CREDIBILIA: OR, DISCOURSES ON QUESTIONS OF BY THE REV. JAMES CRANBROOK, EDINBURGH. RE-ISSUE. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 1868. 100. s. 374 PREFACE TO THE RE-ISSUE. CIRCUMSTANCES having required a re-issue of this book, an opportunity is afforded me of saying a few words concerning my relation to its contents. The sixteen months which have elapsed since its publication have been to me very eventful ones. During their course I have resigned my connection with the congregation of which I was minister. I have isolated myself from all the Christian Churches around me, and I have formed a congregation in which I am purely and absolutely free to say and do as I like. Those who compose it are drawn together to worship with me through our common sympathies in aspiration, or through their desire to hear what I think and have to say upon the various subjects about which I discourse. We are called by no name; we have no organization; I am under no responsibility of any sort to one of them; and they are under no responsibility to me. This novel state of perfect freedom could not but have a great influence upon any man's thoughts and feelings; it has had an immense influence upon mine. Principles have been wrought out to their full conclusions, opinions |