Изображения страниц
PDF
EPUB

79320

BX5733 R6

еса

ΤΟ

THE CONGREGATION

WORSHIPPING IN

TRINITY CHAPEL, BRIGHTON,

FROM AUGUST 15, 1847, TO AUGUST 15, 1853,

THESE

RECOLLECTIONS OF SERMONS

PREACHED BY THEIR LATE PASTOR

ARE DEDICATED.

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

IN publishing these Sermons, a few words of explana tion are necessary.

They are not notes previously prepared, nor are they Sermons written before delivery. They are simply "Recollections:" sometimes dictated by the Preacher himself to the younger members of a family in which he was interested, at their urgent entreaty; sometimes written out by himself for them when they were at a distance and unable to attend his ministry.*

They have been carefully preserved, and are now published without corrections or additions, just as they were found. Mr. Robertson attached no value whatever to them, and never gave any directions concerning them. The only Sermon which saw the light in his lifetime is now republished in this volume, with his own preface, explaining how it was preserved, and that it was printed by desire of his congregation.

Unfortunately, in some instances this series is incomplete. The fourth of the Advent Lectures † was never written out, owing to his uncertain and suffering state of health; and this cause, combined with his remarkable dislike to recalling his discourses-a peculiarity known to all who were intimately acquainted with him-has made these

* A reference to a paragraph in his own preface to "The Israelite's Grave" (page 235) explains this.

The fourth and last Advent Lecture was "The Jewish;" on the text, "He came unto his own, and his own received him not."-John i. 11.

recollections more broken and imperfect than they would otherwise have been.

It is not necessary to say one word in this place of the character of Mr. Robertson's teaching; it is best illustrated in the published volumes of his Sermons; and yet it seems needful to say, that even these suggest but a very faint idea of the influence that teaching exercised on all who came within its sphere.

« ПредыдущаяПродолжить »