SERMONS

ON

PRACTICAL SUBJECTS.

BY THE

REV. EDWARD CRAIG, M. A.

OF St. EDMUND HALL, OXON. AND MINISTER OF St. JAMES' CHAPEL,
EDINBURGH.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES NISBET,

BERNERS STREET.

MDCCCXXVIII.

TO THE

REV. JOHN BIRD SUMNER, M. A.

PREBENDARY OF DURHAM, AND VICAR OF

MAPLE-DURHAM, OXON.

DEAR SIR,

In endeavouring to give to a portion of my pastoral instruction a more permanent duration than the fleeting hour appointed for our Sabbath ministrations, I have had two objects in view. I have wished, by the blessing of GOD, to be more extensively useful to my fellow-men: and I have been anxious also, at the same time, to bear testimony to the cordial and growing esteem which your consistent maintenance of Christian truth, both in doctrine and practice, commands for you among your brethren, and the community at large.

IN placing my volume under your patronage by this public record of my respect, I have secured the one point. And if in an age when the press teems with the enormities of vice, and the absurdities of fiction, when the principles of true religion