Cambridge: Printed at the University Press. FOR MACMILLAN & CO. London: BELL AND DALDY. Oxford: J. H. PARKER. Edinburgh: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS. Dublin: HODGES AND SMITH. Glasgow: JAMES MACLEHOSE. Belfast: PHILLIPS. AND LATE DONNELLAN LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. Cambridge: MACMILLAN & CO. 1855. 103.9.186. PREFACE. THE Sermons contained in this Volume were written, with but one exception, for the Parish Churches of St Mary, Dublin, and St Anne, Belfast; in the former of which parishes I was for some years curate, and in the latter assistant preacher. They are now published, chiefly in consequence of several members of those congregations wishing to be enabled to read what they had heard. That they may be of some use, especially in the department of Scripture interpretation from the pulpit, must be my first wish and prayer: my second is, that they may remind some of those once committed to my spiritual charge of their former pastor and teacher. I must apologize for the long delay which has taken place in the publication of the Volume. It has been due, partly to ill-health, and partly to other and engrossing occupation. C. P. R. BELFAST, b |