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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. nounced it the best practical commentary on the Evangelists extant. It is not, however, a Commentary in the usual signification of that term. It is neither a critical nor a popular Exposition, but a collection of Moral Reflections on each verse of the Gospels. In this view it is unrivalled?a repository of original, striking, spiritual meditations, the absence of which could be supplied by no other work in our language. We have nothing (says Bishop Wilson) in practical divinity so sweet, so spiritual, so interior as to the real life of grace?so rich, so copious, so original. We have nothing that extols the grace of God, and abases and lowers man, so entirely. We lessen not the value of our various admirable comments on the New Testament; they have each their particular excellencies. But none of them supersedes Quesnel; none can supply that thorough insight into the world, the evil of sin, the life of faith and prayer, which he possesses. In illustration of these topics the reader is referred to the copious and discriminating Introduction by Dr. Wilson. Meanwhile, the work is submitted to the public with the confidence, that it will speedily become, with very many Christians, of different names and sects, their favourite Hand-book on the Gospels, and, through the blessing of God, an efficient help to their growth in grace, and their true spiritual enjoyment. Henby A. Boardman. Philadelphia, July 3, 1855. chapter{{Section 4INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. The following work is on all accounts deserving of peculiar attention. The author himself was a remarkable person, the book is of the highest value in its particular line, and the controversy connected with it is fruitful of the most important instruction. We propose to notice br...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217444743 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217444741 |
| Weight | 1.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.04 In |
| List Price | $30.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 466 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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