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display. They embrace several topics of considerable difficulty; and their practical tendency is uniformly good.

No apology, it is presumed, is requisite for the republication of the tracts now collected, which have long been out of print, and in the hands of very few persons. The Exposition, especially, has of late years been much inquired after, and seldom with success. Many persons, friendly to the doctrinal views which the work advocates, have wished to possess it; and those who adhere to the principles which it opposes cannot justly complain of its appearance in a modern dress, while they themselves continue to reprint and circulate the writings of men who limit the atonement of Christ, and the saving grace of God, in a manner which is conceived to be decidedly unscriptural. These tracts of Mr. Goodwin, which contain an able discussion of some of the most interesting questions in theology, it is hoped, will be of essential service to students and young Ministers, and promote the interests of Christian piety by the encouraging views which they present of the sufficiency of Christ's atonement, and the freeness and fulness of the grace revealed in the Gospel; and by the earnest and forcible manner in which they inculcate a practical compliance with the will of God, in the uninterrupted exercise of a vital and operative faith. To one of his early publications Mr. Goodwin prefixed, as a motto, the impressive lines,

"Small wires, sometimes, massy weights do carry;
And on poor Faith hangs great Eternity."

LONDON,

January 8th, 1835.

T. J.

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BY THE TENOR AND CARRIAGE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SAID CHAPTER,
FROM FIRST TO LAST, IS PLAINLY SHEWED AND PROVED,

THAT THE APOSTLE'S SCOPE THEREIN IS TO ASSERT AND MAINTAIN

HIS GREAT DOCTRINE OF

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ?-Gal. iv. 16.
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.-John vii. 29.
Δυσπήματος η αλήθεια και πανταχόθεν εξιχνευτεα.—BASIL. Mag.

Tenus est mendacium; perlucet, si diligenter inspereris.—SENECA.

Qui vero me errare existimant, etiam atque etiam diligenter quæ sunt dicta con-
siderent, ne fortassis ipse errent.-AvG. De Bono Persever.

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