'us in the Book which God has given as the revelation and the record of His mind and will:
The discourse, XIV., on National Duty to Christ, is in substance, though in an altered form, a reprint of one delivered before the General Assembly of the Free Church, when retiring from the Moderatorship in 1869. It is inserted here because the subject deeply concerns Christ's relations, will, and glory; because our church has taken herself solemnly bound to place her principle in reference to it in the forefront of all her contendings; and because this principle must be embodied in any legal settlement of the question that is being agitated, and likely to be agitated more and more, if that settlement is to have the divine blessing resting on it, and to operate for the nation's wellbeing.
The author has only to add that the volume as a whole is an earnest however imperfect effort to show, that redemption in Christ through His blood, involving His deity and humanity, and the mysterious never-ending union of the two natures in His one person, as well as His creative preserving and governing supremacy over the universe, is the one great theme of all the divine revelations and records of which the Bible is composed, and that this glorious gospel and the Holy Scriptures, as the record of it, exhibit at once a harmony and a grandeur corresponding to the grace which they breathe.