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Writings of Orbille Dewep.
DISCOURSES AND REVIEWS.
Upon Questions in Controversial Theology and Practical Religion.
By Orville Dewey, D. D., Pastor of the Church of
the Messiah, in New-York.
CONTENTS:
THE UNITARIAN BELIEF:—
On the Nature of Religious Belief; with Inferences concerning
Doubt, Decision, Confidence, and the Trial of Faith.
CURSORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE QUESTIONS AT ISSUE BETWEEN
ORTHODOX AND LIBERAL CHRISTIANS.
I. On the Trinity. II. On the Atonement. III. On the Five
Points of Calvinism. IV. On Future Punishment. V. Conclusion;
the modes of attack upon Liberal Christianity, the
same that were used against the Doctrine of the Apostles and
Reformers.
THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION WITH OTHER SUBJECTS CONSIDERED.
DISCOURSES AND REVIEWS:—
I. The Analogy of Religion. II. On Conversion. III. On the
method of obtaining and exhibiting Religious and Virtuous
affections. IV. Causes of indifference and aversion to Religion.
On the original use of the Epistles of the New Testament,
compared with their use and application at the present day.
On Miracles.
The Scriptures considered as the Record of a Revelation.
On the Nature and Extent of Inspiration.
On Faith, and Justification by Faith.
That Errors in Theology have sprung from false principles
of Reasoning.
On the Calvinistic Views of Moral Philosophy.
It is the highest pleasure to meet
with a volume so replete with earnest
thought, tempered with the kindest
charity. Besides the intellectual pleasure
of studying the works of an essayist
so accomplished and eloquent as Dr.
Dewey, the reader enjoys the greater
satisfaction of considering the highest
religious principles and problems with
a writer who looks at them with the simplicity
and dignity of study which they
deserve.
—Boston Daily Advertiser.
The profound learning, cultivated
taste, and eminent ability of Dr. Dewey,
give an interest to this work that will
secure a large class of readers without
the circle of his own religious denomination.
—Journal of Commerce.
There is no living writer to whom we
feel ourselves under greater obligations
than to Dr. Dewey. We have been
touched and moved by him as by no
other preacher now living to whom it
has been our privilege to listen. We
need not commend this volume; and
yet, as we have been reading it, we
could not help wishing, that its spirit,
at least, of reverence and charity,
might find a place in every heart;
that those, who are not convinced by
its reasoning, might yet be profited by
its teachings, and go from its pages
better, and, therefore, wiser men.
—Christion Register.
We rejoice whenever a competent
writer feels moved again and again to
discuss subjects involving the best interests
of humanity. Such we conceive
to be the topics in the present
volume, and which Dr. Dewey has invested
with fresh beauty and interest.
—Christian World.
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