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FOUR GOSPELS:

WITH A

COMMENTARY.

BY

ABIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE.

VOLUME I.

MATTHEW.

NEW EDITION.

BOSTON:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

LONDON:

JOHN GREEN, 121 NEWGATE STREET.

1843.

(624)

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by
ABIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

In bringing this work before the public, it will be proper to say something respecting its origin and object, and the principles on which it is based. The expositions and criticisms it contains were substantially given, in the first instance, in the lectureroom, and in meetings of Sabbath-school teachers; and only the repeated expression, on the part of friends, and by the public journals of our faith, of the pressing want of a popular commentary on the Scriptures, of a different complexion from those chiefly in use, has called them forth from the retirement in which they germinated.

If the Author wished to deprecate criticism, it would be sufficient to say that he has performed his task amidst professional cares and labors, which, though not altogether unpropitious to such an enterprise, in some respects, yet break in upon that continuity of interest and of thought, essential to the most successful intellectual or spiritual efforts. He would simply ask that the mantle of Christian charity may be thrown over those minor errors in fact, style, and opinion, which are incident to a divided attention of the mind. Of other and graver ones, if such there be, he would bear the responsibility as he best can, grounded on the consciousness of upright motives, and appealing to the common Master and final Judge, to whom we all stand or fall.

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