The Evidences of Christianity #267802

The author would have composed and delivered the whole of the designed course at once, if his health and other duties had allowed. But finding himself quite exhausted with the effort so far as it has now been carried, and being unwilling to be taken off for a longer time together, from his other pastoral duties, he stopped when he had completed the arguments for the authenticity, credibility, divine authority, and inspiration of the scriptures; reserving the consideration of the internal evidences for another occasion. The uncertainty of that period, and in deed of every thing future, has led him to think that he should be better consulting his duty to his flock by submitting to them the present volume, than by waiting till the second was ready for delivery.