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PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOL. V.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED,

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR,

BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D.

A NEW EDITION.

CLONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND;

AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

C1118.1.11

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1875, March 22.
Bequest of

James Halker 5.D., G. L.D. 26.2.1814.) President of Haw. Univ.

Strahan and Preston, Printers-Street, London.

TO THE READER.

AFTER the very favourable reception

which the Four former Volumes of

my Sermons have met with, both at home and abroad, I had resolved not to presume on offering any more to the public. To this publication of another Volume, my present situation gave rise, being now, by the infirmity of very advanced age, laid aside from all the labours of the pulpit, and possessing, of course, more retirement and leisure than formerly, it occurred to me sometimes, to look back into Sermons most of which had been composed a great many years ago, with a view to observe how far they agreed in the strain of thought with those which I had written at a later period. In reviewing them, passages sometimes appeared which I imagined

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