by Rev. James Petigru Boyce, D. D., LL. D.,

Joseph-Emerson-Brown Professor of Systematic Theology
in The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

First published in 1887

To the
HON. JOSEPH E. BROWN,

President of the
Board of Trustees of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,

this book is respectfully dedicated, as a token of high personal esteem, and in recognition of his deep interest in the cause of education, and especially of the theological education of the Christian ministry; as evinced, among other generous gifts, by his endowment in The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of the Chair of Systematic Theology, with which the author is officially

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