Excerpt from Lectures on the General Principles of Moral Government: As They Are Exhibited in the First Three Chapters of Genesis The reader therefore, if he wishes to apprehend the doc tlines proposed, to understand the reasonings by which they are enforced, and to deal candidly with the author as a man like himself, must bear both the Object and the principle in mind. The argument will otherwise be necessarily Obscure to him, and his criticis'rh will be more loquacious than ao curate but the fault will be his own. 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.