PREFACE. HAVING published Twelve Tracts, which will form a volume, the Editors now pause, awaiting the judgment of the Public on the entire collection. They do not complain of want of support in the publication, although they cannot boast of as much success as, in their humble opinion, the value of the Tracts, especially at this period, warranted them in expecting. They have never looked to gain or even to remuneration for some labour and trouble, but they do not think that the Public can require them to suffer loss. They confidently reckon that the sale of the volume now completed will enable them, at no distant time, to resume the monthly publication, for which, from their own resources and the kind contributions of their correspondents, they have ample materials. The resumption of the work will be duly announced. In the mean time, they will be happy to receive materials for a second volume, together with any suggestions relating to the conduct of the work. The battle of Religious and Christian Liberty (for the Liberty is two-fold) has yet to be fought, and the Editors feel some satisfaction, in prospect of the contest, from the reflection that they have endeavoured to strengthen and encourage the Friends of Freedom in the discharge of their high duty. CONTENTS. No. I. A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes shewing The Craftsmen: a Sermon, or Paraphrase, upon several Verses Sketches of the Characters of Charles I. and II. and Oliver Cromwell: contained in the "Introductory Chapter" to the "History of the Early Part of the Reign of James II." By Alarms in Regard to Popery: an Address to the People of Scotland. By GEORGE CAMPBELL, D. D., Principal of the Marischal College, and one of the Ministers, of Aberdeen. Bishop Hoadly's celebrated Sermon before George the First. The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church, of Christ: a Ser- mon, preached before the King, at the Royal Chapel at St. The Difficulties and Discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures in the Way of Private Judgment, in order to shew that, since such a Study of the Scriptures is Men's indispensable Duty, it concerns all Christian Societies to remove (as much as possible) those Discouragements: in a Letter to a Young Clergyman. By FRANCIS HARE, D. D., An Examination of the Scheme of Church-Power laid down A Tract concerning Schism and Schismatics, wherein is briefly discovered the Original Causes of all Schism. By the Ever- The Judgment of the late Lord Chief Justice Sir MATTHEW HALE, of the Nature of True Religion, the Causes of its On the Proper Conduct of Religious Education and of Reli- |