tion of his office, which he was ill qualified to discharge: friends, whom, without their permission, - he will not name; but whom he is anxious thus to assure, that he deeply feels the kindness and value of their services. The press has been superintended and corrected by one, who might well have pleaded over-engagement of a like kind, if, with him, any plea could be available against those of living friendship and a pious reverence for the dead. By another (whose residence in Oxford, his critical acquaintance with the writers of Christian antiquity, and his intimate knowledge of Mr. Knox's mind, fitted him eminently for the office), the quotations from the fathers have been carefully collated with the best editions; and the sense of the originals has been correctly rendered, in the spirit of that context in which the extracts appear. To both these gentlemen an expression of gratitude is due: it is here sincerely offered, in the assurance that it will be cordially accepted. To his publisher, Mr. Duncan, the editor feels it a debt of justice, which he gladly pays, to avow himself under every obligation which can be conferred by attention the most exact, and compliance the most obliging. As a man of business, his punctuality has left nothing to wish: and his feelings and conduct, in every communication, from first to last, have, in all instances, been the most liberal, enlarged, and gentlemanlike. ERRATA. VOL. I. Page 16. last line of note, for "them all " read "her fall." 28. line 13. from bottom, between "the" and "image "insert "same." 53. 1. 13. for "Sylla" read " Scylla." 190. 1. 7. from bottom, for "a "read "and." 247. 1. 13. from bottom, for "writers " read "tenets. 316. 1. 2. from the bottom of text, for "viribus " read "verbis." 382. 1. 19. before "Timothy" dele "St." VOL. II. Page 105. line 14. from bottom, for "moral" read "whole." 108. 1. 15. for "second" read "sacred." 123. in the note, for now read nov. 127. 1. 6. from the bottom, for "opportunity" read " opponents. LETTER TO D. PARKEN, ESQ., ON THE LEADING CHRISTIAN UNIV. OF ON CHRISTIANITY, AS THE WAY OF PEACE AND TRUE HAPPINESS. MY DEAR January 2. 1805. I WISHED to have seen you again, before you left Dublin. I hope and trust that, if any thing, in my last conversation, appeared exceptionable, it was in manner and expression only, and not in the substance of my sentiments. I am unconscious of holding any principle, in which all the most enlightened of the Catholic church do not agree with me, except that I, probably, think a state of uniform victory attainable here; which the followers of St. Austin, whether Romanists or Protestants, seem not to admit; but our best English divines are generally on my side. It was not, however, this matured state of grace, which I meant to talk about in that conversation; it was rather about Christianity itself, as described in the New Testament. But I am by no means sure that I expressed myself so clearly, as not to have appeared to confound the one with the other. Except I am stopped, and questioned, in conversation, I am apt to roll on, without due attention to distinctions which I perceive myself; and, therefore, I think, perhaps, that those whom I talk |