The New Life

Preface.
could have little counsel or help, and seldom mingle
in the preaching of the word.
It is my sure and confident
expectation that what the Lord has given me to
write shall prove a blessing to many of these young
confessors.
[I have, in some instances, attached the names of
the places where the diflferent portions of this manual
were written ; in others, the names of the towns where
the substance of them was spoken, as a remembrance
to the friends with whom I had intercourse.]
While writing this book, I have had a second wish
abiding with me. I have thought what I could possibly
do to secure that my little book should not draw
away attention from the word of God, but rather help
to make the word more precious. I resolved to furnish
the work with notes, so that, on every point that
was treated of, the reader might be stirred up still to
listen to the Word itself, to God Himself.
I am hopeful that this arrangement will yield a double
benefit.
Many a one does not know, and has nobody
to teach him, how to examine the Scriptures properly.
This book may help him in his loneliness.
If he will
only meditate on one and another point, and then look
up the texts that are quoted, he will get into the way
of consulting God's word itself on that which he wishes
to understand. But it may j ust as readily be of service
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