On giving these Sermons to the press, at the request of many by whom they were listened to with great attention, and by whom, he trusts, they may be read with profit, the Author desires to express his obligation for different trains of thought, especially in the fifth Sermon, to the conversation of a friend, from an unpublished manuscript of whose he has quoted a few words in the 154th page. Many also of the thoughts contained in the last Sermon, may, he doubts not, be traced to the "Letters on the Kingdom of Christ," by the Rev. F. Maurice, which he had recently been reading when that Sermon was written. BRIGHSTONE RECTORY, June 1839. CONTENTS. Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad for Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put |