А

COMPENDIUM

OF

RUDIMENTS IN THEOLOGY:

CONTAINING A

DIGEST OF BISHOP BUTLER'S ANALOGY;

AN

EPITOME OF DEAN GRAVES ON THE PENTATEUCH;

AND

AN ANALYSIS OF BISHOP NEWTON ON THE PROPHECIES.

BY THE

REV. J. B. SMITH, B.D.

OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

RECTOR OP SOT BY; INCUMBENT OF BAMBURGH; AND HEAD MASTER

OF HORNCASTLE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS.

Σπούδασον σεαυτόν δόκιμον παραστήσαι τω θεώ εργάτην ανεπαίσχυντον, ορθοτομούντα
τον λόγον της αληθείας.-2 ΤΙΜ. ii. 15.

“ Read, -not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor
to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."-LORD Bacon.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,
AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1836.

240.

TO THE

REVEREND JOSEPH COLTMAN, M.A.,

INCUMBENT OF BEVERLEY MINSTER, RECTOR OF HAMERINGHAM

CUM SCRAFIELD, &c. &c.

DEAR SIR,

It affords me inexpressible satisfaction to place the present Volume under your patronage and protection.

To no one indeed could a work of this kind be more appropriately dedicated than to yourself; whose acknowledged talents and attainments have peculiarly fitted you to determine, in all matters requiring sound judgment and nice discrimination ; and whose uniform devotion to the cause of literature, encouragement of rising talent, and zeal for the interests of religion and morality, have won the respectful deference and warm esteem of all that have the happiness of your acquaintance.