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PRErACE.
BosTON's Treatise on Human Nature has been long
and universally admired by the lovers of true religion ;
and it appears well entitled to this regard, on account
of the intrinsic merit of its views of the condition of
man, both in his natural and in his renewed state.
The simphcity of its style, and the perspicuity of
its arguments, render it well calculated to instruct
the ignorant ; while the luminous views which it
exhibits of the fundamental principles of our holy
religion — the simple and niiaJSected eloquence with
which it illustrates the most interesting doctrines —
and the close and pointed appHcation with which it
urges those docfeines on the conscience and the
heart of every individual, cannot fail to impress the
mind of the humble Christian with a deeper and a
more abiding sense of the wonders of redeeming love.
This valuable and interesting work was first
translated into Gaelic by Gilbert M'Donald, of Edin-
burgh ; and although the translation was executed
with some ability and success, it was still felt that
considerable alterations were necessary to render it
sufficienlly faithful to the original, and to make its
style correspond as nearly as possible to the different