THE FITNESS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE FOR UNFOLDING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF MEN. II. CHRIST THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, OR, THE UNCONSCIOUS PROPHECIES OF HEATHENDOM. BEING THE HULSEAN LECTURES FOR MDCCCXLV. AND MDCCCXLVI. BY RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, M. A., VICAR OF ITCHEN-STOKE, HANTS; PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, KING'S COL- From the Second London Edition, Rebised by the Author. PHILADELPHIA : H. HOOKER.-S. W. COR. EIGHTH AND CHESTNUT STS. ADVERTISEMENT. I HAVE not felt myself at liberty to make more than a few verbal alterations, or here and there to recast a sentence, or add a clause, in these Lectures, on the occasion of their second appearance. I have inserted indeed a few brief passages, which, originally belonging to the Discourses, had been omitted in the delivery, and have to the Second Series appended a considerable number of Notes, in confirmation or illustration of statements made in the text. These having been asked for in more quarters than one, I trust may not be found unacceptable to some readers. ITCHEN-STOKE, Nov. 19, 1847. CONTENTS, FOR THE YEAR 1845. LECTURE I. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself; that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might |