The old theology re-stated in sermons

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Preface

This book is not a Body of Divinity, as its title would seem to indicate. It is simply a collection of sermons, all of which, except two or three, were delivered on ordinary occasions, at various intervals, during a ministry of thirtysix years. The author has called it The Old Theology, because, while it contains most of his theological views, he trusts that no doctrine will be found on its pages which is not at least eighteen hundred years behind the times. In these latter days many new things in theology have been said, with which the author is not in sympathy, and he has been led to publish these sermons in the hope that some good may be accomplished by a re-statement of the sounder doctrines of centuries ago. The unrest of the age has produced many recent inventions, and these in turn have produced more unrest. In the old paths wherein our fathers walked, and in which Christ and the apostles led the way, we find rest — rest for our souls. H. H. T.