Bibliotheca parochialis: or, A scheme of such theological heads both general and particular, as are more peculiarly requisite to be well studied by every pastor of a parish. Part. I. Together with a catalogue of books which may be read upon each of those points. / By Thomas Bray ...

IX.

Hitherto we have been providing only for a Peace∣able and Practical Divinity, whose whole tendency being to reduce us from the Slavery of Satan to the Obedience of God; to promote in us a Holy Life: And then to humble us in the sence of its Imperfecti∣on, by sending us to the Mediation of Christ for the Acceptance thereof to our Justification; these being, I say, the noble Ends of the Christian Religion; tis pity we, who are its Ministers, should be troubl'd with any Amusements to distract us from being ser∣viceable in such its Glorious Designs, to the Reforma∣tion

and Benefit of Mankind: And therefore it is not without the greatest regret, that I can think of ad∣mitting Polemical Discourses into our Foreign Li∣braries, wishing that the Church of God might be Built like Solomon's Temple, without the Noise of Axes and Hammers: But since through the Artifice of Satan the corrupt Seed of Heresie and Error has here∣tofore, and will be hereafter sow'd in the Church, to the subversion of a sound Faith, and the good Life of too many; to obviate or cure the Poyson thereof, there is too sad an occasion for admitting some Con∣troversial Divinity even into our Parochial Libraries.