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COLLEGE LIBRARY

LECTURES

ON

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

AND

PULPIT ELOQUENCE.

BY THE LATE GEORGE CAMPBELL, D. D. F. R. S. Ed.
PRINCIPAL OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY HOPKINS AND EARLE.

1810.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE HE favourable reception of the Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, and the desire of many to have an opportunity of perusing Dr. Campbell's prelections on the other branches of his theological course, have prompted the editor to offer to the public the following work. The Lectures on Ecclesiastical History the author had prepared for the press, having carefully transcribed and corrected them. The prelections now published were composed for the benefit of the students of divinity in Marischal College, without any view to publication. They were first delivered in the years 1772 and 1773, and the author continued, during his professorship, to read them to the students, as they had been at first composed. Indeed, they were written so closely, as to admit very little addition or alteration.

But though they want the benefit of the author's corrections, the language, it is presumed, will not be found very deficient in that perspicuity, precision and accuracy, which distinguished Dr. Campbell as a writer. His other acknowledged qualities as an author, the judicious and attentive reader will not be at a loss to discern. He will discover in this volume, great ingenuity with no affectation of singularity, freedom and impartiality of spirit without any propensity to fabricate new theories, acuteness of understanding without percipitancy or impatience in judging; endowments perhaps rare, but of the first importance in theological discussions.

To students of theology these discourses will be highly useful. They are more of a practical nature, than his lectures formerly published, and they abound in valuable counsels and remarks. From this volume and from the author's work on the Gospels, the student will learn, both by precept and example, how his industry and ingenuity may be most profitably employed.

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