Treatise on the physical cause of the death of Christ and its relation to the principles and practice of Christianity / by William Stroud.

Date:
1871
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    conjectured the purpose to which their remarks have been applied. He takes this opportunity of recording his acknowledgments to several friends who have supplied him with useful materials ; but whose names, being for the most part inserted in the treatise itself, need not now be repeated. Should the work ever reach a second edition, he shaU feel much obliged by any communications tending to its further im- provement, with which he may in the meantime be favoured. He has likewise had occasion to refer very copi- ously to the Scriptures, both of the Old and the New Testament. In doing this, he has, at the risk of incuri'ing some censure for tediousness and repe- tition, often quoted the passages at large; fearing that, unless he adopted this plan, the efi'ect which he was anxious to produce would in many cases have been much impaired, if not wholly defeated. Few readers can, in fact, be trusted to examine and col- late a mere hst of biblical references, and to make that careful and inteUigent use of them which is requisite for the purpose of demonstration. It will however be generally admitted that, in enouncing the tiTiths of Scripture, no course can be so proper as to cite the words of Scripture; which in respect to beauty, energy, and perspicuity, as well as to authority, far excel all human compositions whatso- ever. In quoting from the Old Testament, he has seldom departed from the text of the English Vulgate ; partly, because his acquaintance with the Hebrew language is too limited to qualify him for the task of translating from it; and partly, because it is allowed on all hands that, -in this portion of the Bible, the