Remarks on scepticism, especially as it is connected with the subjects of organization and life : being an answer to the views of M. Bichat, Sir T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence upon those points / by Thomas Rennell.

  • Rennell, Thomas, 1786-1824.
Date:
1819
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    their own intrinsic worth, the memories of those, whose objections they were intended to refute, but will ever continue to shew to every rational mind, how impregnable in poiiit both of evidence and of argument is the rock, upon which the foundations of the Gospel are laid. Foiled in its attempts to forcibly dispossess Chris- tianity of its strong hold in the understanding, in- fidelity would now enter into a sort of alhance with the very faith wliich it once assailed, and would divide the world between them upon equal terms. Creeds, in the sceptical language of the day, are to be considered among those private prejudices, which every man is at liberty to entertain, or to reject, ac- cording to the dictates of his own imagination ; it being a matter of total indifference, among the variety which present themselves to his choice, which he may be pleased to adopt; the pretensions of none are to be questioned, nor are their foundations to be disturbed. Now in this general equalization of opinions, all the landmarks which can direct the un- derstanding, or regulate the assent, are removed; and the claims of truth, as a standard and measure of the judgment, are utterly annihilated. To propa- gate the Gospel with success, among a nation of Hea- thens, the leading distinctions between truth and false- hood must previously be established ; to diminish its influence among a nation of Christians, these distinc- tions must artfully be confounded. This could not be more effectually accomplished, than by inculcating B 2