PREFACE. ON the completion of a Second Volume of this series of Practical Sermons, it becomes my duty to express my gratitude for the countenance and encouragement I have received in the prosecution of my work, and to offer my public acknowledgements to the Prelates and Clergymen who have done me the honour to entrust me with their Sermons. The present Volume contains some valuable Discourses preached on special occasions; but the greater number are such as were delivered in the ordinary course of duty, and will be found to be of that plain, practical and affectionate character, which, I doubt not, will render this Volume acceptable to all who desire to be supplied with such Sermons, as they may read in private, or to their families, with edification and instruction. My hope is, that whenever this series shall be completed, it may prove a permanently useful work; and, at the same time, a record of the zeal and earnestness with which those, who are known chiefly on account of the moderation of their views, and the respectability of |