By perusing the above Preface, the reader will get a clue to the time
and circumstance that led to the delivery and publication of these
Lectures. In revising them for a new edition, I have done little more than
correct the phraseology in a few instances, add a few foot-notes, and
replace the last two Lectures by newly-written ones on the same texts and
prepared especially for this edition. These lectures are distinct from the
course I deliver to my thoological class upon the same subject. That
course I may publish before my death. These Leetures have been translated
in the Welsh and French languages, and have been extensively circulated
wherever the English or either of those languages is understood. One house
In London published 80,000 copies In English. They are still in type and
in market in Europe, and I have the great satisfacion of knowing that they
have been made a great blessing to thoousands of souls. Consequently, I
have not thought It wise to recast them for the sake of giving them a more
attractive form God has owned and blessed the reading of them as they have
been, and with the exceptions above noticed, I have given them to the
present and coming generations. If the reader will peruse and remember the
foregoing preface, he will understand what I said of the church and some
of the ministers, and why I said it. I beseech my brethren not to take
amiss what I have mid, but rather to be assured that every sentence has
been spoken In love, and often with a sorrowfud heart. May God continue to
add His blessing to the reading of these Lectures. THE AUTHOR Oberlin College, Oct. 22, 1868.