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MANUALS FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS, 



UNIFORMLY PRINTED AND BOUND. 



It is now about seven years since the Prospectus of this Series 

 was first issued. Four volumes have been published, and 

 others are in an advanced state. The reception which these 

 volumes have met with, has fully justified the anticipation with 

 which the Publishers commenced the Series, and warrants them 

 in the belief, that their aim of supplying books " concise, com- 

 prehensive, and accurate," "convenient for the professional 

 Student and interesting to the general reader," has been not 

 unsuccessfully fulfilled. 



The following paragraphs appeared in the original Prospectus, and may 

 be here conveniently reproduced : 



" The Authors being Clergymen of the English Church, and the Series 

 being designed primarily for the use of Candidates for office in 

 her Ministry, the books will seek to be in accordance with her 

 spirit and principles ; and as the spirit and principles of the 

 English Church teach charity and truth, so in treating of the 

 opinions and principles of other communions, every effort will 

 be made to avoid acrimony or misrepresentation. 



" It will be the aim of the writers throughout the Series to avoid all 

 dogmatic expression of doubtful or individual opinions." 



I. 



A General View of the History of the Canon of the 

 New Testament during the FIRST FOUR CENTURIES. 

 By BROOKE Foss WESTCOTT, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge. Crown 8vo. cloth, 12s. &d. 



The Author is one of those who are teaching us that it is possible to rifle the 

 storehouses of German theology, without bearing away the taint of their atmo- 

 sphere : and to recognise the value of their accumulated treasures, and even 

 track the vagaries of their theoretic ingenuity, without abandoning in the pursuit 

 the clear sight and sound feeling of English common sense . . . . It is by far 

 the best and most complete book of the kind; and we should be glad to see it 

 well placed on the lists of our examining chaplains" GUARDIAN. 



" Learned, dispassionate, discriminating, worthy of his subject, and the present 

 state of Christian Literature in relation to it" BRITISH QUARTERLY. 



" To the student in Theology it will prove an admirable Text-Book, : and to all 

 others who have any curiosity on the subject it will be satisfactory as one of the 

 most useful and instructive pieces of history which the records of the Church 

 supply." LONDON QUARTERLY. 



