X LECTURES FOR THE TIMES: OR, Illustrations and Refutations OF THE ERRORS OF ROMANISM AND TRACTARIANISM. BY THE REV. JOHN CUMMING, D.D.. MINISTER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL CHURCH, CROWN COURT. "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common LONDON: ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO. 25, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1851. Adv. Bil. ΤΟ GEORGE FINCH, ESQ. OF BURLY-ON-THE-HILL, RUTLANDSHIRE, BY WHOM MANY OF THE MATERIALS OF THESE LECTURES, AND OF THE HAMMERSMITH DISCUSSION, HAVE BEEN EITHER FURNISHED OR SUGGESTED, AND TO WHOM, AS AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND FRIEND, THE AUTHOR IS SO DEEPLY INDEBTED, These Lectures are Juscribed, WITH SENTIMENTS OF PROFOUND ESTEEM, GRATITUDE, AND RESPECT, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The THREE large editions of this Work have been sold. This edition contains one-fourth of additional matter. first two Lectures were delivered at the Hanover Rooms in the autumn of 1850. The other Lectures have been re-cast, their positions strengthened, the quotations verified, and the references given. The Lecturer has re-written some parts, rendered plainer and more perspicuous other parts, and, where it appeared desirable, he has added new explanatory and illustrative notes. The absorbing controversy of the age will lie between the principles of the Reformation on the one side, and the principles of Romanism, whether openly avowed and embodied in the Canons of the Council of Trent, and in the Canon Law, or more dimly shadowed forth and expressed by the Tractarian party. The unhappy disputes which have divided Protestants, both in England and in Scotland, about mere abstractions or questions of ecclesiastical finance, or forms and ceremonies, or patronage, or popular elections of ministers, are, it is feared, the too successful attempts of the great enemy to weaken the side of truth, in order to strengthen the forces and facilitate |