Excerpt from The Christian Student: Designed to Assist Christians in General in Acquiring Religious Knowledge; With a List of Books Suitable for a Minister's Library In some parts Of the work, and especially in the outlines of the History of Divinity, he had the opportunity Of frequent discussions on the different sections with brethren with whom he is in the habit of meeting. Imperfect as the outlines may now be, they would have been much more defective but for this advantage. But, with every advantage that he may have had, he is conscious of defects in the work which he cannot remedy. Did he not hope, that, notwithstanding those defects, it might be of use, he should have withheld it or had he any reason to think that delay would have given him leisure, he would have delayed, in order to attempt their removal; but he sees no prospect of such unbroken leisure as his subject requires; time is rapidly passing on, and he is unwilling to defer farther a publication which has been long promised, and the greater part Of which has been prepared upwards Of two years, in the contingent hope Of such improvements as an uncertain and distant leisure might possibly enable him to make. Such as the work is he Offers it to his friends and the public. Our igracious Master accepts imperfect services when given in we to Him, and his disciples will not despise feeble efl'orts' to advance his kingdom. 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.