IN DIVINIT Y. BY THE LATE GEORGE HILL, D.D. PRINCIPAL OF ST. MARY'S COLLEGE, ST. ANDREWS. EDITED FROM HIS MANUSCRIPT, BY HIS SON, THE REV. ALEXANDER HILL, MINISTER OF DAILLY. NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 1854. 2700€ 26 230 PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. THE author of the following Lectures was appointed Professor of Divinity in 1788, and completed the plan which he had formed for himself, in about four years. In every succeeding year, he revised with unwearied care that part of his course which he intended to read to his students; and not a few of the Lectures appear to have been recently transcribed. He took no steps himself for publishing them as a whole; but he is known to have had this in contemplation; and at his death he consigned them to the Editor, in such terms as implied that the publication of them would not be in opposition to his wishes. It will be agreeable, the Editor believes, to the wishes of that large proportion of the ministers of the church of Scotland, who went from the hall of St. Mary's College with unfeigned respect for the character and talents of the Author, to peruse those prelections which commanded the attention of their earlier years. And he is well persuaded, that there are many, who, from personal attachment to the Author, or from a knowledge of his high reputation, are anxious to become acquainted with his sentiments, on points so important as those which his Lectures embrace. These considerations alone, however, would not have induced the Editor to disclose his father's manuscripts to the public eye. In the conclusion of his opening address, as Professor of Di |