The Works of John Owen, D. D. [pp. 165-190]

THE
PRINCETON REVIEW.
APRIL, 1852.
No. II.
ART. I.-The works of TJohn Owen, 1D. D. Edited by the
Rev. William II. Goold, Edinburgh. New York: Carter
and Brothers, 1850, 1851, 1852. 8vo.
THAT this is the best edition of Owen's works, we do not
doubt for a moment. It is identical as to every letter and
point with the Edinburgh edition of Messrs. Johnstone and
Hunter, everywhere known for the beautiful impressions which
they have produced, under the auspices of the Free Church.
The series of volumes is rapidly coming out, and five have
already appeared. For such a book, the price is surprisingly
low. What is of more importance, the edition is a critical one,
under the eye and hand of a clergyman of Edinburgh, Mr.
Goold, who unites for his task several admirable qualities;
extensive reading, accurate scholarship, a turn for minute
collation, indefatigable labour, and a thorough acquiescence in
the theology of the seventeenth century.
It was fit that the great Puritan champion should be introduced to our generation by a Calvinist and a Presbyterian,
rather than by any laxer descendant of the nonconformists,
who, if they should revisit their old haunts, would scarcely
recognize their ancient Independency among the Congregationalists of England.
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