HONORARY CANON OF MY DEAR WOODGATE, WORCESTER. Half a century and more has passed since you first allowed me to know you familiarly, and to possess your friendship. Now, in the last decade of our lives, it is pleasant to me to look back upon those old Oxford days, in which we were together, and, in memory of them, to dedicate to you a Volume, written, for the most part, before the currents of opinion and the course of events carried friends away in various directions, and brought about great changes and bitter separations. Those issues of religious inquiry I cannot certainly affect to lament, as far as they concern myself as they relate to others, at least it is left to me, by such acts as you now allow me, to testify to them that affection which time and absence cannot quench, and which is the more fresh and buoyant I am, my dear Woodgate, because it is so old. Your attached and constant friend, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. January 5, 1872. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Volume is a fresh contribution, on the part of the Author, towards a uniform Edition of his publica tions. Of the six portions, of which it consists, the first appeared in the British Magazine in the spring of 1836, quot under the title of Home Thoughts Abroad.quot As that title was intended for a series of papers which were never written, and is unsuitable to a single instalment of them, another heading has been selected for it, answering more exactly to the particular subject of which it treats. The second and third are the 83rd and 85th numbers of the quotTracts for the Times, quot and were published in the 5th volume, in the year 1838. The fourth, quotThe Tamworth Reading Room, quot was written for the Times newspaper, and appeared inits columns in February 1841, being afterwards published as a pamphlet. The letters, of which it consists, were written off as they were successively called for by the parties who paid the author the compliment of employing him, and are necessarily immethodical as compositions. vi Advertisement. The same may Letters which follow, entitled, with still more reason be said of the quotWho s to blame written in the spring of 1855, for an intimate friend, at that time the editor of the newspaper in which they appeared. The Review, which closes the Volume, was published in the Month Magazine of June 1866, January, 1872 quot CONTENTS. PAGE I. HOW TO ACCOMPLISH IT i II. THE PATRISTICAL IDEA OF ANTICHRIST 1. HIS TIMES 44 2. HIS RELIGION 62 3. HIS CITY ……… 77 4. HIS PERSECUTION 93 III. HOLY SCRIPTURE IN ITS RELATION TO THE CATHOLIC CREED 1. DIFFICULTIES IN THE SCRIPTURE PROOF OF THE CATHOLIC CREED … …. IOQ 2. DIFFICULTIES OF LATITUDINARIANISM … 126 3. STRUCTURE OF THE BIBLE ANTECEDENTLY CON SIDERED 142 4. STRUCTURE OF THE BIBLE IN MATTER OF FACT . 152 5. THE IMPRESSION MADE BY THE SCRIPTURE STATE MENTS 170 6. EXTERNAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE CANON AND THE 7. CREED COMPARED IQ INTERNAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE CANON AND THE CREED COMPARED 8. DIFFICULTIES OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN FAITH 2l6 COMPARED …….. 236
