ON

Unbelief:

DESCRIBING

ITS NATURE AND OPERATIONS,

AND SHEWING

ITS BANEFUL INFLUENCE IN DISTRESSING

AWAKENED AND RENEWED SOULS.

BY THE

REV. JAMES CHURCHILL,

HENLEY, OXON.

Take heed, Brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Heb. iii. 12.

These things have I written unto you, that-ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 John v. 13.

“ Besides the class of those who professedly reject revelation, there is

another,--which may be called the class of half unbelievers ;-byt let these “inen be reminded there is no middle way.” Wilberforge's Praetkal

View.

OXFORD; PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. BARTLETT, FOR THE AUTHOR Sold also by CONDER, Bucklersbury, and WILLIAMS, Stationers' Court, London; Norton, Henley; and

RUSHER, Reading.

1811.

141

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729

TO

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST

AND

THE CONGREGATION

MEETING FOR DIVINE WORSHIP

IN

ROTHER FIELD GRAYS,

HENLEY-UPON-THAMES,

THE FOLLOWING ESSAY

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIRED,

BY

THEIR FRIEND AND PASTOR,

AS A TESTIMONY OF HIS RESPECT FOR THEM, AND

OF HIS CONCERN FOR THEIR ETERNAL WELFARE.

CONTENTS.

Chap.

Page

I. Introductory Observations .

II. The nature and operations of unbelief, par-

ticularly as leading to a rejection of the

gospel...

8

III. The causes of unbelief .

52

IV. The particular effects of unbelief, consi-

dered in reference to newly awakened souls

and real believers

70

V. Remedies and cautions against Unbelief .. 134

VI. Concluding Address

156

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