LANCASHIRE

INDEPENDENT COLLEGE,

1843-1893.

Jubilee Memorial Volume.

BY

JOSEPH THOMPSON,

MANCHESTER: J. E. CORNISH.

1893.

"Theology is that science which would truly enlarge men's minds, were it studied, or permitted to be studied, everywhere with that freedom, love of truth, and charity which it teaches, and were not made, contrary to its nature, the occasion of strife, faction, malignity, and narrow impositions.”—LockE: On the Conduct of the Understanding, § 23.

"Theology as well as astronomy may be Ptolemaic; it is so when the interpreter's Church, with its creeds and traditions, is made the fixed point from which he observes and conceives the truth and kingdom of God. But theology may also be Copernican; and it is so when the standpoint of the interpreter is, as it were, the consciousness of Jesus Christ, and this consciousness where it is clearest and most defined, in the belief as to God's Fatherhood and His own Sonship."A. M. FAIRBAIRN, D.D.: The Place of Christ in Modern Theology, P. viii.