The lectures which follow were delivered in
London, during the month of May, 1870, and corrected from notes taken in
shorthand, with additions.
It may be painful to some that so much
notice is taken of skeptical assaults on the Pentateuch. My object, however, is
not only to promote the direct edification of the Christians who are quite
unaffected by such puny efforts of unbelief, but to furnish helpful hints to
those who feel either need of a candid answer to captious objections, or a wish
to aid the feeble entangled by such snares of the enemy. These remarks, chiefly
in the form of footnotes, unless I err greatly, will not be unwelcome to many
souls; for to my mind the defense made by those friendly to revelation is in
general almost as feeble, and in many cases quite as painful, as the attacks of
its foes.
May He whose grace is rich to all that call
upon Him bless every reader, as He bears with my shortcomings, though earnestly
desiring to magnify Himself and His word!