Vlll PREFACE. 



My labour has been performed con amove; I have looked 

 forward to it for many years past; and it is with no small grati- 

 fication that I see it completed. I send forth the result as one 

 more tribute humbly offered to the glory of the Triune God, " who 

 is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." 



P. H. Gosse. 

 Torquay, December, 1859. 



