CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D... MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1824. р UBLIC t ADVERTISEMENT. BEFORE the Reader proceeds to the proper business of the present Volume, his attention is requested, for a moment, to another subject. In the year 1802, the Author published "Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq., respecting his Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament." The Argument of those Letters being in his judgment an important one, and the Doctrine with which the Argument is connected being confessedly one of the most solemn concern, it has been the Author's practice, upon occasions of his appearing subsequently before the Public, to revert to that subject, (as he did in the Preface to his Ecclesiastical Biography in 1809, and afterwards in 1818), for the purpose of reporting progress, and of holding himself to the pledge there given, of "retracting publicly the substance of those Six Letters, so soon as he shall have been convinced, either by his own re |