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Excerpt from The Canon of the Holy Scriptures: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
IN publishing this work, I am actuated by the threefold considera tion - mi the real importance of the subject, of its being accessible to every class of readers, and of the very luminous aspect it pre sents when closely studied It is only obscure at a distance; and if to some persons it seems beset with difficulty and uncertainty, it is only owing to their imperfect knowledge, or bad method of studying in I was not aware that it was so intelligible till I had examined it with great attention.
For this reason I thought it my duty, in consequence of the very numerous and severe attacks made on the certainty of the canon, to treat it at' large for the use of our theological students; and since that I have felt it desirable to introduce it to the know ledge of our churches.
With this view I have endeavoured to write a book that will be sufficiently intelligible to every serious reader; and it has been my desire, that all unlettered Christians who may have been dis ruthed by these attacks of modern infidelity, may feel themselves, on reading it, confirmed in their faith.
It is impossible to treat such a subject usefully, -at least from an historical point of view, - without adducing numerous testi monies from the fathers, with quotations from their writings, both Greek and Latin. But I have made it a rule always to translate those passages, and never to appeal to any of the ancient doctors.
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