Excerpt from Appendix to Five Lectures on Attrition, Contrition, and Sovereign Love
The Christmas vacation gives at last so small a degree Of leisure, that I must confine my remarks within the shortest practicable compass. I will introduce therefore as little as possible of new matter; and confine myself almost exclusively to the necessary task, Of explaining more clearly principles which have been misunderstood, and defending more energetically arguments which have been assailed.
William George Ward (1812–1882) was an English theologian and mathematician. A Roman Catholic convert, his career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought.