of life.-Afd 1. The pangs of death.