THE CHIEF CONCERNS OF MAN FOR TIME AND ETERNITY. BY THE REV. E. BICKERSTETH, RECTOR OF WATTON, HERTFORDSHIRE. SECOND EDITION. PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE; FLEET STREET, LONDON. MDCCCXXXIII. TO THE CONGREGATION OF WHELER CHAPEL, SPITAL SQUARE, THIS VOLUME OF DISCOURSES PREACHED BEFORE THEM, AND PUBLISHED AT THEIR REQUEST, IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED, BY THEIR LATE MINISTER, THE AUTHOR PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE Discourses of this Volume formed a course of Valedictory Sermons, preached at Wheler Chapel in the autumn of 1830. The notes, from which they were preached, were prepared in all the pressure of engagements connected with the relinquishment of an arduous scene of labour, and they were written out, and sent to the press amidst the many calls of a new situation, and the entire charge of a Country Parish. The Author could not refuse the earnest desire of those who heard them for their publication; and his hope respecting them is, that they may be useful to a beloved Congregation, among whom the Author laboured for many years, and |