OF THE PENTATEUCH. A SET OF PARISH SERMONS. BY THE REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY, F.L.S. F.G.S. RECTOR OF EVERSLEY. WITH A PREFACE. Second Edition. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1864. The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 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 very inferior to, what they are now, by the help of your admirable book. Brought up, like all Cambridge men of the last generation, upon Paley's Evidences,' I had |