DEDICATION. JL® o Zó flic Church of Christ assembling in Bury Street, London. Dear Christian Friends, beloved in our Lord, HAVING dedicated to you my first volume of sermons, printed twenty-six years ago, I thought it proper to address this to you, being the last I amever likely topublish, that I might testify to theworld the continuance of my sincere affection for you; and signify to you my ardent desire to do what I can, in my present weak state of health, to promote the welfare ofyour souls. The G0 Essay on the Powers and Contests of Flesh and Spirit," which is added at the end of these discourses, has been written many years, and I hope it may be useful, through the blessing of God, to lead private christians to form a right judgment in many things relating to their spiritual concerns. As I trust all these papers contain the truths of God, which I have thus recommended to you, so I am persuaded you will find them to be exactly conformable to the New Testament, in all your reviews and studies of that blessed book. It is there my hopes of eternal life are fixed; and in this hope, I trust all of you will be found walking sted- fastly in the same faith, by the same rule, till you are at length made happy partakers of the same salvation. The great harmony which has subsisted betwixt me and my dear and Worthy brother and colleague, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Price, for more than forty-three years, withoikt any interruption, has been ,very comfortable to us, and a considerable blessingto you. May the Spirit of God render his continued labours amongst you, in the gospel, very serviceable, for your further establishment and growth in grace ! With this design, I commit these discours0 for the providence of Christ, and commit him and you also into his-hands, to whom I doub,t not, you have often surrendered yourselves.
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