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gospel age, and these doctrines are peculiarly fitted to comfort and sustain us, in view of that fiery ordeal which is so rapidly approaching.

To the immense multitude, who listened to the delivery of these lectures with such respectful attention, I tender my grateful acknowledgments. My views are now before the public. They are substantially the same, as were held in the primitive church during the first three centuries, and as are now held by men with whom I feel a pleasure in being associated as a believer in the pre-millennial and personal advent of our Lord, such as Melvill, McNeile, Noel, Bickersteth, Begg, Brooks, Cox, Cuninghame, Habershon, Henshaw, and many others. To the writings of these learned and eloquent authors I am indebted for much assistance in the preparation of these lectures.

The Lectures in Part I., on the divine origin of Christianity and other important subjects, have also been deliv-. ered in St. Paul's, and are published as a suitable introduction to Part II. For after all, we must go to "the law and the testimony," and having established the existence of God, the divine inspiration of the Bible, and

co-existing men; and proposes to solve the difficulty by altering the transla tion of the word genetai, the Second Aorist Subjunctive of the word ginomai. He endeavors to shew, that this word in Matt. xxiv. 34, and Luke xxi. 32 does not denote complete fulfilment, but fulfilment commenced, and accordingly he renders the passage,-"this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilling." According to this view our Lord declared, that the generation of men then living on the earth should see the course of events, which he had predicted, beginning to be fulfilled: and such was the fact, for, that generation witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem with its antecedent signs. It is quite probable that the generation now living, or at least a portion. of it, may see our Lord's prophecy completely fulfilled by his Second Adzvent in glory.]

man's responsibility for his belief, the only question is,What is written in the Word of the Lord? How readest thou? May the Holy Spirit give efficacy to his own truth, and enable his servant to gather oUT OF the world, a multitude of such as shall be saved. May the Lord speedily "accomplish the number of his elect, and hasten his kingdom."*

CINCINNATI, March 8th, 1843.

EDWARD WINTHROP.

Burial Service of the Church of England. See Part II. Lecture VIL

PART I,

DIVINE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY,

AND

OTHER IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.

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