Where and became two sermons instead of one. this was the case, a line, inserted in the text, shows the point of division. Such as they are, these sermons, in the composition of which the Author, chiefly solicitous for the welfare of his hearers, has avowedly made free use of whatever he met with best calculated to promote it, are committed to the press, with the most earnest prayer, that He, who can render successful the weakest instrument, may accompany with his blessing to those who may peruse them, the infinitely important truths which they contain: and, more especially, that he may thus accompany those truths, both to some of the inhabitants of the large and overwhelming parishes, which are at present committed to the writer's spiritual care; and also to any of his former hearers at St. Giles's, Oxford, whether stated or occasional, into whose hands the book may fall. Mecklenburgh Square, CONTENTS. 2 Cor. xiii. 14.-The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, THE NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HEART. ISAIAH xxxii. 2.-A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as 1 COR. vi. 11.-And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in JOHN iii. 3.-Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, |