ON THE GOSPEL, AS GATHERED FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST; INTENDED FOR POPULAR AND FAMILY INSTRUCTION. With an Appendix ON BAPTISMAL REGENERATION. BY THE REV. HENRY HUGHES, M.A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, SERMONS INTENDED for POPULAR INSTRUCTION." AUTHOR OF LONDON: J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; 1834. ΤΟ THE RIGHT REVEREND HERBERT LORD BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH, WHOSE PROFOUND LEARNING AND ACUTE CRITICISM, EMPLOYED IN THE CAUSE OF SOUND RELIGION AND VIRTUE, HAVE BEEN SO OFTEN SUCCESSFUL IN EXPOSING ERROR AND ESTABLISHING TRUTH, The following Lectures ARE, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S KIND PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY AND MOST GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. PREFACE. THIS book is not written for Socinians or for any other class of those who call themselves, by way of distinction, Unitarians, for the argument pre-supposes the divinity of Christ, his distinct personality, and the union in his person of the two natures, divine and human, along with the necessity of an atoning sacrifice. Still, however, if such men should condescend to take it in hand, the reasonableness of the scheme proposed might act reversely on their primary errors, and they might perchance be made to perceive that that which the argument, if it be any thing, will not allow them to deny, necessarily implies that which they have hitherto been contented to disbelieve. Those who receive the Gospel as it is, and as the meaning of the word imports, a b |