Preface to the Fourth Edition

In sending forth a new jmpression of the present work — with an additional chapter on a subject of deep interest — it is with feelings of devout and fervent gratitude the Author acknowledges the Divine blessing which has followed its circulation. The Holy Spirit has owned it, and to Ilim shall be given the glory. To those Christian friends, whose faces he has not seen in the flesh, but who have cheered his heart and strengthened bis hands by the testimonies which they have borne to the instruction and comfort it has conveyed to their minds, the only return he can make for this kind expression of their “love in the Spirit” is to “pray for them, and to desire that they might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that they might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.”

March, 1846.