"FOR I DELIVERED UNTO YOU FIRST OF ALL THAT WHICH I ALSO RECEIVED, HOW THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES."

St. Paul.

LONDON:

EDWARDS AND HUGHES, AVE MARIA LANE;

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

PREFACE.

THE author is not aware of the existence of any treatise on the ATONEMENT, which, at a moderate cost, is adapted to the wants of that class of readers who feel interested in the study of such subjects. The present attempt, therefore, to supply such a work, will not, it is hoped, be deemed unnecessary or intrusive.

In the plan and arrangement of his work, it has been the author's greatest solicitude to make the subject at once intelligible and instructive; and he trusts that he has succeeded in clearing the doctrine of atonement from much of the darkness and mystification which have gathered around it, and in placing that most interesting of all subjects in such a light as will render its study both easy and delightful.

The work was undertaken from a conviction that no branch of the christian church has yet exhibited a clear and consistent view of the truth as it is in Jesus-that important portions of it are to be found scattered amongst them all, and mixed up with different degrees of error,