Excerpt from The Spirit of the Bible, or the Nature and Value of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures Discriminated, in an Analysis of Their Several Books, Vol. 2: Containing the Apocrypha and the New Testament I DID not mean to have 9. Preface to this second volume nor, indeed, shall I now write one. But I find one written for me in the observations of a recent Quarterly Reviewer, so admirably maintaining the free and natural principles of thought upon which these volumes proceed in the investiga tion of Scripture, that I cannot refrain from thus adopting them into my pages. 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.