378 THE BRIDGEWATER TREATISES ON THE POWER, WISDOM, AND GOODNESS OF GOD, AS MANIFESTED IN THE CREATION. TREATISE I. THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN. BY THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D. POWER, WISDOM, AND GOODNESS OF GOD, AS MANIFESTED IN THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN. BY THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D. & LL.D., PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. VOL. I. FIFTH EDITION. GLASGOW: WILLIAM COLLINS, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET. EDINBURGH: OLIVER & BOYD; WILLIAM WHYTE & Co.; LONDON: WHITTAKER & Co.; HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.; TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES JAMES, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. MY LORD, YOUR Lordship's personal kindness to myself would alone have inclined me to solicit for this work the honour of your patronage and name. But I must further confess the peculiar satisfaction which I feel, in offering it as a tribute and a public acknowledgment of my admiration for an order of men, who, more than all others, have enriched by their labours the moral and theological literature of England. |