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ELEMENTS OF DIVINITY: A Concise And Comprehensive View Of Bible Theology
ELEMENTS OF DIVINITY: A Concise And Comprehensive View Of Bible Theology
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ELEMENTS OF DIVINITY
The former treatise by the author, styled "Elements of Divinity," related exclusively to the doctrines of Christianity. When that work was published, it was his purpose, at no distant day, to prepare a second volume, embracing the evidences, the morals, and the institutions of Christianity, comprising in the two volumes a complete system of Bible theology. Since the issue of the first volume much of his time and labor have been devoted to such research and investigation, as he deemed important to the better accomplishment of his original purpose.
As he progressed in the work, he became convinced that for the perfecting of his plan it would be necessary to revise and enlarge the first volume, not only by further elaborating many portions of it, but by adding thereto eight or ten chapters of new matter.
The first part of the work now offered the public comprises the matter contained in the "Elements of Divinity," in a revised, improved, and more elaborated and systematic form, together with eight or ten chapters entirely new, on topics merely glanced at in the former volume. The second, third, and fourth embrace the evidences, morals, and institutions of Christianity -- topics entirely omitted in the former work.
The more natural order in the presentation of the great themes embraced in this work would have required the evidences of Christianity to occupy a position at the commencement. But as the great staple doctrines of Christianity are more important in their nature and less intricate and perplexing to most Christians, as well as more essential to the young minister in the beginning of his labors, it was deemed the better plan, in view of utility, to devote Part I to the doctrines, reserving to Part II the evidences of Christianity.
The former treatise by the author, styled "Elements of Divinity," related exclusively to the doctrines of Christianity. When that work was published, it was his purpose, at no distant day, to prepare a second volume, embracing the evidences, the morals, and the institutions of Christianity, comprising in the two volumes a complete system of Bible theology. Since the issue of the first volume much of his time and labor have been devoted to such research and investigation, as he deemed important to the better accomplishment of his original purpose.
As he progressed in the work, he became convinced that for the perfecting of his plan it would be necessary to revise and enlarge the first volume, not only by further elaborating many portions of it, but by adding thereto eight or ten chapters of new matter.
The first part of the work now offered the public comprises the matter contained in the "Elements of Divinity," in a revised, improved, and more elaborated and systematic form, together with eight or ten chapters entirely new, on topics merely glanced at in the former volume. The second, third, and fourth embrace the evidences, morals, and institutions of Christianity -- topics entirely omitted in the former work.
The more natural order in the presentation of the great themes embraced in this work would have required the evidences of Christianity to occupy a position at the commencement. But as the great staple doctrines of Christianity are more important in their nature and less intricate and perplexing to most Christians, as well as more essential to the young minister in the beginning of his labors, it was deemed the better plan, in view of utility, to devote Part I to the doctrines, reserving to Part II the evidences of Christianity.
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