PREACHED IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH,

GLASGOW.

BY THOMAS CHALMERS, D. D.
MINISTER OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, GLASGOW.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

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ΤΟ

THE MEMBERS

OF

THE CONGREGATION

OF

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, GLASGOW,

THE FOLLOWING SERMONS

ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH A LIVELY FEELING ON THE PART OF THEIR AUthor,

OF ALL THE KINDNESS AND GOOD WILL

WHICH HE HAS EXPERIENCED,

DURING THE TIME OF HIS CONNECTION WITH THEM,

AND

WITH EVERY ASSURANCE OF HIS AFFECTIONATE DESIRE

FOR THEIR BEST INTERESTS.

PREFACE.

THE following Sermons are of too miscellaneous a character to be arranged according to the succession of their topics, and they are, therefore, presented to the reader as so many compositions that are almost wholly independent of each other.

Two of the Sermons treat of Predestination, and the Sin against the Holy Ghost. There are topics of a highly speculative character, in the system of Christian Doctrine, which it is exceedingly difficult to manage, without interesting the curiosity rather than the conscience of the reader. And yet, it is from their fitness of appli cation to the conscience, that they derive