EXPLAINED AND ENFORCED; BEING A SERIOUS APPEAL TO EVERY MAN'S CON. SITY, AND EVIDENCES. BY J. THORNTON. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX. I tell you nay; but except ye repent ye shall all like- NEW HAVEN : PUBLISHED BY L. H. YOUNG, No 1, Exchange Place. LIBRARY OF UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, THE CHILDREN OF EDWIN F. HATFIELD. Press of Whitmore & Buckingham. T513 INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW HAVEN EDITION. THE frequent calls for the following work, and the testimony borne to its merits, by many faithful and experienced clergymen, who have made use of it in their parishes, have induced the publisher to offer a new edition, in the present cheap and convenient form. The principal portion of the Author's Preface, being wholly inapplicable to the state of things in this country, it has been deemed advisable to retain only so much of it as may be necessary to explain the object of the work. With this omission, and the addition of a few short forms of prayer, which may be found convenient and useful in directing the devotions of the honest and anxious inquirer, this edition presents the work precisely in its original form. The six chapters which constitute the entire body of the work, remain without the slightest alteration. 66 It was the design of the author of this work, to furnish a plain and concise treatise on one of the most important subjects connected with the doctrines of the gospel:-"to open the nature-to prove the necessity-and to point out the means and evidences of evangelical repentance." Many (the author admits) have written well on the doctrine of repentance; but the subject is mingled with others, in voluminous works." He felt the necessity, therefore, of preparing a treatise on this all-important topic, in a small compass, and in a plain style that it might thus obtain a general circulation among all classes of people. The giving away or lending of books of this description, is among the means of promoting the cause of religion at the present day; and the author correctly remarks, that "those who diligently and prudently use these means, will seldom fail to see some happy effects produced; and much of the seed which is thus sown, may spring up when the hands that scattered it are mouldering in the dust." "If this small work (adds the author) should be blessLibrary of the UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINA New York |