Ebook: The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

AGE OF REitfSON PART I It has been my intention, for several years past, to publish my thoughts upon religion. I am well aware of the difficulties that attend the subject, and from that consideration, had reserved it to a more advanced period of life. T intended it to be the last offering I should make to my fellow-citizens of all nations, and that at a time when the purity of the motive that induced me to it, could not admit of a question, even by those who might disapprove the work. The circumstance that has now taken place in Prance of the total abolition of the whole national order of priesthood, and of every tiling appertaining to compulsive systems of religion, and compulsive articles of faith, has not only precipitated my intention, but Tendered a work of this kind exceedingly necessary, lest in the general wreck of superstition, of false systems of government, and false theology, we lose sight of morality, of humanity, and of the theology that is true. As several of my coll

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CONTENTS; THE AGE OF REASON Paht I-Being an Investigation of True and fabulous Theology; Paixt [L-Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology; P>«t 11L-Being an Examination of the Passages in die Now Testament quoted from the Old, and called Prophecies concerning Jesus Christ An Essay on Dreams; Contradictory Doctrines between Matthew and Mark Thoughts on a Future State; Part IV-Containing a Letter to the Hon Thomas Erskine, on the Prosecution of Williams Discourse to the Society of Theophilanthropists, at Paris Essay on the Origin of Freemasonry; Letter to Camille Jordan, on Priests, Bells, and Public Worship Beply to the Bishop of Llandaff

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