THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM.

Ἕκαστον τῶν εἰρημένων μετὰ ἀκριβείας διερευνησώμεθα ἵνα ἴδωμεν τῆς γνώμης του πατριάρχου τὸ φιλόθεον . . . . . Σκόπει πῶς ἐξ ἀρχῆς καὶ ἐκ προοιμίων έγυμνάζετν δ δίκαιος τὰ μὴ φαινόμενα τῶν φαινομένων προτιμᾷν, και τὰ μελλοντα τῶν ἐν χερσιν ὄντων.—Chrysost. Homil. XXXI. in Cap. 12. Genes.

ILLUSTRATED

IN THE

LIFE OF ABRAHAM:

A SERIES OF DISCOURSES

PREACHED IN ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, EVERTON;

BY

THE REV. R. P. BUDDICOM, M. A. F. A.S.

MINISTER OF THAT CHURCH, AND LATE FELLOW

OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE;
AND SOLD BY L. AND G. SEELEY,

FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXIX.

BODI

L. AND

G. SEELEY,

WESTON GREEN, THAMES DITTON, SURREY.

ΤΟ

THE CONGREGATION

OF

ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, EVERTON.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

A LARGE proportion of the years usually allotted to the life of man have gone by, since I introduced some portions of ministerial labour to public notice, under the same sanction, which I now seek for the following pages. Since that time, many of those, unto whom it was my privilege to preach, in whatever weakness and inability, the unsearchable riches of Christ, have passed into the invisible world; but their kindness and affection are fresh in the memory of my heart. To those who sur