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SERIES OF THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS.

BY SEVERAL WRITERS.

BEING A

Reply to "Essays and Reviews."

EDITED BY

WILLIAM THOMSON, D. D.,

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND

BRISTOL.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

443 & 445 BROADWAY.

M.DCCC.LXII.

PREFACE.

THE Essays in this volume are intended to offer aid to those whose faith may have been shaken by recent assaults. The writers do not pretend to have exhausted subjects so vast and so important, within the compass of a few pages; but they desire to set forth their reasons for believing the Bible, out of which they teach, to be the inspired Word of God, and for exhorting others still to cherish it as the only message of salvation from God to man. They hope that these Essays may be, to those whose attention they can secure, incentives to further thought and reading. They have avoided, rather than sought, direct controversy. They have excluded personality; they have not spoken with undue harshness of the views they have been forced to op. pose.

For the choice of contributors and the arrangement of subjects the Editor is responsible. Most of the writers gave their names without knowing those of their coadjutors; and not one of them, but the Editor, has seen all the Essays