SERMONS ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. BY THE REV. ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D. LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. 1856. 100.3.469. PREFACE. THE Sermons in this Volume, with the exception of that on Job, are arranged according to the order of the Sunday Lessons; and indeed the selection of the characters has been regulated in some measure with this view. The concluding Sermon on Antichrist was not written with any reference to this series; but, independently of other reasons for its introduction, it is so connected with some of the subjects as to render it a suitable termination for the Volume. While such works are in some sense offered to the public, yet rather would the Writer in this as in all other things wish to look up more entirely to the Author of all good; and, as the "lad with five barley loaves," present these through His Church to the gracious Eye of his Divine Master; if peradventure He would look on them and accept them, and, if he might say it without presumption, take them into His allhallowing hands, and multiply and sanctify them to the great ends of giving food to His people. STINCHCOMBE, October. 1856. |