THE STANDARD OF CATHOLICITY: OR, AN ATTEMPT TO POINT OUT IN A PLAIN MANNER CERTAIN SAFE AND LEADING PRINCIPLES, AMIDST THE CONFLICTING OPINIONS BY WHICH THE CHURCH IS AT PRESENT AGITATED. BY THE REV. G. E. BIBER, LL.D. "THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND IN THE WISDOM OF MEN, 1 Cor. ii. 5. LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND. MDCCCXL. PREFACE. AN apology seems due for the appearance of a treatise like the present, from the pen of one who is yet young in the ministry. At the same time the author is well aware, that if the manner in which he has handled the subject, fail to afford him the justification of which he stands in need, no prefatory remarks can avail him for that purpose. Nevertheless, as he would wish his readers to peruse the following pages free from any unfavourable impression, on the ground of what might appear to them, at first sight, the author's presumption in placing before the public his views on a subject so comprehensive and so difficult, he takes leave here briefly to state the considerations from which he has been led to think, that an exposition of those views might not, at this time, be altogether without its value. |