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Pofitive Inftitutions

Not to be compar'd with, or preferr'd before

Moral Duties and Virtues,

AS TO
то

Their RANK, ORDER, EXCELLENCY,
INTRINSICK VALUE, &C.

In Answer to

A Treatife, call'd, The Nature, Obligation, and
Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments Confider'd:
As alfo the Comparative Value of Moral and
Pofitive Duties.

By JOHN CHILTON, B. D.
Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge.

This is a Caufe of fome Moment: It is the Caufe of Plainness
and Sincerity, in Oppofition to Wiles and Subtilties. It is in
Defenfe, not fo much of Reveal'd, as of Natural Religion;
not of the Fundamentals of Faith, but of the Principles of
Moral Honefty; and every Herefy in Morality is of more
pernicious Confequence than Herefies in Points of Pofitive
Religion. The Security and Honour of our Church are deeply
concern'd in this Question. Dr. WATERLAND's Cafe of
Arian Subfcription, Page 7.

LONDON:

Printed for J. ROBERTS, near the Oxford-Arms
in Warwick-Lane. MDCCXXX.

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AVING perus'd your Treatife of the Comparative Value of Moral and Pofitive Duties, &c. and having the Misfortune not to agree with you in many of your Notions; to

afcertain your Opinion, I have recourfe to Page 75. wherein you fay, "I have now run thro' all the fpecious Pretences I have “hitherto met with for fetting the two pofi "tive Duties, viz. of the Sacraments, below "Moral Duties; and none of them appear to ( me of any real Weight. We need not there"fore hereafter be afraid to compare, &c. In Page 67. you alfo maintain, that "The Ufe "of Sacraments may be compar'd to Moral "Duties, and in fome Cafes preferr'd before " them, &c." Page 69. You fay, "The

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