The Sandy Foundation Shaken Author:William Penn Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VITB. PRESENTED BY WAY OF APOLOGY, FOR THE BOOK ENTITLED THE SAND? FOUNDATION SHAKEN. BY WILLIAM PENN. i.He that uttereth a slander is a fool."... more » Pror. X. 18. " A false balance it- an abomination to the Lord." Prov. xi. 1. SELIGION, although there can be nothing of greater concernment, nor which doth more essentially import the immortal happiness of men ; yet such is the calamity of the age, that there is not any thing they are less solicitous about, or serious in the prosecution of, vainly imagining it to consist in the implicit subscription to, and verbal confession of men's invented traditions and precepts, whilst they neglect that more orthodox definition of the apostle James, viz. "Pure religion. and undefiled before God is, to visit the fatherless, and to keep himself unspotted from the world ;" Jam. i, 17. and instead thereof, believe they are performing best of services; in sacrificing the reputation, lib- , estate, if not life itself of others to their Own tenacious conceptions; because perhaps,though persons of more virtue, they cannot in all punrctillios correspond therewith. How much I have been made an instance must needs be too notorious to any that hold the least intelligence with common fame, that scarce ever took more pains to make the proverb good, by proving herself a liar, than in my concern ; who have been most egregiously slandered, reviled and defamed by pulpit, press, and talk, terming me a blasphemer, seducer, Socinian, denying the divinity of Chiist th Saviour, and what not ? And all this about my late answer to a disputation with some Presbyterians; but how unjustly, it is the business of this short apology to show, which had not been thus long retarded, if an expectation first to have been brought upon my examin ation had not re...« less