RICHARD WHATELY, D. D. PRINCIPAL OF ST. ALBAN'S HALL, OXFORD, AND LATE FELLOW OF First American Edition. NEW-YORK: PRINTED AT THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL PRESS. MDCCCXXXI. 473643 ADVERTISEMENT. THE subscriber has been acquainted with the contents of this volume since an early period in the year 1829; but, although several fruitless efforts had been made, was unable to obtain the command of a copy until within a few weeks past. Unwilling that a work combining so much candor and humility in the search for truth with such abilities in its manifestation, should remain any longer so little known and inaccessible to his countrymen, he has undertaken its republication at his individual expense and risk. Dr. Whately's views, with a few slight exceptions, appear to him to approach as near to pure Scriptural truth as any human speculations with which he is acquainted. It is with the hope that they may tend to diminish 'vain and foolish questions,' and to increase the number of adherents to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, that he now offers them to all who thirst for sound knowledge, but more especially to those in whose lips it should be kept, his brethren in the Christian ministry. Part of the note to Essay V. has been suppressed, because the editor did not feel willing to give any sanction to the speculations it contained, or to afford them an unseasonable publicity. W. R. WHITTINGHAM. New-York, July 12th, 1831. |