REV. ASHTON OXENDEN,

RECTOR OF PLUCKLEY, KENT.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY;
H. WARD, CANTERBURY.

1849.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY G. J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

TO THE

PARISHIONERS OF PLUCKLEY,

AMONG WHOM THE AUTHOR HAS,

IN THE PROVIDENCE

OF GOD,

BEEN CALLED TO MINISTER,

THIS VOLUME OF PLAIN SERMONS,

ALREADY PREACHED TO THEM FROM THE PULPIT,

IS AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

IT has pleased God that the Author's ministerial labours, both in his present and former parishes, have been chiefly among his Poorer Brethren. He has felt that, on their account, his Sermons should be of the simplest description. It has, therefore, been his great desire that his preaching should be such, as to be level with the understanding of the most unlearned of his hearers. He