TWO

piece

DISSERTATIONS

On certain PASSAGES of

Holy Scripture,

Viz: the FIRST

on LUKE xiv. 12, 13, 14.

And the SECOND

on ROM. xiii. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Wherein the Cavils and Objections of the late
Mr. CHUBB, in the First Volume of his
Pofthumous Works, viz. Remarks on the
Scriptures, are particularly confidered and re-

futed.

By JOSIAH TUCKER, A. M.
Vicar of All Saints in Bristol.

LONDON,

Printed for T. TRYE, near Grays-Inn Gate, in Holbourn,
and fold by J. FLETCHER in Oxford, Mr. W.
THURLBORNE in Cambridge, Meff. LEAK and
FREDERICK at Bath, and by the Book-
fellers at Bristol. MDCCXLIX.

[ Price One Shilling. ]

ΤΟ

THE HONOURABLE

Sir Michael Foster,

One of the Juftices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench.

PERM

ERMIT me, Sir, to address the following Differtations to you, in Teftimony of that Efteem you have fo worthily acquired in your publick Capacity, and of my Gratitude for perfonal Favours. In doing this, I shall not presume to fhelter myself under your Authority in order to protect any Thing I have advanced, where

Truth

Truth and Reason will not fupport it. All that I can promise myself is, that the prefixing your Name may recommend the Performance to a more candid Reading, and happily fcreen it from those Censures which Prejudice is too apt to throw out against every new Method of treating a Subject, and every new Argument upon its first Ap

pearance.

And

It is almost the peculiar Privilege and Bleffing of Englishmen to deliver their Sentiments freely on Subjects of Importance: A Privilege particularly valuable in religious Matters. though I would not be fuppofed to harbour a Thought tending towards a Defire of abridging Mankind of any of their Liberties civil or religious; yet, I think, I may very confiftently and earnestly wifh, that they would

make