52227 EDITOR'S PREFACE. Ir may be desirable to state that my only share in the preparation of this edition of Pearson on the Creed,' consists in two matters. I. I have carefully revised the spelling and accentuation of the Latin and Greek quotations which form a large portion of the learned author's notes, and into which many inaccuracies had found their way in the course of time. II. I have prefixed to it a plain and simple outline of the contents of the Treatise, in the shape of an Analysis,' which I trust may be found useful to Candidates for Holy Orders, and to Divinity Students in general. Hampstead, N. W., Oct. 1867 E. W. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL AND WELL-BELOVED THE PARISHIONERS OF ST. CLEMENT'S, EASTCHEAP. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied. IF I should be at any time unmindful of your commands, you might well esteem me unworthy of your continued favours; and there is some reason to suspect I have incurred the interpretation of forgetfulness, having been so backward in the performance of my promises. Some years have passed since I preached unto you upon such texts of scripture as were on purpose selected in relation to the Creed, and was moved by you to make those meditations public. But you were pleased then to grant what my inclinations rather led me to, that they might be turned into an Exposition of the Creed itself; which, partly by the difficulty of the work undertaken, partly by the intervention of some other employments, hath taker. me up thus long, for which I desire your pardon. And yet an happy excuse may be pleaded for my delay, meeting with a very great felicity, that as faith triumpheth in good works, so my Exposition of the Creed should be contemporary with the re-edifying of your church. For though I can have little temptation to believe that my book should last so long as that fabric, yet I am exceedingly pleased that they should begin together; that the publishing of the one should so agree with the opening of the other. This, I hope, may persuade you to forget my slackness, considering ye were not ready to your own expectation; your experience tells you the excuse of |