SERMONS BY JABEZ BUNTING, D.D. VOLUME I. AND PAUL, AS HIS MANNER WAS, WENT IN UNTO THEM, AND THREE SABBATH DAYS REASONED WITH THEM OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES, LONDON: JOHN MASON, 27, CITY-ROAD; SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 100. 0. 6. ADVERTISEMENT. THE author was long known, both within and beyond the bounds of his own communion, as one of the most powerful of preachers. It is matter of regret that he did not yield to the wishes of numerous friends by using the press more freely. That genuine modesty which attends and crowns high intellectual qualities did much to restrain him from compliance; while his ready plea was found in the number and magnitude of his public engagements. On a careful examination of the manuscripts he left, his executors wisely concluded that it would be wrong to consign them to obscurity; and a volume was accordingly announced, to be edited by his son, the Rev. W. M. Bunting. Though other arrangements were subsequently made, Mr. Bunting has lent assistance of no common value in the revisal of most of the Discourses which compose this series. It is needless to repeat what has become proverbial in speaking of posthumous works, or to enlarge on the disadvantage of having to reproduce what has been heard with admiration from the pulpit. Circumstances often add impressiveness to the appeals of a speaker. He was a shrewd man, doubtless, who, when surprised by a request from his hearers for the publication of a sermon which had been delivered during a terrific storm, replied, that "if they would contribute the thunder, he would give the sermon." Apart from any remarkable circum |