ARGUMENTS

FOR THE

TRUTH

AND

DIVINE AUTHORITY

OF THE

Christian Religion;

IN

TEN SERMONS:

To which is added

A SERMON upon GOD's Moral
Government.

BY JAMES DUCHAL, M.A.

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand.
M.DCC.LIII.

D

THE

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

Page iii

SERMON I.

Our Saviour's general character confidered.

JOHN viii. 46.

Which of you convinceth me of fin? and, if I

Say the truth, why do you not believe me? 75

SERMON II.

Our Saviour's character, as a teacher of

morality.

MATTHEW vii. 28.

For he taught them as one having authority,

and not as the Scribes.

110

SERMON

III.

Our Saviour's character, as a teacher of

morality continued.

144

SERMON

IV.

Obfervations upon our Saviour's last dif-

courses with his disciples.

JOHN XIV. I.

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in

God, believe alfo in me.

178

V.

SERMON

The character and life of the Apostle Paul.

ACTS xx. 24.

But none of these things move me, neither ac-

count I my life dear unto myself, fo that I

might finish my courfe with joy, and the

miniftry, which I have received of the

Lord Jefus, to testify the gospel of the

grace of God.

209

SERMON VI

The character and life of the Apostle

continued,
243

SERMON VII.

Obfervations upon the Apostle Paul's de-

scription of the Man of Sin.

2 THESAL. ii. 3-13.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for

that day fhall not come, except there come

a falling away firft, and that Man of Sin

be revealed, the Son of Perdition; who

oppofeth

oppofeth and exalteth himself above all,

that is called God, or is worshipped: Jo

that he, as God, fitteth in the temple of

God, fhewing himself, that he is God,

Remember ye not, that when I was yet

with
you,
I told you these things? And

now ye know what with-holdeth, that be

might be revealed in his time. For the

mystery of iniquity doth already work,

only be, who now letteth, will lett, until

be be taken out of the way. And then

Shall that wicked one be revealed, whom

the Lord fhall confume by the spirit of his

mouth, and deftroy by the brightness of his

coming: even him, whofe coming is after

the working of Satan, with all power, and

figns, and lying wonders; and with all de-

ceivableness of unrighteousness in them that

perish, because they received not the love

of the truth, that they might be faved.

And for this caufe God fhall fend them

Strong delufions, that they should believe a

lie; that they all might be damned, who

believed not the truth, but had pleasure in

unrighteousness.
272

SERMON VIII,

The Apostle John's character and writings

confidered,

JOHN xxi. 24.

This is the difciple, which testifieth these

things, and wrote thefe things, and we

know, that his teftimony is true. 310

SER-