CONFESSIONS OF A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, OCCASIONED BY A LABORIOUS EXAMINATION OF THE CELEBRATED WORK OF THE LATE REV. WILLIAM JONES, ENTITLED "THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE OF A TRINITY." AND ALSO, A BRIEF ESSAY ON SOCINIANISM. LONDON: MARSH AND MILLER, OXFORD STREET. MDCCCXXX. INTRODUCTION. THE name of an Individual who is far advanced in years, and now known only to a very limited circle of friends, can have no influence with the Christian world in recommending a serious perusal of the following pages. Yet it seems to be proper that the author of such a work should declare himself, and that some apology be offered for its publication:-this shall be briefly done without regard to the charge of egotism. I am a member of the Church of England, because, take it for all in all, I believe it to be the best Church of the present day. I am, however, of William Law's opinion, that the purest Christian Church now existing, is only the vestige of a better thing. Still, it is natural to a person of a serious turn of mind, to wish that he might rightly understand, and entirely believe, every important article of doctrine professed by the Church of which he is a member it was 3 |