"WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING, 66 *** NOT IN THE WORDS WHICH MAN'S WISDOM TEACHETH, BUT WHICH THE HOLY GHOST LONDON: W. H. COLLINGRIDGE, ALDERSGATE STREET, E.C. 1864. v. bg. 100. v. TO HIS BELOVED FRIEND AND BROTHER IN THE LORD, JOSEPH BOOBBYER, ESQ., This Volume IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED, AS A SMALL TOKEN OF GRATEFUL REGARD FOR HIS REPEATED PROOFS OF PRACTICAL INTEREST IN THE WORK WHEREUNTO THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN CALLED. PREFACE. THE title of this little volume expresses, as far as a title can express, its character. The object of the author has been to seek, under God, to fix the truths inseparably connected with Old Testament saints upon the attention of the reader, by analyzing the heart and appealing to the conscience. If God condescends to bless, such means are calculated to arrest the mind, and so to impress the truths of God upon the heart, as to defy all the sophistries of men, and the subterfuges of Satan, to uproot the same. "As in water face answereth to face, so doth the heart of man to man." Hence home-and-heart-truths, as exhibited in the word of God, in connexion with His Divine |