The division of the work into the "Outer Court," the "Holy Place," and the "Most Holy Place," is intended merely to point out the different stages of the Redeemer's sufferings, from their commencement to their close, but by no means to attach a less or greater importance to them. Had the latter been the case, I would naturally have assigned the institution of the Lord's Supper its appropriate place in the "Most Holy Place," instead of the "Outer Court." But in the plan of this volume, it falls among the class of events, which immediately precede the propitiatory work of the Mediator.

POTSDAM.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

THE important work, of which the present is a Translation, appeared originally as a series of discourses. But, in order to render it the more generally acceptable and useful, the Translator, with the Author's kind permission, has molded it into its preseut form, and omitted whatever appeared to be of an extraneous nature. He has felt the more at liberty to pursue this course, since it has been attended with success in some of the estimable Author's earier works.

TULSE HILL, 29th September, 1855.