BEING A

TREATISE ON PREACHING,

AS ADAPTED TO A

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONGREGATION:

IN A

SERIES OF LETTERS TO A YOUNG CLERGYMAN.

BY THE

REV. W. GRESLEY, M. A. 187~

LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH.

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.-2 TIM. ii. 15.

FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION,

WITH

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES,

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE

REV. BENJAMIN I. HAIGHT, M. A.

PROFESSOR OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND PULPIT ELOQUENCE IN THE GENERAL
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE
UNITED STATES, AND RECTOR OF ALL SAINTS CHURCH, NEW-YORK.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:

GEORGE S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-STREET.

M DCCC XLIV.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843,

BY D. APPLETON & Co.,

In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New-York.

NEW-YORK:
JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER,

No. 33 Ann-street.

i

TO

THE REV. BIRD WILSON, D. D.,

PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC DIVINITY IN THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

WHOSE DEEP AND VARIED LEARNING,

UNAFFECTED PIETY,

CONSTANT GENTLENESS AND AFFABILITY,

WHILE ADORNING THE CHAIR HE FILLS, COMMAND THE RESPECT
AND SECURE THE LOVE, AS WELL OF THOSE

WHO SIT AT HIS FEET TO LEARN,

AS OF THOSE WHOSE PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE AMONG

THE NUMBER OF HIS FRIENDS,

THIS EDITION

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY HIS GRATEFUL PUPIL AND

MUCH OBLIGED FRIEND,

THE EDITOR.

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