On Nature and Grace, Volume 1

Excerpt from On Nature and Grace, Vol. 1

I greatly desire therefore, as I proceed, to obtain the judgment of any theological friends, who may be kind enough to take the trouble of perusing it. Such criticisms as I receive, will be at all events most useful as guides in the future volumes; as shewing me deficiencies which require to be tilled up, and awkwardnesses, whether of style, expression, or arrangement, on which I may hope to improve. But it is abundantly possible of course, that I may be also shewn such serious faults, as may induce me to cancel whole sheets, or even re-write the whole.

I should have felt such anxiety as I have described, in undertaking any theological treatise. But surely there is no part of Theology, on which it is so easy to fall into serious mistakes, - in which it is so difficult to preserve faithfully the true mean, - as in that, with which my succeeding volumes are to be occupied. Let one important instance of this be considered, as a sample of several. On the one hand there is the danger, lest theological doctrine should be so represented, as unduly to alarm those, who sincerely desire and pray for their own sanctification, but who are conscious of indefinite weakness and inconsistency.

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