CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

THE VIRGIN MARY.

St. Luke i. 28.-Hail, thou that art highly favoured,

the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among

Isaiah xlix. 6.-And he said, It is a light thing that

thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the

tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of

Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gen-

tiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the

end of the earth

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PREFACE.

THIS small volume of Sermons owes its publication to the suggestions of a most highly esteemed friend, on whose judgment the Author feels he may with safety rely; it is also offered as a small tribute of respect to a congregation from whom numerous kindnesses have been received, and to many of whom the Author has been led to suppose a token of remembrance would not be unacceptable. Such as it is, the volume is now offered to the public in the humble hope that the true Churchman may find in it

topics of encouragement to hold fast by his profession in these times of wavering and innovation; and that it will at least be received as a sincere though imperfect endeavour on the part of the Author to uphold the cause of that Christianity, which is no where so ably and effectively taught as in the hallowed sanctuary of THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

St. Bees, 1835.