Pages 1-224, _passim_, for reasons given in Vol. II. 96 note, _for_ Memphitic _read_ Bohairic; _for_ Thebaic _read_ Sahidic.
P. 7, l. 25, _for_ Chapter XI _read_ Chapter XII.
P. 14, l. 20, _for_ Chapter X _read_ Chapter XI.
P. 87, l. 19, _for_ Synaxaria _read_ Menologies.
P. 119, ll. 11 and 12 from bottom, _for_ 93 _read_ 94; _for_ Memoranda in our Addenda _read_ ingenious argument in n. 1.
P. 149, Tf Horner, _add_ now in the Bodleian at Oxford.
P. 214, l. 3 from bottom, _for_ 464 _read_ iv. 64.
P. 224, Evan. 250, l. 3, _for_ p. 144 _read_ p. 150.
P. 226, Evan. 274, l. 2 from end, _for_ Chapter IX _read_ Chapter XII.
P. 255, l. 6 from bottom, _for_ Bibl. Gr. L. _read_ Bibl. Gr. d.
P. 343, l. 12, _for_ Ev. 1 (2) _read_ Ev. 1 (1).
1. When God was pleased to make known to man His purpose of redeeming us through the death of His Son, He employed for this end the general laws, and worked according to the ordinary course of His Providential government, so far as they were available for the furtherance of His merciful design. A revelation from heaven, in its very notion, implies supernatural interposition; yet neither in the first promulgation nor in the subsequent propagation of Christ’s religion, can we mark any _waste_ of miracles. So far as they were needed for the assurance of honest seekers after truth, they were freely resorted to: whensoever the principles which move mankind in the affairs of common life were adequate to the exigences of the case, more unusual and (as we might have thought) more powerful means of producing conviction were withheld, as at once superfluous and ineffectual. Those who heard not Moses and the prophets would scarcely be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
2. As it was with respect to the _evidences_ of our faith, so also with regard to the volume of Scripture. God willed that His Church should enjoy the benefit of His written word, at once as a rule of doctrine and as a guide unto holy living. For this cause He so enlightened the minds of the Apostles and Evangelists by His Spirit, that they recorded what He had imprinted on their hearts or brought to their remembrance, without the risk of error in anything essential to the verity of the Gospel. But this main point once secured, the rest was left, in a great measure, to themselves. The style, the tone, the language, perhaps the special occasion of writing, seem to have depended much on the taste and judgement of the several penmen. Thus in St. Paul’s Epistles we note the profound thinker, the great scholar, the consummate orator: St. John pours forth the simple utterings of his gentle, untutored, affectionate soul: in St. Peter’s speeches and letters may be traced the impetuous earnestness of his noble yet not faultless character. Their individual tempers and faculties and intellectual habits are clearly discernible, even while they are speaking to us in the power and by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.