Quesnel: Moral Reflections on the Gospels Vol 1

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
The following work is on all accounts deserving of
peculiar attention. The Author himself was a re-
markable person, the Book is of the highest value
in its particular line, and the Controversy connected
with it, is fruitful of the most important instruction.
The whole Work will consist of Six Volumes, of
which the first three, containing the <strong>Reflections</strong> on
the Gospels, are now submitted to the public : the
second division will hereafter appear, comprising the
equally valuable remarks on the Acts of the Apostles
and the Epistles.
On the present occasion we shall confine ourselves
to some notices of the life and sentiments of the
Author ; to a review of the chief excellencies and
defects of his <strong>Reflections</strong> ;
and to an account of the
edition of them now presented. The remainder of
the Essay will follow, if health and opportunity be
granted, at no very long interval, and will contain
some view of the great Controversy connected with the
<strong>Reflections</strong>, and such observations as may conduce
to the further progress of that Revival of True Re-