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UPON

RELIGION AND A CHRISTIAN LIFE;

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

THE

NECESSITY AND ADVANTAGE

OF FREQUENT COMMUNION.

IN TWO VOLS.

BY

WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH.

WITH

INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS,

BY THE

REV. HENRY STEBBING, M.A.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

John Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly;

WHITTAKER & CO. AVE-MARIA LANE; SIMPKIN & MARSHALL,
STATIONERS' COURT; TALBOYS, OXFORD; DEIGHTON,
CAMBRIDGE; OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH;
AND CUMMING, DUBLIN.

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THOUGHTS

UPON A

CHRISTIAN LIFE.

THOUGHTS UPON THE MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY.

THOUGH there be many in the world that seem to be religious, there are but few that are so: one great reason whereof is, because there are so many mistakes about religion, that it is an hard matter to hit upon the true notion of it: and therefore desiring nothing in this world so much as to be an instrument in God's hand to direct men into the true religion, my great care must, and by the blessing of God shall be, to instil into them right conceptions of him, that is the only object of all religious acts, without which it is impossible to continue, or indeed to be religious: the true nature and notion of religion consisting in the right carriage and deportment of our whole man, both soul and body, towards him that made us: whom therefore, unless we truly know, we can never be truly religious; and therefore they that begin their religion with zeal and passion, begin at the wrong end; for in

VOL. II.

B

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