ON UNIVERSALIS M. BY REV. JOEL PARKER, D. D., PRESIDENT OF THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK. JOHN S. TAYLOR & CO., BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, 145 NASSAU STREET, OPPOSITE THE TRACT HOUSE. 1841. BX9943 Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for 57188 S. W. BENEDICT, PRINTER, 128 FULTON-ST. PREFACE. THE most successful method of overcoming error, is by the exhibition of truth. The student, that would be thoroughly furnished, and prepared to contend with all the Protean forms of false doctrine, must, it is true follow it per ambages, and understand all its hateful shapes. But, to attain the most important ends of popular instruction, the symmetrical form and luminous aspect of truth must be mainly exhibited. Error may be presented. But she should be seen only as a sly and ugly hag, peeping out from her lurking places, while Truth, the "daughter of the skies," should step boldly forth, and walk up and down before the eyes of the reader, displaying her golden robes, her lovely countenance, and all her winning attractions. The following pages were, in great part, written about thirteen years since. They were first delivered |