fallible) he could not affirm was the Lord’s mind, without doubt in his own. Here, he has not exactly restricted himself to this, because he does not present himself as a teacher, but merely as seeking to help on others who are enquiring with him: at the same time he has stated nothing he believes unweighed; nor, where a difficulty presented itself connected with any statement, has he allowed the statement to stand without the difficulty being solved. Many very simple statements have, in this way been connected with much enquiry throughout Scripture; though neither the difficulty nor the solution appear, perhaps, in what follows: but he has found abundant instruction and enlargement of judgment in Scripture in the research occasioned by it. He believes that the book in the body of it, views the Church as either mystically, according to Eph. ii., or really according to 1 Thess. iv. 17, in heavenly places, and that the want of observing this has much obscured the study of it. He conceives that the scriptural estimate of Eph. ii. has justified an application of it to past events; though on ground of which those who so applied the prophecy were, in the wisdom of God, scarcely conscious, an application which had its force in a period now nearly, though not quite, passed away;
