Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Hyphenation has been standardized.

Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:

Page iv: “Premit, therefore, this” “Permit, therefore, this”
Page ix: “felicitious, although” “felicitous, although”
Page 48: “God’s debator and ye” “God’s debater and ye”
Page 48: “Listern, ye doubting” “Listen, ye doubting”
Page 69: “a cottag     Manitou” “a cottage at Manitou”
Page 87: “patriarchial trees of the” “patriarchal trees of the”