when it is taken literally, and the literal and essential truths are made to be subservient to it. Such then is the analysis, which I offer you, of the contents of the New Testament. That the analysis is perfect, I do not pretend. To my mind, however, Historical Facts, Doctrines, Opinions, and Phraseology, seem to present a division which is real, important and useful; and which seems to embrace and exhaust the whole material of the records of our faith. "I speak as to wise men. Judge ye what I say." I have now completed the course of lectures on the History of Christianity, which I proposed four months ago to give you. I have given you the results of seventeen years of diligent investigation directed to the study of the Bible, with the best aids which the present state of theological science affords. I leave off, not because I have exhausted the subject, but because, unassisted as I am, I find that my mind and health will not bear any longer such intense and perpetual application. 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