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LATELY PUBLISHED, BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

IN FOOLSCAP 8vo., Price 38. 6d.

EXPLANATION OF SOME PASSAGES

IN THE

EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL,

Chiefly by means of an Amended Punctuation.

BY THE

REV. ROBERT MOREHEAD, D.D.,

LATE SECOND MINISTER OF ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHAPEL, EDINBURGH.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“This learned production is well worthy the consideration of the Biblical Scholar. Passages frequently obscure in the writings of St. Paul, are, according to the improved punctuation of Dr. Morehead, rendered perfectly clear and intelligible. We consider we are doing no small service to the clergy in recommending this able and learned treatise to their best attention."-EDINBURGH ADVERTISER.

“This is a posthumous publication, the Author having died while it was passing through The Editor is the press. It had, however, been committed to able and affectionate care. understood to be the Rev. Mr. Wright, late of Borthwick, between whom and Dr. Morehead the most cordial esteem and regard subsisted, although they were clergymen of different denominations. In the preface to the treatise, Mr. W. alludes to Dr. Morehead in terms of veneration and affection, in which those who had the best opportunities of appreciating that eminent individual in the pulpit and in private life will the most cordially cide."-Tarr's MAGAZINE.

"Everybody, especially within the last three years, has heard of Erastianism, though few, we believe, have anything beyond a vague, if not a false idea of what it means; and as for Erastus himself, he may have been brother to Prester John, for all that is known about him by many that most glibly malign his memory by misrepresenting his doctrines. The labours of Dr. Lee, who has translated both the Treatise of Erastus, and the Preface of Melchior Adam, are particularly well timed. Every one may now learn who was this terrible heresiarch, and what really were his doctrines as to Church Government; for no farther than this do those opinions, which have made him so obnoxious to the clergy, and his name a kind of byeword, go in the way even of alleged error. We commend the whole work to the best attention of our readers."-TAIT'S MAGAZINE.

"This Book, in consequence of the notice which the subject has lately attracted, may be expected to be in the hands of every one wishing to obtain clear notions of the matter. We give it our hearty recommendation. The original Work of Erastus has hitherto been little known in this country-and important as it is in itself, the value of it is still further increased by the learned and judicious Preface from the pen of Dr. Lee."-EDINBURGH EVENING POST.

"This is a valuable translation of an able work, much needed, and well worthy of general attention. "The Erastians," "The Erastian Church," "The Erastian Establishment," and such like terms, have been applied with great energy to the Church of Scotland by its Free Church adversaries. The term "Erastian" seems, in their eyes, to comprehend every species of heretical wickedness. All their splenetic humours, all their aversion to the Establishment, all their vague ideas of irreligion, and all their horror at the profanation of the sanctuary by secular feet, are embodied in one crude mass, and expressed by that word "Erastian;" and then the strong emphatic hiss with which it is knocked out--for all the world like a saw crashing through a piece of rotten timber-is truly edifying. It gives the word tenfold force and expression, which, even to one who had never before heard it, would convey an unmistakeable idea of something to be disliked, shunned, and, when the term falls from the lips of pious ladies, something to be shuddered at as an unclean thing. After all this, it may seem somewhat strange to Free Church ears to be told that both the clergy and laity of the Establishment are fully as far as their own luminaries from holding any doctrine in common with Erastus; and, farther, instead of being the irreligious character that their imaginations must have pictured him, had his doctrines approved by many of the most eminent of the early Swiss Reformers, and is generally described as one of the most pious and learned men of his times.-ABERDEEN HERALD.

11 SOUTH ST DAVID'S STREET, EDINBURGH.

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"The very free use which has been made of late of the name of Erastus, has led to this publication of his opinions in an English dress, on the fair principle that he ought to be allowed to speak for himself. His works regarding Church Government are included in two theses, here re-printed. The point he discusses is the following:-Whether excommunication be a Divine ordinance or a human invention ? By excommunication, he understands exclusion from participation in the sacraments, because of sin committed, for the purpose of producing repentance. The sum and substance of his doctrine is this, that excommunication is not a divine ordinance but a device of men: in other words, that the sins of professing Christian people should be punished by the Christian magistrate with civil penalties, not by pastors and elders denying them access to the sacraments. In his whole works there is not one word of those questions which have distracted the Church of Scotland of late years. It betrays, therefore, either gross ignorance, or something worse, to impute Erastianism to the Established Church. At the present time this is a seasonable publication, and we have no doubt but it will be perused with interest.ABERDEEN JOURNAL.

IN 18MO., Price 1s. 6d.

ENCHIRIDION,

OR,

MANUAL OF MEDITATIONS,

BY FRANCIS QUARLES,

AUTHOR OF THE EMBLEMS.

WITH A LIFE BY HIS WIDOW.

Reqrinted from the Edition of 1668.

"Few uninspired works contain the same amount of solid sense in such small compass."."-FREE CHURCH MAGAZINE.

"Replete with lofty wisdom which reminds us of Bacon."-EVENING POST.