6. It only remains to explain that we have written not as mere individuals, but as ministers, under common conditions, of a common faith. This unity of conviction has enabled us freely to offer and accept mutual criticism and suggestion; so that without each of us professing such responsibility for work other than his own, as would have involved undue interference with individual method, we do desire this volume to be the expression of a common mind and a common hope. C. G. PUSEY HOUSE, _Michaelmas, 1889_. [1] Gratry, _Henri Perreyve_, Paris 1880, p. 162. [2] See pp. 208-211, 292-3, 318-20, 475-6. PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. The author of the Essay _The Holy Spirit and Inspiration_ has endeavoured to obviate further misunderstanding of his meaning on one important point by rewriting some sentences on pp. 359-60, in accordance with the _Corrigenda_ inserted in the Fourth Edition. PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION. I. There are two things which may fairly be regretted in regard to the criticisms--often the very kind and encouraging criticisms--which, this book has received. There is, first, the disproportionate attention which has been given to some twenty pages on the subject of the inspiration of Holy Scripture, an attention so disproportionate as to defeat the object which the writers had in view in assigning to that subject its place in the general treatment of the work of the Holy Spirit--the object, namely, of giving it its proper context in the whole body of Christian truth: and there is, secondly, the fact that we have not generally succeeded in gaining the attention of our critics to the point of view from which these 'studies' were written, and the purpose they were intended to serve.