Scriptura non potest intelligi theologicé, nisi antea intellecta sit grammaticé. MELANCTHON. Interpretationem librorum sacrorum esse summum idemque difficillimum Theologi munus, ipsa res, et ratio, et usus, et omnium meliorum seculorum consensus docet. Nam omnis certa veritatis divinæ et scientia, et defensio, e sacrarum literarum intelligentia et accurata interpretatione ducitur; et cum interpretandarum literarum sacrarum studio, et lapsa et restituta est religionis Christianæ puritas. ERNESTI. ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER. BY JOHN BROWN, D. D., SENIOR MINISTER OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, BROUGHTON EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND SONS. EDINBURGH: ALEXANDER PADON. GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON. MDCCCXLVIII. TO THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION OF BROUGHTON PLACE, AND SPECIALLY TO HIS FELLOW-LABOURER IN WORD AND DOCTRINE, THE REVEREND ANDREW THOMSON, B.A., AND THE OTHER BRETHREN OF THE ELDERSHIP, WILLIAM RENTON, JAMES GREIG, JAMES YOUNG, JAMES CORNWALL, ADAM GIB ELLIS, WILLIAM MATHESON, GEORGE CLARK, ROBERT ELLIS, JAMES LAWRIE, JAMES LEECHMAN, JAMES MARSHALL, JAMES LEISHMAN, GEORGE MÉMILLAN, GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW, WILLIAM CALDERWOOD, THESE EXPOSITORY DISCOURSES ARE RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. |