ADVERTISEMENT. THE early and sudden death of the writer of these Sermons makes it certain that they were not prepared, or indeed intended, by him, for publication. They are the discourses he preached in the execution of his parochial duty. It is possible therefore that they may contain passages taken from other writers, and which are unacknowledged. The editor knows not that they are liable to this censure: wherever his own recollection has enabled him to make such a discovery, he has pointed it out if more such instances are to be found (he trusts there are not) he begs the blame may rest with him, not with the deceased writer, who certainly never intended to have made this use of them. In fact, the editor was urged to publish the Sermons as he found them, by some of the neighbouring friends of the deceased: who having witnessed the good effects they produced in the parishes in which they were delivered, wished to give them a more extended circulation. One topic which he urged with great earnestness and success, was a frequent attendance on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Of his discourses on this subject but one will be found in this collection; because, in his life-time, he digested the others into the form of a pamphlet, which he published; and which was productive of very beneficial effects in his neighbourhood, as well by removing the scruples of the fearful, as by awakening the attention of the negligent, and informing the minds of the uninstructed. CONTENTS. This is a faithful saying; and these things I will that |