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than their own system. But if that system does prevent me from believing that which God's word, the Gospel of Christ, the witness of my own conscience, the miseries and necessities of the universe, compel me to believe, I must throw it off. I do not call upon them to deny anything they have been wont to hold; but I call upon them to join us in acknowledging God's Love and His redemption first of all, and then to consider earnestly what is or is not compatible with that acknowledgment. As it is, we are desired to believe the popular tenet respecting the future condition of the world absolutely, and God's love to mankind in a sense. I appeal to every devout man, to every preacher of the Gospel especially, dares he adopt this order in his convictions? Must he not confess that he has no good news for mankind if he does?

I have expanded the Theological part of the Essay on Regeneration, and have added to that on the Trinity some observations respecting the Unitarian notions of Prayer. I have also added some passages at the end of the Essay on Inspiration, the purpose of which has been perhaps more misunderstood than that of any in the book. It is against the very low notion of the worth of the Bible and of the nature of Inspiration which seems to prevail in the religious world, that I have there protested. I hold the Bible to be the Book of life; I see it turned into a Book of Death. It is treated in a way in which no other book is treated. The divine method of it is despised; it is reduced into a collection of broken sentences; these are used in the most reckless irreverent manner by any one who has a notion of his own

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