If you’re a Baptist, then this is your book! As one Baptist writer put it Boyce is “our first founding fathers; the founding fathers of the first Southern Baptist Seminary.” In this volume from 1887 Boyce gives us what he taught in seminary in a way that everyone can understand. This is because Boyce never considered the Abstract to be a masterpiece for the learned, but he envisioned it as a practical textbook for students and pastors. This is its great value for today, profound enough for the seminarian, simple enough for the layman.