PREFACE

TO

THE SECOND EDITION.

SOME years have now passed away, since I was informed by my late respectable publisher', that this treatise, published in 1822, was out of print, and was recommended by him to publish a second edition. It is needless to assign the reasons which have hitherto prevented me from acceding to this suggestion. It will be sufficient to say that the delay has not been occasioned by any change of opinion, or any intention of altering or modifying the doctrinal statements which I then submitted to the public.

In some of the numerous tracts which have issued of late years from the press, suggesting alterations in the Book of Common Prayer, the revision of the Baptismal services, with a view to the exclusion of the opinions maintained in this work, has been

1 Mr. C. Rivington.