This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... The following discourses being denominated PlilN Seemons, it may thence be rightly inferred that they have no pretentions to uncommon or profound thoughts, or to polished or elegant composition. The author has been employed for a quarter of a century in preaching the gospel to a considerable number of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... The following discourses being denominated PlilN Seemons, it may thence be rightly inferred that they have no pretentions to uncommon or profound thoughts, or to polished or elegant composition. The author has been employed for a quarter of a century in preaching the gospel to a considerable number of the working classes in some of the most populous parts of the kingdom. About three years ago, relaxation of the uvula so affected his voice as to prevent him from preaching so frequently as heretofore; and anxious to promote to the uttermost of his power the spiritual good of those useful classes of society among whom he chiefly laboured, he began to prepare for the press the sermons contained in the present volume. Since then a partial change of employment on the part of the author has caused considerable delay in the publication. Considering the circumstances of the persons for whom these discourses are principally intended, thay have been composed in a familiar style, the writer having mostly confined himself to the use of terms which are of Saxon derivation. Prescribed limits, and the fact that long sermons are usually wearisome to persons who have but little time to read, have compelled him to study brevity, and have prevented him from illustrating his subjects so fully as would have been agreeable to himself, as well as have rendered them more acceptable to certain classes of readers. But though sensible of many faults and imperfections in these humble discourses, the author presumes to hope that many of his readers will peruse them with spiritual profit, and that even persons of respectable education, if of evangelical sentiments, might read them for devotional purposes in the family or in the closet, without their taste being very...
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