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BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, M. A.

FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

EXTRACTS FROM PREFACE.

"The task which I have undertaken is essentially historical. I wish to insist on this with marked distinctness, lest I should seem to have forgotten at any time that the Bible is more than a collection of Scriptures. The Bible may be treated historically or theologically. Neither treatment is complete in itself; but the treatments are separable; and, here, as elsewhere, the historical foundation rightly precedes and underlies the theological interpretation."

"The moral of the History of the Bible is full of the noblest lessons for all times, and not least for our own. If I am not wholly wrong in interpreting the sure facts which I have recorded, they teach us that the formation of the collection of Holy Scriptures was-to use a term which ought never to be supposed even to veil the action of a Present God-according to natural laws that slowly and with an ever-deepening conviction the Churches received, after trial, and in some cases after doubt and contradiction, the books which we now receive that the religious consciousness which was quickened by the words of prophets and apostles in turn ratified their writings. They teach us that the judgment which was in this manner the expression of the fulness of Christian life was not confined in early times by rigid or uniform laws, but realized in ecclesiastical usage: that the Bible was not something distinct from, and independent of, the Christian body, but the vital law of its action that the Church offered a living commentary on the Book, and the Book an unchanging test of the Church. They teach us that the extreme limits of the collection were not marked out sharply, but that rather the outline was at times dim and wavering, yet not so as to be incapable of satisfactory adjustment. They teach us that a corrupted Bible is a sign of a corrupted Church, a Bible mutilated or imperfect, a sign of a Church not yet raised to the complete perception of Truth."

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE GOSPELS. Crown 8vo. cloth. 10s. 6d.

"The worth of Mr. Westcott's volume for the spiritual interpretation of the Gospels is greater than we can readily express even by the most grateful and approving words. It presents with an unparalleled completeness-the characteristic of the book everywhere being this completeness-wholeness of view, comprehensiveness of representation, the fruits of sacred learning."-Nonconformist.

Shortly will be Published, in Demy 8vo. Part I. to be

completed in 6 Parts, price 5s. each,

A COMMENTARY

ON THE

EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE.

BY

CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN, D.D.

VICAR OF DONCASTER, AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN.

Fcp. 8vo. 48. 6d.

THE BOOK AND THE LIFE:

AND OTHER UNIVERSITY SERMONS.

New Edition. By C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D.

Extra Fcp. 8vo. 6s. 6d.

SERMONS ON THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SON OF GOD;

With a Preface on the present position of the Clergy of the Church of England, and an Appendix on the testimony of Scripture and the Church as to the possibility of pardon in the Future State. By the REV. J. LL. DAVIES, M.A. Rector of Christ Church, St. Marylebone.

MACMILLAN AND CO.

London and Cambridge.

LECTURES

ON

M. .RENAN'S VIE DE JÉSUS.'

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ON

M. RENAN'S 'VIE DE JÉSUS.'

BY

JOHN TULLOCH, D.D.

PRINCIPAL OF THE COLLEGE OF ST. MARY, IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF ST. ANDREW, AUTHOR OF THEISM,' "LEADERS

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London and Cambridge:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1864.

The right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.

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