But what remedy?
That Himself should pay the penalty, and effect a full redemption.

How?
By becoming a creature, and so lifting up the race to Himself through so generous a condescension.

I show that it was antecedently probable that the Divinity should come in humble form, not to paralyse our reason by outward glories,--that He might even die as a seeming malefactor; this was the guess of Socrates: and that for the trial of our faith there are likely to be permitted all manner of difficulties and mysteries for us to gain personal strength by combating and living them down.

Many other topics are touched in this suggestive little treatise, whereanent a few critiques are available; as thus, "The author has done good service to religion by this publication: it will shake the doubts of the sceptical, strengthen the trust of the wavering, and delight the faith of the confirmed.

As its character becomes known, it will deservedly fill a high place in the estimation of the Christian world."-- _Britannia._ And similarly of other English journals, while the Americans were equally favourable.