Introductory Note to the American Edition

This work is republished from a recent
Edinburgh edition. Some words and phrases,
on account of their excessive quaintness or lack
of dignity, have been expunged; and a few
paragraphs containing irrelevant matter have
been omitted.

It will be observed that many passages of
Scripture are not quoted verhatim; but, as
the words added or substituted arc generally
intended to be paraphrastic or expository, it
has been thought best to leave them unaltered.

The author handles the word of God, not deceitfully, but skilfully, giving the sense of the sacred text with peculiar clearness and force. In a treatise less colloquial in style, his method of citation might he objectionable; but here it will be admired as an excellence. This facility in the use of Scripture is said to have given a special charm to his preaching.

To the Memoir furnished by Dr. Guthrie, is
appended a striking notice of Berridge as
a man and a preacher, from an article in
the North British Review, giving an eloquent
account of the men to whom the cause of evangelical religion in England was principally
indebted, in the middle of the last century.