INTRODUCTION. ume. IN the autumn of the year 1831, the author delivered a course of lectures upon the Law and the Gospel, to the congregation of St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, of which he was at that time the Rector. The Editor of a collection of works called the Christian Library, requested them for publication in the series of volumes which he was preparing for the press. Thus they were first printed in the year 1833. In the same year a second edition of them was printed, in a separate volThese were circulated and sold with a rapidity which was wholly unexpected. God was pleased to make them useful to the awakening and instruction of his children, to an extent, which has both astonished and humbled the writer. Many precious instances of conversion by their instructions through the divine power of God the Holy Ghost, have been brought to the knowledge of the author; for which he desires from his inmost soul to give the praise and glory to the God of all grace. Some of these have been of persons who are now preaching the blessed truths, which God has been pleased thus to reveal to them from his holy word. But these two editions have been for some years wholly dispensed abroad,— and the writer has been repeatedly urged to publish another edition. The simple reason which has delayed it, has been the deepening conviction in his mind of the importance of the truths which are here taught, and his unwillingness to print the Lectures again, without such a revision and enlargement of them, as he could find no time to give. This he has at last accomplished, after much delay; and yet he feels, as he sends out the present work, more deeply humbled than before, with a consciousness of its unworthiness, and a reverence for the great and glorious truths which he has attempted to proclaim. He believes this book to contain the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God,―stated in simplicity and clearness, in perfect accordance with the instructions of the Holy Scriptures, and the Liturgy, Articles, and Homilies of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He trusts that the Glorious Jesus, whom he worships as his Lord and his God, will be pleased to use the work, for the manifestation of his glory, the bringing of the vessels of his mercy to an acknowledgment and obedience of the truth, and the guarding of his Church against the vital and dangerous errors, which these days have again brought forth. This Glorious King of Sion, the author would crown with all the powers of his heart and soul, and he begs the readers of this work,-while they remem ber him in prayer for which he affectionately asks,-to unite with him, in adoring and glorifying, God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. CONTENTS. ww LECTURES ON THE LAW. PAGE. LECT. III.-The Spirituality of the Law, LECT. IV. The present use of the Law, LECT. V.-The convincing power of the Law, LECT. VIII.-Christ, the Righteousness of the Law, LECT. IX.-The Law, the Christian's Rule of Life, |