NOTES AND DISSERTATIONS

PRINCIPALLY ON

DIFFICULTIES IN THE SCRIPTURES OF

THE NEW COVENANT.

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

PRINCIPALLY ON

DIFFICULTIES IN THE SCRIPTURES

OF THE NEW COVENANT

BY

A. H. WRATISLAW, M.A.

HEAD MASTER OF KING EDWARD THE SIXTH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL,
BURY ST EDMUND'S, FORMERLY FELLOW AND TUTOR

OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

"Every scribe, which is instructed unto the kingdom of hea-
ven, is like a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth
out of his treasure things NEW and OLD." Matt. xiii. 52.

LONDON: BELL AND DALDY.
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PREFACE.

Ir there is one thing more remarkable than another in the present tone of those parties in the Church, which, though differing on several points, yet hold current and so-called orthodox views on others, it is the positiveness with which they seem-whether of High or Low Church sentiments-to affirm themselves to be in full possession of satisfactory knowledge of the matters in controversy. On the other hand, the non-orthodox party appears equally satisfied, that we know all that is to be known about the Scriptures, their contents and the doctrines deducible from them, and on this ground proceeds to argue, that the evidence of many principles, which we have imbibed from our earliest years, is slight and unsatisfactory. Neither has any one as yet attempted to mediate between these parties upon a basis that may be found to be common to both of