SERMONS BY THE REV. HOBART CAUNTER, B.D. DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF THANET, AND CURATE OF ST. PAUL'S (LATE PORTLAND) CHAPEL, LONDON: EDWARD BUll, holles sTREET; AND J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, & WATERLOO PLACE. 1832. ΤΟ THE VERY REVEREND GEORGE CHANDLER, D.C.L. DEAN OF CHICHESTER, AND RECTOR OF ALL SOULS, ST. MARYLEBONE, THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. IN stating that the following discourses were not written with a view to publication, I do so, not to propitiate the severity of criticism, but merely to avail myself of the opportunity of observing, that it is very probable I may, in these Sermons, have occasionally appropriated the sentiments of others without acknowledgment; I have not, however, done so designedly. The fact is, that wherever I have remembered any such debts, I have admitted them by a reference to the respective authors to whom they are due; but, not having noted where I may have borrowed a sentiment or illustration when the Sermons were written, not thinking that they would ever meet the public eye, it is possible that I may have borrowed without recollecting it. I hope, therefore, that I shall be acquitted of wilful plagiarism, should the ideas of others be occasionally detected in this volume |