SERIES OF NUMBERS

UPON

THREE THEOLOGICAL POINTS;

ENFORCED FROM

Various Pulpits in the City of New-York.

BY

INVESTIGATOR.

NEW-YORK;

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.

Van Winkle & Wiley, Printers.

TRANSFERRED TO MARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL

ANYWER-HARVARD THELOGIC LIBRARY MAREN

August 1725 451,712

BX 9422

To the People of New-York,

THE first of the following numbers was published in the New-York Courier. A note in that paper, the following day, stated, that the editor of the paper declined publishing the remainder of the work, because it was likely to give offence. I preferred a public paper to a pamphlet form, for two reasons; one was, that a newspaper is read by many persons who seldom have leisure, or inclination, to labour through the Essays on didactic theology, found in Magazines, Sermons, and Systematic Discourses. The other was, that I entered on the publication not as a theologian or controversialist, but as a spectator and reporter of facts.

To be candid, the work was principally designed for the edification of those who would be willing to be styled high-toned Calvinists. And it may seem, perhaps, to some, a little paradoxical, that the very first number should kindle such a flame of resentment, as to cause alarm to the editor, of whose correct taste and liberal sentiments I have no doubt, when it is a