as I could, consistently with the subject and intention of the book.
For the first time the English reader will have anything that can honestly pretend to be a complete collection of the False Gospels, and other kindred documents, faithfully but not slavishly translated into the vernacular.
The remainder of the Christian Apocrypha will follow if circumstances permit.
I will only add that before I undertook this work I never realised, so completely as I do now, the impassable character of the gulf which separates the genuine Gospels from these. Trusting that others will obtain at least as much good from them, I send them forth into the world.
THE THIRD EDITION.
This edition is issued at a lower price than its precursors, and has been revised throughout by the original texts.
