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SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS.

SCRIPTURE

CHARACTERS.

BY

ROBERT S. CANDLISH, D.D.,

FREE ST. GEORGE'S, EDINBURGH.

LONDON

T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;

EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

MDCCCLVII.

101. a. 35.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

It is not mere affectation that makes me avoid the use of the title "Sermons" in designating the following papers. Nearly all of them were, in point of fact, written and delivered as pulpit discourses, either in the course of the Author's ordinary ministry or on particular occasions; and they will doubtless be found to bear the usual marks of compositions intended rather to be heard than to be read. But I would not wish them to be regarded as fair specimens of what I think the preaching of the gospel to a congregation, from Sabbath to Sabbath, ought to be. Not inadmissible at intervals, for the sake of variety-not inconsistent with evangelical doctrine, or incapable of a practical application-they are still not altogether what one would call "gospei sermons." At all events, I prefer that they should be judged by a somewhat more flexible and accommodating standard than I might myself apply to compositions professing to be the utterances of ambassadors for Christ, in the direct discharge of their commission, beseeching men to be reconciled to God.

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