1477 ECCLESIASTES ANGLICANUS: BEING A TREATISE ON THE ART OF PREACHING, AS ADAPTED TO A CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONGREGATION: CONTAINED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A YOUNG CLERGYMAN. BY THE REV. W. GRESLEY, M.A. CURATE OF ST. CHAD'S, LICHFIELD, AND LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. WQS G83. 1835 PREFACE. THE greater part of the materials of the work now presented to the Public had been collected by the Author, from various sources, for his sole benefit. When he thought of preparing them for publication, it was under the impression that the knowledge which he had found to be useful to himself would prove not less beneficial to others. But before bringing his work to a conclusion he discovered, upon further inquiry into the subject, that many of his ideas had been anticipated and better expressed by previous writers. Yet, as they appear in a new shape, and with new illustrations, and as the work is still, in fact, the only one which takes a comprehensive view of the one particular subject of which it treats, the Author has thought it may not be unacceptable to those for whom it is intended. |