Excerpt from Christian Ethics: Or Moral Philosophy on the Principles of Divine Revelation BY some, the author fears, the title of this work may be deemed presumptuous, and may possibly be censured, as holding out promises of more than it performs, and so of exciting expectations which it does not fulfil. He wishes it to be regarded as strictly and exclusively elementary, having for its design to investigate and ascertain princi ples, not at all to unfold the details of duty, or furnish a practical commentary on the Commandments. Had not the Title, indeed, been formally announced in the opening of the first Lecture, he would now have been disposed to modify it to - Elements of Moral Philosophy, on the Prin ciples of Divine Revelation. In forming an estimate, therefore, of his labours, the critic, he trusts, will bear in mind the avowed extent of their aim; and will not con demu, as a defect, the absence of that which they were never intended to supply. He will himself be satisfied, _if, by those intelligent fellow-christians, whose approbation, next to that of his Divine Master, he is solicitous to obtain, he shall be thought to have at all succeeded even in his limited object, and so to have done any effectual service to the cause of truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.