PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE, AND L. B. SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET STREET; JOHN AND ARTHUR ARCH, CORNHILL; AND WILKIN AND FLETCHER, NORWICH. 1833. PREFACE. THE subject of Christianity-a subject of infinite interest and importance-appears to admit of a natural division into three parts: first, the evidences on which is established the divine authority both of our religion itself and of those sacred writings in which it is recorded: secondly, the doctrines revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and constituting the great system of divine truth; thirdly, the practical principles, through the operation of which, in the soul, the Gospel of Jesus Christ produces for mankind its legitimate results-righteousness here, and eternal happiness here after. Such is the order in which the subject is treated, in the volume now presented to the attention of the public. The first four Essays of the work will be found to contain a brief, elementary, statement of the principal evidences, which prove the fundamental proposition, 5713 4195 332490 a 2 |