THE GOSPEL OF THE PENTATEUCH. A SET OF PARISH SERMONS, BY THE REV. C. KINGSLEY, F.L.S., F.G.S., ETC. WITH A PREFACE. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. LONDON: PARKER, SON, AND BOURN, WEST STRAND. 1863. 100. S. 14. PREFACE. TO THE REV. CANON STANLEY. MY DEAR STANLEY, I dedicate these sermons to you, not that I may make you responsible for any doctrine or statement contained in them, but as the simplest method of telling you how much they owe to your book on the Jewish Church, and of expressing my deep gratitude to you for publishing that book at such a time as this. It has given to me (and I doubt not to many other clergymen) a fresh confidence and energy in preaching to my people the Gospel of the Old Testament as the same with that of the New; and without it, many of these sermons would have been very different from, and I am certain |