PREFACE.

PERHAPS it is too much to expect that no critical eye will scan the following pages, and therefore the writer may be excused for offering a few words in explanation of his purpose and his plan. As to the latter, its alphabetical character may be open to objection; yet the writer deems it the best he could have adopted for his purpose. Although a theological or topical arrangement might seem, at first sight, to have much to recommend it, practically it would be found to bring with it more disadvantages. While a hap-hazard or casual arrangement, (if such a thing can be,) would be worse still.

Then as to the List of Subjects, the author does not regard his summary as a perfect enumeration, however carefully he has endeavoured to render it so. But it scarcely admits of a doubt, that if one were to select any dozen bible students, and ask them to prepare from the sacred pages a catalogue of Titles and Symbols of our Lord, no two of them would arrive at precisely the same results. On this point, therefore, perhaps