[FIRST SERIES] ON SOME OF THE PECULIARITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. BY RICHARD WHATELY, D.D. ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. Κύριε, πρὸς τίνα ἀπελευσόμεθα ; — JOHN vi. 68. SIXTH EDITION, revised. LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND. MDCCC L. PREFACE. ON Na new edition being called for of the three volumes, 1st, On some Peculiarities of the Christian Religion; 2d, On some of the Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle Paul; 3d, On the Errors of Romanism as traced to their origin in Human Nature; I availed myself of this occasion to make a small alteration in the form in which they are presented to the Public, so as to exhibit more clearly as I now think ought to have been done originally the kind and degree of connexion of each Series with the others, and the plan on which each was composed. On each of the three occasions on which I was appointed to the office of Select Preacher before the University, I judged it best that the Discourses (usually from six to eight) which it came to my turn to deliver, should be not insulated and unconnected with each other, but a series, confined to some one subject or class of subjects; which might thus be the more likely to suggest to the hearers a train of profitable reflections. The substance of the Sermons delivered on the first of these occasions I threw |