Young Man's Manual Author:Timothy Dwight 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: FROM THE " LONDON MONTHLY REVIEW." " Le Clerc, in his Life of Erasmus, speaking of his Enchiridion Militis Christiani, recommends it to all military men as a ... more »Manual, which would teach them to unite the character of the Christian with that of the soldier. This small Tract may, in like manner, be recommended to young persons, as a Manual well adapted to defend them against the assaults of Infidelity, by furnishing them, within a small compass, with the leading arguments for the Christian faith. The matter is well arranged, and neatly expressed ; and the evidence is as satisfactorily stated as can be expected in general terms, without particular references and authorities." chapter{Section 4AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHY ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN? INTRODUCTION. Not because I was born in a Christian country, and educated in Christian principles;—not be- cause I find the illustrious Bacon, Boyle, Locke, Clarke, and Newton, among the professors and defenders of Christianity ;—nor merely because the system itself is so admirably calculated to mend and exalt human nature : but because the evidence accompanying the Gospel, has convinced me of its truth. The secondary causes, assigned by unbelievers, do not, in my judgment, account for the rise, progress, and early triumphs of the Christian religion. Upon the principles of scepticism, I perceive an effect without a cause. To my own reason, I therefore stand acquitted, thoughI continue to believe and profess the religion of Jesus Christ. Arguing from effects to causes, I think, I have philosophy on my side ; and reduced to a choice of difficulties, I encounter not so many, in admitting the miracles ascribed to the Saviour, as in the arbitrary suppositions and conjectures of his enemies. That there once existed such a person a...« less