O ALMIGHTY GOD, who, by thy Son Jesus Christ, didst give to thy Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts, and commandedst him earnestly to feed thy flock; make, we beseech thee, all bishops and pastors diligently to preach thy holy word, and the people obediently to follow the same, that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by ALFRED LEE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Delaware Disirict. Hobart Press: No. 57, ANN-STREET. The present work is the substance of a series of discourses, prepared in the course of Parochial duty, and without any view to publication. The course extended beyond the Author's first intention, and called for not unfrequent reference to some of the questions that are earnestly controverted at the present day. The Author has yielded to the judgment and advice of some of his friends in submitting them to the public, as an humble offering to the cause of Protestant and Evangelic Truth. |