"As our understanding can contemplate itself, and our affections be exercised upon themselves by reflection, so may each be employed in the same manner upon any other mind: and since the Supreme Mind, the Author and Cause of all things, is the highest possible object to Himself, He may be an adequate supply to all the faculties of our souls, a subject to our understandings, and an object to our affections."-Butler, 14th Sermon, On the Love of God. PREFACE. IN the Preface to the third edition of Mr. Mansel's Lectures, p. 14, he says:-"It has been objected by "reviewers of very opposite schools, that to deny to "man a knowledge of the Infinite is to make Reve"lation itself impossible, and to leave no room for "evidences on which Reason can be legitimately em"ployed. The objection would be pertinent if I had ever maintained that Revelation is or can be a di"rect manifestation of the Infinite Nature of God. "But I have constantly asserted the very reverse." It is not the object of the Sermons contained in this volume to convict Mr. Mansel of any inconsistency on the subject of Revelation. I have understood him to maintain, just as he states, the "very reverse" of the doctrine that Revelation means a direct manifestation of the Nature of God. My wish is to ascertain whether that doctrine which I have |