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The lectures of which this volume is composed were read by John Dick to his students at the Theological Seminary of the United Associate Church, where he was Professor of Systematic Divinity. Professor Dick was known for his assiduous preparation for each lecture, writing numerous drafts before he was content with their shape and meaning. After his death, his son found that these lectures needed...

of enjoying his favour, the hopes which we are authorized to entertain, and the wonderful expedient by which our fallen race is restored to purity and happiness; these are the objects of theology, and entitle it to be pronounced the first of all the sciences in dignity and importance. Ignorant of the other sciences, and of the arts which minister to the ornament and amusement of life, a man who can sustain himself by mechanical labour, may spend the short time of his earthly pilgrimage, not without
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