THE GOSPELS: WITH MORAL REFLECTIONS ON EACH VERSE. BY PASQUIER QUESNEL. WITH An Introductory Essay, BY THE REV. DANIEL WILSON, D.D. VICAR OF ISLINGTON. NOW BISHOP OF CALCUTTA. REVISED BY THE REV. HENRY A. BOARDMAN, D.D. IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I. NEW YORK: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH, No. 770 BROADWAY. KE 5214 HARVARD 4 2 X 141 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO. PHILADELPHIA. PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. THERE is only one way of accounting for the remarkable fact, that no edition of this work should, up to this period, have been issued from the American press. QUESNEL, if known at all, is known simply as having been a minister of the Roman Catholic Church; and Protestants have stood aloof from his commentary without examining it. Had they looked into its history, and that of its author, they would have learned that it brought down upon his head the anathemas of the Vatican; and that it was against these very "Notes" the famous Bull "UNIGENITUS"* was directed. In that Bull, one hundred and one propositions, for the most part of an eminently scriptural and evangelical character, are deduced from this work, and condemned as heretical. This fact should be sufficient to commend it to the attention of enlightened Protestants. QUESNEL, it is true, could never throw off entirely the effects of his early training. To certain Romish errors he adhered to the last; and these disfigure, more or less, the original editions of his Notes. A large portion of the obnoxious passages were omitted in the English edition of the work; but a careful revision has brought to light a considerable number which had been overlooked. These have been expunged. To this point, indeed, the editor's task has been chiefly restricted the cancelling of Romish errors-which must have impeded the circulation of the volumes and limited their usefulness. As regards the merits of the work, eminent authorities have pro See Appendix to Volume II. |