TWO ESSAYS: I. ON THE ASSURANCE OF FAITH: II. ON THE EXTENT OF THE ATONEMENT, AND UNIVERSAL PARDON. BY RALPH WARDLAW, D. D. SECOND EDITION. "A desire to have Scripture on our side, is one thing; and a sincere desire to be on the side of Scripture, is another." WHATELY. GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOR ARCHIBALD FULLARTON & CO. ; JOHN WARDLAW, EDINBURGH; W. CURRY JUN. & CO.; DUBLIN ; HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.; AND SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON. M.DCCC.XXXI. PREFACE. THE first of the two following Essays owes its publication, partly, to the request of christian friends in a neighbouring town, referred to in my preface to a Volume of Sermons published in June last year. A similar application has more recently been received from the same quarter, with respect to a Discourse preached there on the subject of the second.-It would not be consistent with truth, were I, in either case, to say, that I had no previous thoughts of the press: but these solicitations, signed by names so numerous and respectable, couched in terms such as it would be equal affectation and incivility not to own as gratifying, and urging considerations which a regard to the interests of truth did not leave me at liberty to resist, settled the half-formed and fluctuating purpose into resolution. Whether the solicitations on their part, and the resolution on mine, were warranted by any thing in the communication to be made sufficiently worthy |