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SAMUEL PIKE, the author of the following Tract, was born about the year 1717 at Ramsey, in Wiltshire.
撒母耳·派克，以下小册子的作者，约于1717年出生在威尔特郡的拉姆齐。
In his early life, in the obscurity of a country village, he acquired the elements of literary and theological knowledge, and discovered that enlightened piety and that love of truth, which characterised him through life.
在他早年生活中，在乡村的默默无闻中，他获得了文学和神学知识的基础，并发现了那种开明的敬虔和对真理的热爱，这成为他一生的特征。
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At a suitable age he entered the academy in London for preparatory study for the ministry.
在适当的年龄，他进入伦敦的学院为事奉做预备学习。
The learned John Eames, F.R.S., was his scientific tutor; and Mr. John Hubbard directed his theological studies.
博学的约翰·伊姆斯，皇家学会会员，是他的科学导师；约翰·哈伯德先生指导他的神学研究。
After completing his academical course, he became pastor of a congregation at Henley on the Thames, where he remained for a few years.
完成学术课程后，他成为泰晤士河畔亨利一个会众的牧师，在那里停留了几年。
In 1747 he was called to London, to succeed Mr. John Hill, whose Sermons are still highly esteemed, as minister of the Independent church meeting in Three Cranes, Thames Street, and was soon after chosen (then a high honour) one of the preachers of the Merchants’ Lecture, Pinner’s Hall.
1747年他被召到伦敦，接替约翰·希尔先生，其讲道至今仍备受推崇，担任在泰晤士街三鹤巷聚会的独立教会的牧师，不久后被选为（当时是很高的荣誉）品纳厅商人讲座的讲道者之一。
He also, for some time, in conjunction with Mr. Samuel Hayward, conducted a course of Casuistical Lectures on the Lord’s day evenings, which was afterwards published under the title of ‘Cases of Conscience,’ and has passed through a number of editions.
他还与撒母耳·海沃德先生一起，在主日晚上进行了一段时间的良心案例讲座，后来以《良心案例》为题出版，并经过多次再版。
Some time after his settlement in London he opened an academy, in which he instructed a number of young men in the languages, in natural philosophy, and in theology.
在伦敦定居一段时间后，他开办了一所学院，在其中教导许多年轻人语言、自然哲学和神学。
In 1753 he published a work entitled ‘Philosophia Sacra; or, The Principles of Natural Philosophy, extracted from Divine Revelation.’
1753年他出版了一部名为《神圣哲学；或从神启示中提取的自然哲学原理》的作品。
The work discovered learning and ingenuity, but being based on a false principle, has, like the other illustrations and defenses of Hutchinsonianism, fallen into not unmerited neglect.
这部作品显示了学问和才智，但由于基于错误的原理，就像哈钦森主义的其他阐释和辩护一样，已陷入不无道理的忽视中。
In the year 1755, he published, under the title, ‘A Form of Sound Words,’ an excellent analysis and explication of the Westminster Assembly’s Shorter Catechism.
1755年，他以《纯正话语的规模》为题出版了对威斯敏斯特议会小要理问答的优秀分析和解释。
The ‘Letters on Theron and Aspasio,’ by Sandeman, first published in 1757, attracted Mr. Pike’s attention, and his study of these subjects led him to modify considerably his views respecting the nature of faith, and the manner in which it answers the purposes assigned to it in the plan of salvation.
桑德曼的《致忒伦和阿斯帕西奥的信》，首次出版于1757年，引起了派克先生的注意，他对这些主题的研究使他大幅修改了关于信心本质的观点，以及信心在救恩计划中回应其被指定目的的方式。
This change of opinion led, through a course of unpleasant controversy, to the termination of his ministerial relation with the church in Three Cranes’ Court, in the year 1765.
这种观点的改变，通过一系列不愉快的争论，导致了他与三鹤巷教会的牧养关系在1765年的终止。
Soon after he joined the Sandemanian or Glassite church in Bull and Mouth street, who called him to the office of the eldership among them; he afterwards removed to a congregation in that connection in Trowbridge, in his native county, where he laboured with much acceptance, till the infirmities of a premature old age came on him; and after a short confinement he died in the spring of 1773, at the age of 56 years.
不久后他加入了牛嘴街的桑德曼派或格拉斯派教会，他们呼召他在他们中间担任长老职分；他后来迁到他本县特罗布里奇与该派有联系的会众中，在那里非常受欢迎地劳作，直到过早衰老的疾病临到他；经过短暂的病卧，他于1773年春天去世，享年56岁。
Calumnious reports were circulated as to his having contracted intemperate habits, and it was said he died under a cloud; but his biographer, Walter Wilson, Esq., no way prejudiced in his favour by attachment to his peculiar views, states that ‘he can assure his readers that such reports were utterly without foundation; and that he with great satisfaction takes the opportunity of publicly contradicting a report so calamitous to the reputation of an injured individual, and so unfavourable to the interests of religion.’
关于他染上放纵习惯的诽谤报告在流传，据说他在阴云下死去；但他的传记作者沃尔特·威尔逊先生，绝不因对其特殊观点的依附而偏袒他，声明”他可以向读者保证这些报告完全没有根据；他非常满意地抓住机会公开反驳这个对受伤个人名誉如此灾难性、对宗教利益如此不利的报告。”
In the prospect of dissolution, the principles unfolded in the following tract supported his heart.
在面临死亡的前景时，以下小册子中阐述的原理支撑着他的心。
He was calm, resigned, and happy in the faith of the truth, and the hope of eternal life, and instead of his sun setting under a cloud it shone brilliant to the last.
他在真理的信心和永生的盼望中平静、顺服且快乐，他的太阳非但没有在阴云下落下，反而闪耀辉煌直到最后。
The Tract that follows is composed of extracts from Mr. Pike’s writings.
接下来的小册子由派克先生著作的摘录组成。
The first part of it is to be found in his ‘Dispassionate Narrative of the Rise, Progress, and Issue of the Late Schism in the church under the pastoral care of Samuel Pike.’
其第一部分可在他的《撒母耳·派克牧养的教会中近期分裂的兴起、发展和结果的客观叙述》中找到。
London. 1760. Pages 93-106.
伦敦。1760年。第93-106页。
The tenth section does not appear in any former reprint.
第十节在任何先前的重印中都没有出现。
The second part is taken from his ‘Free Grace indeed !’
第二部分取自他的《真正的白白恩典！》
London. 1760. Pages 29-37.
伦敦。1760年。第29-37页。
This part also does not appear in any former edition of the ‘Brief Thoughts.’
这部分在《简要思考》的任何先前版本中也没有出现。
The third part is extracted from the same pamphlet, pages 62-78.
第三部分从同一小册子中摘录，第62-78页。
In the year 1790, the late Charles Stuart, of Dunearn, Esq., M.D., the son-in-law of Dr. John Erskine, the friend of Andrew Fuller, a man who united in a remarkable degree, to use Dr. M’Crie’s words in reference to him, ‘the honourable feelings of the gentleman, the refined and liberal thinking of the scholar, and the unaffected and humble piety of the Christian,’ published without the author’s name, the Tract, with the exceptions noted, under the title of ‘Brief Thoughts.’
1790年，已故的邓恩查尔斯·斯图尔特先生，医学博士，约翰·厄斯金博士的女婿，安德鲁·富勒的朋友，一个用麦克里博士的话来说，在显著程度上结合了”绅士的高尚情感、学者的精炼和自由思想，以及基督徒的真诚和谦卑敬虔”的人，在没有作者姓名的情况下，以《简要思考》为题出版了这本小册子，除了所注明的例外。
It was adopted by the Edinburgh Society for publishing Religious Tracts, founded in 1793, and forms the fourteenth of their series.
它被成立于1793年的爱丁堡宗教小册子出版协会采用，成为他们系列的第十四本。
It was also received into the series of the London Religious Tract Society, and published in two tracts, No. 294, 295, with the separate titles of, ‘Hindrances to believe the Gospel,’ and ‘Rest in Christ.’
它也被收入伦敦宗教小册子协会的系列中，以两本小册子出版，编号294、295，分别题为《相信福音的障碍》和《在基督里安息》。
To the very neat edition of the Tract published in 48vo, at Kelso, 1851, the editor, the Rev. Horace Bonar, has appended as a third part, an excellent letter of the late Henry David Inglis, advocate, ‘On holding fast the beginning of our Confidence.’
对于1851年在凯尔索出版的48开本非常精美的小册子版本，编者霍勒斯·博纳牧师已将已故辩护律师亨利·大卫·英格利斯的一封优秀信件作为第三部分附加，题为《持定我们起初确实的信心》。
This Tract has been very highly estimated both by theologians and by Christians,—the former admiring its lucidity and comprehensiveness as a statement of doctrine; the latter delighting in it as ‘the sincere milk of the word,’ most wholesome spiritual food.
这本小册子受到神学家和基督徒的高度评价——前者赞赏它作为教义陈述的清晰性和全面性；后者以它为”纯净的灵奶”、最有益的属灵食物而欣喜。
There is an interesting incident in reference to it recorded in Dr. Hanna’s Life of Dr. Chalmers.
汉纳博士的《查默斯博士传》中记录了一个与之相关的有趣事件。
Soon after the publication of ‘The Farewell Address to the Parishioners of Kilmany,’ Dr. Stuart and the author met in the streets of Edinburgh, and got into a very animated conversion on religious subjects, particularly the nature of faith and its functions in the saving economy.
在《致基尔曼尼教区居民的告别辞》出版后不久，斯图尔特博士和作者在爱丁堡街头相遇，就宗教主题进行了非常热烈的交谈，特别是关于信心的本质及其在救恩经纶中的功能。
Dr. Stuart was not quite satisfied with some of his friend’s modes of expression on these subjects, and the long conversation did not seem to have removed the dissatisfaction.
斯图尔特博士对他朋友在这些主题上的某些表达方式不太满意，长时间的交谈似乎并没有消除这种不满。
At last, just as they were about to part, Dr. Chalmers said, ‘If you wish to see my views clearly and distinctly stated, you will find them in a tract entitled ‘Brief Thoughts.’
最后，就在他们要分别时，查默斯博士说：”如果你想看到我的观点被清楚明确地陈述，你会在一本题为《简要思考》的小册子中找到它们。”
‘Why,’ said Dr. Stuart, ‘that tract was published by me.’
“为什么，”斯图尔特博士说，”那本小册子是我出版的。”
Dr. Chalmers used to describe the whole scene very graphically, and adduce it as an instance of how men may think they differ, while really they agree.’
查默斯博士常常非常生动地描述整个场景，并引用它作为人们可能认为他们不同，而实际上他们同意的一个例子。
It is very justly stated by the latest editor of the tract that ‘its great value is that it states the Gospel with such point and plainness, that in the simple statement of it mistakes are either prevented or corrected.’
该小册子的最新编者非常正确地指出”它的巨大价值在于它如此要点明确地陈述福音，以至于在它的简单陈述中，错误要么被预防要么被纠正。”
It is inserted in this Collection, not for its rareness but for its intrinsic excellence, and because appearing generally under the humble guise of a religious tract, it may fail to attract from students of divinity the attention it deserves, as a well-thought and clearly expressed illustration of some of the most important and difficult questions in Christian theology, both theoretical and practical.
它被收入这个文集中，不是因为它的稀有性，而是因为它内在的卓越，并且因为它通常以宗教小册子的谦逊形式出现，可能无法从神学学生那里吸引到它应得的注意，作为对基督教神学中一些最重要和最困难问题（无论是理论的还是实践的）的深思熟虑和清晰表达的阐释。
In conclusion, I repeat the declaration I have made elsewhere: ‘I consider these Brief Thoughts’ as among the most precious of mere human compositions, containing a singularly clear scriptural statement of those principles which lie at the foundation of those just views of the Christian method of salvation which are, under divine influence, the great source both of holiness and comfort.’
最后，我重申我在别处所作的声明：”我认为这些《简要思考》是纯粹人类作品中最珍贵的之一，包含了对那些原理的特别清晰的圣经陈述，这些原理是基督教救恩方法正确观点的基础，在神的影响下，是圣洁和安慰的伟大源泉。”
Table of Contents
目录
PREFATORY NOTICE
序言说明
I. CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, AND TIIE HINDRANCES TO BELIEVE IT.
一、关于福音和相信福音的障碍
II. CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE GOSPEL BELIEVED GIVES PEACE AND HOPE.
二、关于所信的福音给予平安和盼望的方式
III. CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH A BELIEVER COMES AT TRUE SATISFACTION ABOUT HIS STATE TOWARDS GOD.
三、关于信徒如何对自己在神面前的状态获得真正满足的方式
CONCLUSION
结论