ESSAYS ON SOME OF THE DANGERS TO CHRISTIAN FAITH, WHICH MAY ARISE FROM THE TEACHING OR THE CONDUCT OF ITS TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED THREE DISCOURSES DELIVERED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. BY RICHARD WHATELY, D.D. ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN; LATE PRINCIPAL OF ST. ALBAN'S HALL, OXFORD, AND FORMERLY FELLOW Οὐ δέδοικα τὸν ἔξω πόλεμον, ὡς τὴν ἔνδον μάχην· ἐπεὶ καὶ ῥίζα, ὅταν ἦ "I dread not so much the war without, as the contest within. A root LONDON: B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET. 1839. 1048 PREFACE. A CONSIDERABLE part of this volume consists of the substance of several tracts which at the request of the parties to whom they had been respectively addressed -were published from time to time in the form of pamphlets. A similar request having been made in respect of some others also, hitherto unpublished, it was thought advisable to collect and arrange the whole in a volume, after making such additions and other alterations as seemed requisite. The work might perhaps have been improved by developing more fully some topics which have been slightly touched |