Excerpt from Six Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures, Their Nature, Interpretation, and Some of Their Most Important Doctrines: Preached Before the University of Cambridge in the Years 1827-8: To Which Are Annexed Two Dissertations: The First on the Reasonableness of the Orthodox Views of Christianity, as Opposed to the Rationalism of Germany; The Second on the Interpretation of Prophecy Generally, With an Original Exposition of the Book of Rev Force to persons intended for the Church. During the time allotted to an University residence, it is quite impossible that every one can do any thing considerable in all its pursuits; and, where the tide Of popular feeling runs high in favour Of the Classics and Mathematics only, which is generally the case in this country, the consequence will be, that those who cannot distinguish themselves in these, will lose their energies, give up all effort with regard to every thing else, and actually abandon themselves to apathy and idleness. Iwill not pretend to say what the numbers among us are who are thus situ ated, but I am apprehensive that they are frightfully large. And, if this be the fact, surely something ought to be done, not to narrow the extent Of learn ing now acquired by the industrious and enterprising, but to call forth those latent and dormant energies, which are languishing without an Object, or exerting themselves only to produce misery or mischief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.