NEW JERSEY COLLEGE LIBRARY SERMON S, BY HUGH BLAIR, D. D. F.R.S. Ed. One of the MINISTERS of the HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR of RHETORIC and BELLES LETTRES IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. V. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR, By JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D. THE FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street ; For T. CADELL jun, and W. DAVIES, in the Strand; MDCCCII. (RECAP), TO THE READER. AFTER the which the Four former Volumes of my Sermons have met with, both at home and abroad, I had refolved not to presume on offering any more to the Publick. To this publication of another Volume, my prefent fituation gave rife. Being now, by the infirmity of very advanced age, laid afide from all the labours of the pulpit, and poffeffing, of course, more retirement and leisure than formerly, it occurred to me, fometimes, to look back into Sermons most of which had been compofed a great many years ago, with a view to obferve how far they agreed in the strain of thought with those which I had written. at a later period. In reviewing them, paffages fometimes appeared which I ima A 2 5959 154 gined 54726 cepa |