Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion. Glasgow
Full title: The philosophical principles of natural and revealed religion unfolded in a geometrical order
The Dial's edition: Glasgow, 1748
An ambitious Christian apologetic and metaphysical system that tries to show how reason (natural religion) and revelation cohere in a single account of God, creation, moral order, and human destiny. A distinctive emphasis is Ramsay's restorationist universalism: he argues that God's ultimate designs cannot be finally defeated and that creation, including the earth and its inhabitants, will be restored to paradisiacal perfection prior to the final 're-establishment' of fallen beings. The work also ranges polemically and comparatively, including an appendix refuting Spinoza's Ethics (Book I) and a 'perennialist' claim that vestiges of sublime truths appear across many nations and religions.
