CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATION TO

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY,

IN A

COURSE OF LECTURES

DELIVERED IN THE YEAR MDCCC XXXII. BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

AT THE LECTURE

FOUNDED BY JOHN BAMPTON, M.A.,

CANON OF SALISBURY.

BY R. D. HAMPDEN, D.D.,

BISHOP OF HEREFORD,

LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

THIRD EDITION.

HEREFORD: J. HEAD.

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

M DCCC XLVIII.

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TO THE THIRD EDITION.

THIS Edition is an exact reprint from the two former Editions, and page for page from the Second. There was an immediate call for another Edition, and the Author had not leisure for any revision of the work, which has now been passed through the press under the superintendence of a friend.

27TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITION.

Ir is not an unusual effect of taking a particular view of a subject, to give the appearance of overlooking another view of it, no less important than that immediately presented. This is particularly the case in a question of religion, in which the