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PREFACE.

HIS little work was designed to be a popular presentment of Bishop Pearson's great work, following his division of the subject, and bringing the results of his deep research within general reach. I kept to that design pretty closely, consulting at the same time Hooker, Barrow, and Beveridge. Naturally also I availed myself of the volume on Spirits in Prison by the Dean of Wells. I owe much also to the standard work by Canon Norris on Rudiments o Theology, and to Professor Westcott's Lectures on Historic Faith. I was glad to borrow something from my old friend, W. W. Harvey, on the Three Creeds. Also I learnt much from Dr. Bright's Church History, and Bishop Hefele's Councils of the Church.

I met with a disabling injury in the course of my work, but an extension of time was allowed me, and I hope that the interruption may not have impaired as it retarded the execution, and that the manual may be found serviceable in deepening the knowledge of topics in which all are so surely interested, and especially helpful to those who are preparing themselves for the sacred ministry.

HEMPSTEAD, March, 1887.

JOHN EYRE YONGE.

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