ESSAYS.

PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE,

AND L. B. SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET STREET; JOHN AND ARTHUR ARCH, CORNHILL; AND WILKIN AND FLETCHER, NORWICH.

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THE
HE subject of Christianity—a subject of infinite
interest and importance-appears to admit of a natural
division into three parts: first, the evidences on which
is established the divine authority both of our religion
itself and of those sacred writings in which it is re-
corded secondly, the doctrines revealed in the Holy
Scriptures, and constituting the great system of di-
vine truth; thirdly, the practical principles, through
the operation of which, in the soul, the Gospel of
Jesus Christ produces for mankind its legitimate re-
sults-righteousness here, and eternal happiness here-

after.

Such is the order in which the subject is treated, in the volume now presented to the attention of the public.

The first four Essays of the work will be found to contain a brief, elementary, statement of the principal evidences, which prove the fundamental proposition,

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