Discourses and sayings of ... Jesus Christ illustrated in a series of expositions

all things, whose judgments are a great deep, after having remarkably prepared, both intellectually and spiritually, for eminent usefulness, withdrew so soon, and so suddenly, from the sphere of ministerial labour. These Lectures, viewed as the ordinary weekly preparations of a young minister, are, for depth of thought and feeling, and for beauty of expression, indeed wonderful.

The admirable illustrations of the fourteenth chapter of the gospel by John, by my lamented friend, the Rev. DR HEUGH, did not come into my hand till the Exposition of that chapter had passed through the press. Had I seen them before I composed it, I might probably have thought such a work unnecessary; and even after it was prepared for the press, the perusal of them might, perhaps, have on the same ground shaken my determination to give it to the world. I do not, however, regret the circumstances in which I find myself placed. By the perusal of DR HEUGH's masterly lectures, as well as of the eloquent discourses of my gifted kinsman, my impressions of the transcendant excellence of our common theme have been deepened; and in declaring the unsearchable riches of our common Lord's wisdom and love, I have a solemn delightful "fellowship of the spirit" with those two very dear friends, who, "being dead, yet speak." Their expositions will come into many hands into which mine will not;-mine may come into some hands into which theirs may not ;and should they all come into the same hands, I am

ductory Essay to a Selection from Jeremy Taylor's Works, his Remains, with a Memoir by his Friend, G. G. Cunningham, Esq.,-and the Lectures referred to,—are permanent memorials of his endowments and acquirements as a scholar, a theologian, and a christian minister.

persuaded our occasional diversity, and our general agreement, will, each in its own way, conduce to stir and to satisfy the minds of our readers.

Specific obligations to the authors consulted have generally been acknowledged in the margin, and would have been so uniformly, but for the fact that most of the discourses were written without the press being seen even dimly in the distance; and therefore, except where not merely thoughts and expressions, but sentences, had been borrowed, the marks of reference were not very scrupulously appended in the original manuscript.

As the Work was intended for the edification of Christians in general, whatever could be interesting or useful only to the scholar has, as in my Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter, been cast into the notes in the margin, or at the end of the several Expositions. More time and attention have been bestowed on the collection and preparation of these notes, than, from their comparative fewness and brevity, might perhaps be supposed; and to my brethren in the ministry, I am persuaded, they will not be the least acceptable and useful part of the Work.

In conducting the Work through the press, I have had the kind assistance of several friends. To the Rev. Dr JOHN TAYLOR of Auchtermuchty, for the careful revision of the corrected proofs, and to my brother-in-law, the Rev. DAVID SMITH of Biggar, for the preparation of the indices, I think it but due to make this public acknowledgment.

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