Excerpt from An Apology for the Study of Divinity: Being the Terminal Divinity Lecture Delivered in Bishop Cosin's Library Before the Bishop, the Dean and Chapter, and the University of Durham

It may be right to mention, that the Lectures for the Students in Divinity at Durham are given in private, and day by day. The present Lecture was delivered in consequence of the decision by the Dean and Chapter, that each Professor should give a Lecture of a more public kind in the course of every term. The Lecture comprised, as will readily be supposed, some observations on the study of Morals and Metaphysics, as indispensable for the Divine. But from fear of occupying too much time in the delivery, these passages were omitted. And as the Lecture is published by desire, it is thought better to print nothing which was not actually delivered. This will, it is hoped, explain what might otherwise appear a deficiency in the Lecture.

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