TO

HIS MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND

JOHN HIBBERT, ESQ.,

of Bray Wick Lodge, Berks,

BY WHOM,

AS A TRIBUTE OF FILIAL AFFECTION TO HIS

VENERABLE FATHER,

The Pictorial Chancel Window

IN THE

CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL'S, BRAY,

WAS PRESENTED,

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY

INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR.

ADVERTISEMENT.

It is not so much from the public at large, or from any specific portion of the general community, as from his former parishioners, that the author of the following discourses hopes to gain a favourable reception for them. On public attention he pretends to no claim; and much prefers the privacy of his retreat from even parochial responsibilities to any the most agreeable notoriety. But to a numerous flock, formerly the objects of his ministerial solicitude and pastoral care, and continuing still related to him as parishionary friends and neighbours, he has too long owed a pastoral debt which can no otherwise be discharged in a manner so satisfactory either to himself, or, as he has reason to believe, to many of them, as of them, as by the small volume which he now ventures to submit to their perusal. It will be found to contain a concise aggregate, and practical exhibition of those leading principles of gospel truth which, under the summary title given to them by the apostle Paul,-"JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED,"—have formed the substance of his pulpit and parochial instructions during a ministry of thirty-six years continuance in this place.

Of the pastoral debt now acknowledged by him, the author felt properly sensible on his retirement