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312 should seem to any one attractive chiefly on account of their novelty or their seeming freedom from mystery, let such an one on that very account be the more careful about inquiring into their Truth. For indeed a spirit of reverence for the faintest reflexion of the Divine is a temper of mind not lightly to be parted with : and as to anything which is newer in substance or in spirit than the New Testament, be sure its apparent freshness is but as that of the grass of the field which to-day is and to-morrow will be cast into the oven. The Word of the LORD alone endureth for ever : and this is the Word which by the GOSPEL is preached unto you. And especially if any such shall think, after the same patient inquiry, that any thing in these Pages is certainly unevangelical or untrue, let him utter loud protest against it. As far as their writer is concerned, so doing will certainly not give rise to controversy, and it may to conviction. GOD grant us all, as in the world to come Everlasting Life, so in this world, Knowledge of His Truth.


 * 18 September, 1841.

CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.