TO THE

CHURCH AND CONGREGATION AT KETTERING

OF WHICH FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS HE WAS

AND TO THE

CHURCH AND CONGREGATION AT CAMBRIDGE

OF WHICH FOR THIRTEEN YEARS HE HAS BEEN

THE MINISTER

This Volume is

WITH GREAT RESPECT AND AFFECTION

INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

This volume is published in the hope that it will be of some service in checking the scepticism that abounds, much of which probably originates in, or is confirmed by, erroneous by, erroneous views of what the Bible teaches. It would have been larger and more elaborate had not enfeebled health shut up the writer to the alternative of issuing it in its present form, or deferring the publication indefinitely.

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The biblical argument of the second chapter has been published before, but it was deemed necessary now to reproduce it in a somewhat altered form.

The reader is requested to forgive an awkward erratum at page 18, line 5, and to remove it by drawing a pen through the words' of gravity.'

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"The First Chapter of the Bible and the last Chapter of astronomical science, viewed in conjunction"; a Discourse delivered at Cambridge, by William Robinson. Macmillan and Co., 1856.