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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
am
ever likely to
publish,
that
I
might testify
to the
world
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 of
your
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 blessing
to
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.