THE SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY TO THE MESSIAH: AN INQUIRY WITH A VIEW TO A SATISFACTORY DETERMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE TAUGHT IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CONCERNING THE PERSON OF CHRIST. BY JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. "A Deo discendum est quid de Deo intelligendum sit: quia nonnisi se THIRD EDITION, IMPROVED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD ; HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY; J. H. PARKER, OXFORD; AND PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. IN again bringing before the public the work on which I rest my chief hope of usefulness, my first duty is an humble and grateful acknowledgment to the Almighty and most Merciful One, for the degree of acceptance with which it has been favoured. That the faith of some Christians has been strengthened, and that others have been preserved from falling into the system of error whose plausibility had nearly imposed upon them, cannot but be to me a subject of the most encouraging reflection. It would be affectation to say, that I deem this book a small and feeble contribution to the cause of religious knowledge. Had I thought it such, I should have been highly culpable for troubling the public |