DESIGNED TO ASSIST CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL IN ACQUIRING RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE. WITH LISTS OF BOOKS, ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF SOCIETY. BY THE REV. E. BICKERSTETH, MINISTER OF SIR GEORGE WHELER'S CHAPEL, SPITAL SQUARE. PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE; FLEET STREET, LONDON. DESIGNED TO ASSIST CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL IN ACQUIRING RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE. WITH LISTS OF BOOKS, ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF SOCIETY. BY THE REV. E. BICKERSTETH, MINISTER OF SIR GEORGE WHELER'S CHAPEL, SPITAL SQUARE. PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE; FLEET STREET, LONDON. CHAPTER XII. Reflections on the preceding Outlines of XIII. Brief Courses of the Study of Divinity XVI. The Minister's Library XVII. The Missionary's Library Knowledge : XV. Parochial Religious Libraries, and diffus- 435 531 548 370 394 417 560 XX. Jesus Christ the Chief and Best Teacher. 587 Bibliographical Index. Index of Books in the Minister's Library THE Author gladly avails himself of the opportunity afforded by a Preface, of stating the circumstances under which this work has been prepared. He had some years since written a chapter on the Study of Divinity, which was published in 1825, in his Treatise entitled The Christian Hearer;' but, having been led more to consider the importance of theological study; in subsequent editions of the Christian Hearer he omitted that chapter, stating, that it was his intention, if it should please God, to His incessant occupations in connexion with the Church Missionary Society have hindered him from fulfilling that intention, for a longer period than he anticipated: though he has kept it in view, he has been able to give to it but scattered fragments of time. It is right candidly to state, that this work is published with the disadvantage of his generally not having been able to give any uninterrupted time and attention to it, beyond a short period early in the |