P R E F A C E. The following Sermons do not constitute a series. They were delivered in several churches,-in some instances at considerable intervals ; - and not all of them to congregations of precisely the same description. Most of them accordingly will be found to have no connexion with each other than " that uniformity of thought and design which will always be found in the writings of the same person, when he writes with simplicity and in earnest.” more The subjects touched on in some of them are such as I should have thought it desirable, had circumstances permitted, to |