The Nature, Mifchiefs, and Remedy of IN TWO SERMONS Preached before the UNIVERSITY O F OXFORD, On Sunday, Feb. 17. 1754. By WILLIAM DODWELL, D. D. and Prebendary of Sarum. Published at the Requeft of Mr. Vice-Chancellor, OXFORD, Printed at the THEATRE for JAMES FLETCHER in the PSALM XXXI. 7. I have hated them that hold of fuperftitious Vanities: and my Truft hath been in the Lord. I T has been the great and the fuccessful Art of Unbelievers to mifreprefent those Divine Institutions which They would bring into Contempt, and to mislead Men in the Notion of Duty in order to excuse or justify the Neglect or Violation of it. True Religion, the Chrìftian Religion in particular, is too amiable to be opposed, whilst it appears in its native Colours: Whilst it inculcates Devotion to the fupreme Being to whom We owe all the Bleffings We enjoy, and all the nobleft Hopes We can entertain, whilst it teaches Justice and Charity to those who are placed with us in this uncertain State, whilst it prescribes the Regulation of our Paffions within those Bounds, which may make them useful to the World and to Ourfelves, It carries in a very great Measure its own Evidence with it, and ex |