THESE Sermons were first preached in Albany Street Church, Edinburgh, and afterwards in Trinity Church, Glasgow, from brief notes, and have only now been written for publication. Whilst in substance and general outline they are the same as when first spoken, there are, doubtless, such differences in expression and illustration as would be likely to occur in writing out in full what had been prepared in brief notes many years before; especially as no care has been taken to distinguish between matter of recent and of older suggestion.
In publishing these Discourses, the Author has yielded, with hesitation, to the urgent and oft-repeated request of his hearers, many of whom are now themselves preachers, scattered hither and thither, but who, in the recollection of the generous