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Plan of the Work

Part IV. Christianity—Verity considered.

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IV. In Part the fourth, the religion of Jesus is the individual—supposed religion to which the examination is confined. On this occasion the precedence is given to the question of verity, before the question of usefulness. / If this is done, give the reasons: viz. it being less irritative than the display of the mischievousness, while the Verity remains unimpeached /unconfuted./ This parenthetic note is in red ink. Of this priority, the reason is—that, in case of any particle of belief still remaining, the display of the mischievousness of the doctrines attributed to Jesus could scarce fail of being productive of a correspondent degree of irritation, which in the case of the utter extirpation of the belief would have no place.

Still in this part, the point of view in which the question of verity is considered is but general: the arguments against it being such as require not the entering into details. By this means likewise matter of irritation /for the present discarded /omitted// in particular more especially affecting his person and character left to be displayed in another part in their full colours.

To this part belongs the Chapters, of which the following are the titles. In each of them proof is given of some general proposition tending to remove the supposition of any supernatural character or commission from any supernatural power in the case of Jesus.

 This note in red ink.In the next leaf copy these titles.