Eight Discourses on the Connection Between the Old and New Testament Considered as Two Parts of the Same Divine Revelation and Demonstrative of the Great Doctrine of Atonement

To conclude; if, whilst others of my brethren have been laudably engaged in reforming the lives, and regulating the conduct of their fellow Christians by handling practical subjects, I have judged it more suitable to lay before them a connected series of Discourses on one great and fundamental doctrine; from the consideration that some circumstances have led me to trace our common faith to the fountain head, more than many others have been induced to do; and to study and contemplate some of the abstruser points of religion, more perhaps than most of my brethren under different circumstances have deemed necessary; I trust that my present undertaking will not, by a candid Public, be imputed to an affectation of displaying deep reading, but to the wish of contributing, in the way I judged myself best qualified, to the support of a cause, in which I am professionally engaged, and to which I am most cordially attached.

Whilst in return for any satisfaction the reader may derive from the perusal of my pages, and from this humble though ear

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nest endeavour to maintain "the faith
once delivered to the Saints;" all I re-
quest of him is, to unite his prayers with
mine, that God of his mercy would bring
this mysterious subject of Atonement home
to the heart of every Christian Professor;
that dwelling with fervent gratitude, on
the great theme of redeeming love, his life
may bear uniform testimony to the sound-
ness of his faith. At the same time may it
be God's will, so to open the eyes of unbe-
lievers of every description, that they may
see the wondrous truths of his Law;—
that all blindness, hardness of heart, and
contempt of his word being taken away,
"the earth (in the strong language of the
prophet) may be full of the knowledge of
the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."