REV. NICHOLAS J. MOODY, LATE SECRETARY OF THE CORRESPONDING COMMITTEE, AT MADRAS, AUTHOR OF "THE VINE BROUGHT OUT OF EGYPT." LONDON: WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH, 1854. 101. d, 402. LL ΤΟ MANY FRIENDS BOTH IN ENGLAND AND INDIA WITH WHOM IT HAS BEEN HIS PRIVILEGE AND JOY TO CONVERSE, AND CORRESPOND, EITHER PASTORALLY OR PRIVATELY ON THE ORACLES OF GOD, The following Pages ON SOME PORTIONS OF HIS BLESSED BOOK ARE WITH ALL AFFECTION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. So few persons read a preface, and so few care about it, that I shall make the present one as brief as possible. I do not know that I have passed over many of the more prominently important passages of that part of the sacred volume of which I have treated, or the real difficulties connected with them, as they occurred to my own mind. I have not, however, thought it necessary to give a separate exposition of texts, which, though important enough to demand it of themselves, have been interwoven with others in the course of the argument, and have thus had a definite sense assigned them. I am not sanguine enough to suppose that the views which are put forward will meet the appro bation of those who have been habituated to extreme opinions. Nor am I presumptuous enough to think |
