"life and immortality" are brought to light, and which only can be lastingly useful, by making wise unto salvation, through faith in that Saviour they so clearly reveal. To lead the mind of inquiring man to those invaluable letters, much has been done, and much still is doing.
Notwithstanding, however, all that has been done, much yet remains to be accomplished. The Scriptures can never be made too easy to be understood. This sacred,-this infallible source of information, will never be exhausted, nor will ever its important contents be too attractive.
Among a number of common-place books to the Bible, and Scripture references, well adapted to answer this design, to which the Author of these "SCRIPTURE BALANCES" has paid attention, he has not observed any in which the Promises and Threatenings, applicable to opposite characters and practices, have been collated and opposed, in such a way, as at once to present the reader with a view of the awful dissimilarity of conduct, experience, and prospect, which exists betwixt those who serve God, and those who serve him not.
In the present volume, an attempt has been made to supply this obvious want, and not to set aside those very excellent works of a similar kind, in some respects, by LOCK, STRUTT, CLARK, CHALMERS, and others.
That it may be instrumental in making some "mighty in the Scriptures," and of leading many to an enjoyment of the salvation they reveal, is the sincere wish and ardent prayer of THE AUTHOR.
BURSLEM, JUNE 15th, 1829.