TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE,

DESIGNED TO VINDICATE

RELIGIOUS AND CHRISTIAN

LIBERTY.

[TO BE PUBLISHED ON THE LAST DAY OF EVERY MONTH, WITH THE MAGAZINES.]

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.-Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON.

No. VI.

THE

DIFFICULTIES AND DISCOURAGEMENTS

WHICH ATTEND THE

STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES

IN THE WAY OF

PRIVATE JUDGMENT,

IN ORDER TO SHEW THAT,

Since such a Study of the Scriptures is Men's indispensable Duty, it concerns all Christian Societies to remove (as much as possible) those Discouragements:

IN A LETTER TO A YOUNG CLERGYMAN.

BY FRANCIS HARE, D. D.,

SUCCESSIVELY DEAN OF WORCESTER AND OF ST. PAUL'S, AND LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH AND OF CHICHESTER.

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, 18, BISHOPSGATE STREET; SMALLFIELD & SON, 69, NEWGATE STREET.

4

PRICE PENCE.

C. GREEN, PRINTER, HACKNEY.