The Divine Theory

THE

A SYSTEM OF

DIVINITY,

FOUNDED WHOLLY UPON CHRIST;

WHICH,

By one PRINCIPLE, offers an EXPLANATION

OF ALL THE

WORKS OF GOD.

BY JOSHUA SPALDING, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS,
Minister of the Gospel of Jefus Christ.

IN TWO VOLUMES-VOL. I.

"I applied mine Heart to know, and to search, and to seek out
"Wisdom, and the Reafon of Things."

THE PREACHER.

GS Eternity lies open to my view;
"Here the beginning and the end of all
"" I can discover; Christ the End of all,

"And Christ the great Beginning; HE my Head,
My Gob, my GLORY, and my ALL in ALL."

WATTS.

ELIZABETH-TOWN, (N. J.)

PRINTED BY SHEPARD KOLLOCK, NEARLY OPPOSITE
THE ACADEMY.-1808.

75 568 v.l.

District of Massachusetts, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirteenth

day of January, in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Joshua Spalding, of the said district, has deposited in this office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "THE DIVINE THEORY; A System of Divinity, "founded wholly upon Christ; which, by one Prinર ciple, offers an Explanation of all the Works of God. By Joshua Spalding, Salem, Massachusetts, Min"ister of the Gospel of Jesus. In two volumes. "Vol. I.

"I applied mine Heart to know, and to search, and to seek out Wisdom, and the Reason of Things.'

THE PREACHER.

"Eternity lies open to my view;
"Here the beginning and the end of all
I can discover; Christ, the End of all,
"And Christ the great Beginning; HE my Head,
66 My God, my glory, and my All in All.”

WATTS.

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DEDICATION.

TO THE

PEOPLE,

WHO ARE

SPRINKLED

WITH THE

BLOOD OF JESUS,

BY THE

CONFESSION