Excerpt from The Grounds and Principles of the Christian Revelation: Illustrated in a Series of Discourses on Select Subjects This Method of fearehing the Scriptures, if duly obferved, and clofely purfued, would be of great ufe and fervice to all intelligent Chriflianr, in reading the Bihia to good Pur pofe, in forming and fixing their Principles properly, Upon the Grounds of a pofitive di vine Revelation. But if any Perfons, more than others, are concerned and obliged to obferve thele Rules of Interpretation, with a {crupulous Exae'tnefs who can they be, but Chrifiian Mini/lent, whofe Ofiice it is to teach and infiruet others in the Principles and the Duties of religionp For the prie/z's Lips jhoulal keep Knowledge; and they [houldjeeh the Law at his Mouth for he is the Mafia. Ger of the Lord of Ho/ls (j). 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.