THE DEVELOPEMENT OF RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE MODERN CHRISTIAN CHURCH, ILLUSTRATED BY THE LIFE AND WORK OF CERTAIN GREAT MEN. BY HENRY SOLLY, AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT ATONEMENT," ETC. LONDON: C. E. MUDIE, UPPER KING STREET, BLOOMSBURY SQUARE. M.DCCC.XLIX. C 1352. 77.35 74-3652 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1886, Mar. 24 ked. J. Fr. Reigomson, of Cambridge. a LONDON: PRINTED BY RICHARD KINDER, 6 то THE YOUTH OF THIS KINGDOM, ON WHOSE EARNEST ENTHUSIASM, GENEROUS DEVOTEDNESS, AND ELEVATED PIETY, THE TRUE WELFARE OF THE CHURCH AND OF THE WORLD IN FUTURE YEARS MUST MAINLY Depend, These Lectures, DESIGNED TO AWAKEN AND CHERISH CHRISTIAN DEVOUTNESS AND TRUE HEROISM, ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. In the following Lectures no claim of course is made to depth of historic research. The principle of division of labour must influence literature as well as mechanical toils; and the valuable authors from whom the facts have been collected, and who themselves have gone deeply into historic research, appear to require, like the main vessels in the human body, numerous smaller conduits to convey their results throughout the ramifications of society. Neither are they offered to the public as specimens of polished and elegant composition; still less as affording, by any means, a complete and satisfactory view of their respective subjects. Composed, and for the most part delivered, in the ordinary course of pulpit duty, in the midst of the continual pressure of ministerial labours, they are marked by many imperfections and deficiencies of which the reader probably cannot be more conscious than the writer. But they have at least this merit, which forms the only apology for publishing them, that they have a great purpose in view, to aim at which might perhaps justify still meaner efforts. They are not written at random, |