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PREFACE. THE substance of this little work was prepared and read as a Paper containing a reply to the question, “Did the Apostolic or Primitive Chris tian Church believe in the Divine Humanity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?” At the request of those who heard the Paper read, it has been rewritten and enlarged, to some extent, and is now published, with the hope that it may prove useful in making known the faith of the early Church, on the great doctrine which lies at the foundation of the Christian religion. Much more evidence might be adduced of the same character, from the works of the Anti-Nicene Fathers. Some of them have left their views very fully and clearly expressed. It is designed, how ever, in this little work, to give only a brief digest of the writings of the Fathers on the Doctrine of the Lord. Their writings are now quite acces- (iii)