A COMPENDIUM OF RUDIMENTS IN THEOLOGY: CONTAINING A DIGEST OF BISHOP BUTLER'S ANALOGY; AN EPITOME OF DEAN GRAVES ON THE PENTATEUCH; AND AN ANALYSIS OF BISHOP NEWTON ON THE PROPHECIES. BY THE REV. J. B. SMITH, B.D. OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; RECTOR OF SOTBY; INCUMBENT OF BAMBURGH; AND HEADMASTER OF HORNCASTLE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. Σπούδασον σεαυτὸν δόκιμον παραστῆσαι τῷ Θεῷ ἐργάτην ἀνεπαίσχυντον, ὀρθοτομοῦντα "Read,-not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. 1836. 240. TO THE REVEREND JOSEPH COLTMAN, M.A., INCUMBENT OF BEVERLEY MINSTER, RECTOR OF HAMERINGHAM CUM SCRAFIELD, &c. &c. DEAR SIR, IT affords me inexpressible satisfaction to place the present Volume under your patronage and protection. To no one indeed could a work of this kind be more appropriately dedicated than to yourself; whose acknowledged talents and attainments have peculiarly fitted you to determine, in all matters requiring sound judgment and nice discrimination; and whose uniform devotion to the cause of literature, encouragement of rising talent, and zeal for the interests of religion and morality, have won the respectful deference and warm esteem of all that have the happiness of your acquaintance. |