Excerpt from The Works of John Witherspoon, D.D., Sometime Minister of the Gospel at Paisley, and Late President of Princeton College, in New Jersey, Vol. 8: Containing Essays, Sermons, &C., On Important Subjects; Intended to Illustrate and Establish the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, and to Point Out Its Influence on Holiness of Life J In this preliminary difcourfe, what I chiefly mean is to repeat, and endeavour to bring you to enter into the great and leading View which you ought to have in your fiudies, and which I defire to have {till before my eyes in teaching. This may be expreffed in one fentence to unite together piety and litera ture - to lhew their relation to, and their influence one upon another - and to guard againfi any thing that may tend to feparate them, and fet them in op pofition one to another. This is, of more confe quence, and indeed of more difficulty than perhaps you will as yet be able to apprehend experience, however, has taught me to view it in a molt impor tant light. Some perfons truly, and perhaps emi nently pious, from an inward convieiion that reli gion is better than all the learning In the world; and' perhaps obferving that ill-principled perfons, the more learning they have, are the more dangerous to the truth - have come to defpife learning itfelf, as if the natural talent was to blame for the moral depravity. Of thofe who profefs religion, fcme alfo, from a forward zeal, are impatient to begin. 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.