PREFACE. THESE addresses are printed as they were delivered, unless they may be occasionally condensed by omission of matters of local or temporary interest. There were also, probably, passages enlarged upon at the time; thus the brevity with which some of the subjects seem treated may be accounted for. They were written in the midst of various avocations connected with large parishes in which the best of my days were spent. I am glad, at the termination of a long ministry, to place upon record my unaltered adherence to views of Divine Truth, which I have held, unmodified by the many phases of the passing hour. This is my motive for publishing; and these pages make no claim to anything besides. I have committed them to the press with earnest hope that they may be useful, not only to the many connected with me by the ties of affinity and affection, but to all who may cast their eyes upon them. And here I have great confidence, also; for this reason, that they contain much of those "words, the entrance of which giveth light: it giveth understanding unto the simple."-(Ps. cxix. 130.) R. W. B. Vesey Place, Kingstown, "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, "And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father! And he said, Thy "And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword, before Barak: so that "And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great 333 |