SIX LECTURES ON THE Scriptural Doctrine of Reconciliation, OR ATONEMENT, AND CONNECTED SUBJECTS: Containing Strictures on "The Atonement, its relation to BY RUSSELL LANT CARPENTER, B.A. London: E. T. WHITFIELD, 178, STRAND. HALIFAX: T & W. BIRTWHISTLE, NORTHGATE. 1860. 100.3.78. PREFACE. } AT the commencement of the First Lecture, I allude to the reasons which led to this publication. Having ascertained that Mr. Hincks would answer Mr. Mellor's comments on his Lectures, I have rarely referred to them. Though I notice passages in Mr. Mellor's work, it is due to him as well as to myself to state, that I have not confined my attention to it; lest it should be thought that I attribute to him the opinions of various orthodox writers, which we both deem fallacious. Had circumstances permitted, I should have gladly treated each subject with more completeness; as well as have entered on others, to which I barely allude. My limits have forced me to exclude much that I had prepared it may happen, that what has been omitted was sometimes required for the justification, or explanation, of what has been said. Each Lecture was published separately, as soon after delivery as it could be printed: there are probably errors and oversights, which greater deliberation might have prevented. I have intimated (p. 73) that Mr. Mellor scarcely allows that any one can innocently differ from him; but, as he presents very objectionable alternatives, if the |