subject of these Memoirs. I have been accustomed to trace his exertions as a scholar and a Reformer with admiration. In both respects it must be admitted he was a light in a dark place; and though it is the province of an impartial biographer in furnishing a detailed view of his life and labours in connexion with other eminent men of his remarkable age, to notice errors of judgment and imbecilities of mind which are indeed incident to every human character, the reader will be presented with the view of as much excellence, associated with as little defect as is to be expected in the present world.
No one surely can mistake the purpose of this volume so much as to suppose that the author pledges himself to believe the creed or to vindicate all the opinions of its