A GUIDE. ΤΟ THE PRACTICAL READING OF THE BIBLE. BY WILLIAM CARPENTER. Biblical learning not only serves directly to dispel errors of opinion, by throwing open the true sense of Scripture; but it contains within itself what might be termed a physical preventive against heresy, which, if it be not always efficacious, is perceptibly operative. Natural History of Enthusiasm. LONDON: HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. 1830. PREFACE. THE design with which the following pages were written, was to convey to the readers of the English Bible that kind of elementary knowledge of its history and character, which should have a tendency to create a well-founded reliance on its fidelity, as a translation, and to induce a rational and profitable study of its contents. The substance of some of the early chapters has already appeared, in a periodical work, in the shape of essays; but they have |