1.4.1081 BRIEF REMARKS ON THE DISPOSITIONS TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY, GENERATED BY PREVAILING OPINIONS AND PURSUITS. BEING THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE'S PUBLICATION FOR THE YEAR MDCCCXXX. BY HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D. CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL. MDCCCXXX. TO THE REV. CHARLES TOWNSEND, M.A. IN MEMORIAL OF A LONG AND AFFECTIONATE FRIENDSHIP, THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED. INTRODUCTION. THE questions which are proposed for consideration in the few pages which are now presented to the public, are of a nature important, if not interesting to all. For the believer and the unbeliever are alike concerned to know how society is affected towards an engine of such mighty power as Christianity. It, is, therefore a matter of moment to all, to know how far the present age is more or less sceptical than preceding ones-how far the present state of society is favourable to Christianity-and contains in itself the germ of future good or evil to that form of religion. But these questions are of too great extent and difficulty to be fully discussed in a brief pamphlet, and it may, perhaps, excite some surprise that they should even be proposed in such a form. The best explanation is a simple statement of the B |