PREFACE. THE following Sermons, delivered in the parish church of St. Ebbe, Oxford, are now made public, in compliance with the frequent and urgent request of many in that congregation, from which the author has been lately separated. Prompted by an affectionate attachment, he was induced to gratify their wish that this volume might become a memorial of ministerial regard, and of the continuance of a most lively interest in the spiritual welfare of his former hearers. He shall not cease to pray for them, and to desire that they may be “filled with the knowledge of the will of God in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that they may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God." SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 15, 1826. CONTENTS. Numbers xxiii. 9.-From the top of the rocks I see him, and I Kings xix. 11, 12, 13.—And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. |