OUR CHRISTIAN CLASSICS: READINGS FROM THE BEST DIVINES, WITH NOTICES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL BY JAMES HAMILTON, D.D. VOL. III. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO., 21 BERNERS STREET. M.DCCC.LVIII. LIBRARY OF THE Union Theological Seminary NEW YORK CITY PRESENTED BY Dr. Hugh Black JUL 2 4 1939 EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, FAUL'S WORK. L513 H21 1857 (3) 102734 PREFACE. THE next volume will be devoted to the Eighteenth Century. Although in some respects an unattractive period, it yielded many a noble spirit and many a great divine. Amongst its Theologians and Biblical Scholars it numbers Bull and Waterland, Hurd and Warburton, Jortin, Lowth, and Horsley; amongst its Apologists and Illustrators of the Christian Evidence, Bentley, Leslie, Butler, Leland, Lardner, Bishop Newton, West, Lyttelton, Watson, Paley; amongst its Preachers, Atterbury and Sherlock, Whitfield, Berridge, and Romaine, Fletcher and the Wesleys. Its Practical and Experimental Writers include the names of Law and Berridge, of Bishop Horne, of James Hervey, and John Newton; and amongst its Sacred Poets, besides Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts, stand out conspicuous, Kenn, Addison, and Young, Augustus Toplady, and William Cowper. These illustrious authors and their cotemporaries will conclude the present series, unless, on some future day, the pleasant memories of his native land should induce the compiler to give a volume to the worthies of North Britain. The names of Knox and Buchanan, of Rollock and James Melville, of Leighton, Scougall, and Hugh Binning, of Boston and the Erskines, of Logan, Beattie, Pollock, of Thomson, Chalmers, and M'Cheyne, are enough to shew that the Christian |