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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 217131 APR 18 19:8 CD PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. 1. These collected writings of James Henley Thorn- Well, will probably fill six volumes, of which four will contain all his Theological works, and be published by the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The remaining two will consist of very valuable miscellanea, but it is not yet determined under whose auspices as publishers they shall be given to the public. Some of these are metaphysical and some few political; the major portion are sermons and sketches of sermons, addresses, etc., etc. Of the four volumes to be issued by the Presbyterian Committee of Publication at Richmond, the First may properly be entitled Theological; the Second, Theological Axd Ethical; the Third, Theological And ControVersial; the Fourth, Ecclesiological. The present volume contains sixteen Lectures in Theology, never before printed, besides three separate articles published during the author's lifetime. All these constitute his discussion of that portion of Theology which relates to God and to Moral Government essentially considered, or to the same as modified by the Covenant of Works. To this volume, by way of appendix, are added his Inaugural Discourse, his Questions on the Lectures to his classes, his Analysis of Calvin's Institutes and his Examination Questions thereupon. The next volume will discuss that portion of Theology which relates to Moral Government as modified by the Covenant of Grace. These two volumes are not a treatiseon Theology written by our distinguished professor, but consist of all that 'he left behind him upon those topics, gathered together since his decease by the hand of friendship, and systematized as well as possible according to his conception of the science of Theology. The sixteen Lectures may be reck...