Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D, Vol. 5 of 12: Sometime President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Dean of Peterborough Had the consciousness of my weakness left any place for expectation that my poor labours should have found such benign acceptance with men of higher place and judgment, as by the report of honourable personages, and mine own late experience of your noble favours, some of them I now perceive have found with your honour, these present papers had come to crave your patronage in a better dress than now they do. Besides the consciousness of my in abilities to please the accurate judgments of this age, want of opportunities for these many years to give myself that contentment which I was once bold to promise unto myself, had almost deterred me from publishing any part of my former labours, which were not popular, and for the pulpit, of which rank this present treatise is not. The subject or matter of it is academical, and was conceived in that famous nursery of all good literature which for these many years had flourished, and many more may it flourish. 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.