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 PREFATORY NOTE

BY THE EDITOR. Y worthy and most estimable friend, the Rev. Dr. Threshie, thinks I should say a word by way of preface in laying this little volume before an intelligent and discerning public. This duty, I feel, would have been much better discharged had he himself undertaken it, forasmuch as he has skill in writing for the press, having earned no small celebrity by the composition of an excellent theological work. He is also the author of numerous religious tracts and Gospel treatises, printed at the expense of that most worthy man, the late lamented Richard Wyper, who sent them to the Highlands and Islands, with the view of gathering the