ters, I have prefixed to each Section; and I would say here, that those who will not first carefully read these Chapters, had better lay down the book at once. It will not aid them; and they will do it injustice: they will not be in a position to estimate it aright. A mechanical imperfection in the execution of the Book, not discovered till too late, the want of minute marginal references to the passages of St. Paul from which each paragraph is derived, has perhaps this advantage, that it renders indispensable a previous and independent study of the whole Scriptural Text of each Section. I found it unavoidable to introduce some revisions of the Authorized Version. In this difficult task I have consulted with much benefit the Translations of the late Mr. Edgar Taylor, and of Mr. Sharpe.
As some of the elucidations I have attempted of the spirit and purport of St. Paul, through examples of their permanent application and significance, may seem to place me in the position of a Censor and Reprover in relation to some existing controversies, and some immediate, but passing, interests, I wish to state that the work was written nine years ago, in the service of my Congregation, and is now published, unchanged.