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SERMONS.

BY

JAMES YONGE, M. A.

LATE PERPETUAL CURATE OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF TORMOHAM AND COCKINGTON, IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON; AND FORMERLY

MINISTER OF TORQUAY CHAPEL.

DEDICATED TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF HIS CONGREGATION, AS A LAST TOKEN OF HIS AFFECTIONATE REGARD.

"Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

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Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

"Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle.

"Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance."-2 Peter i. 12—15,.,

EXETER:

PRINTED BY W. C. POLLARD;

SOLD BY

MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON;

J. PARKER, OXFORD; C. UPHAM, AND W. STRONG, EXETER;

AND J. B. ROWE, PLYMOUTH,

1831.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

IT was the intention of the much lamented Author of the following Discourses, to devote a portion of the small remains of his strength, in his last illness, to the accomplishment of a design, frequently and earnestly pressed upon him by many members of his congregation, and to print, for general circulation, a volume of the Sermons he had addressed to them.

Many living friends, in no way connected with him, but as members of his flock, can attest, that he was himself unwilling to believe his labours to be worthy of such a distinction. His motives, in at length acceding to their request, will be best explained by the following Extracts from letters written to the Editor, within the few

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