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RECTOR OF ALL SOULS' CHURCH (ANTHON MEMORIAL) NEW YORK.

"In it is contained God's true Word."-Homily on the Holy Scriptures.

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"The Gospel doth not so much consist in verbis as in virtute.” JOHN SMITH.

"Liberty in prophesying, without prescribing authoritatively to other men's consciences, and becoming lords and masters of their faith--a necessity derived from the consideration of the difficulty of Scripture in questions controverted, and the uncertainty of any internal medium of interpretation."

JEREMY TAYLOR.

"To those who follow their reason in the interpretation of the Scriptures, God will either give his grace for assistance to find the truth, or His pardon if they miss it."

LORD FALKLAND.

[Rational Theology in England in the Seventeenth Century ; John Tulloch,

D. D., II: 181, I: 398, I: 160.]

BS 475

N56

Preface.

It has been my custom for several years to give occasionally a series of sermons, having in view some systematic instruction of the people committed to my care. Such a series of sermons on

the Bible had been for some time in my mind. With the recurrence of Bible-Sunday in our Church year, this thought crystallized in the outline of a course that should present the nature and uses of the Bible, both negatively and positively, in a manner that should be at once reverent and rational. In the course of this parochial ministration public attention was called to it in a way that has rendered a complete report of my words desirable.

The views set forth in these sermons were not hastily reached or lightly accepted. They represent a growth of years. Their essential thought was stated in a sermon that was preached and published eight years ago. My positions concerning certain books, etc., have been taken in deference to what seems to me the weight of judgment among the master critics. They are open to correction, as the young science of Biblical criticism gains new light. The general view of the Bible herein set forth rests upon the conclusions of no new criticism. In varying forms, it has been that of an historical school of thought in the English Church and in its American daughter. It is a

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