TO those Friends who requested the Publication of this Sermon—I have only to say, I have endeavored to recollect a considerable part of it; many ideas I have omitted, and others I have introduced, as I had not the least intention of making this public, nor should I but for your very pressing solicitation. I would remark by way of Preface, that the success of Sermons, in point of usefulness, depends upon the operations of God the divine Spirit; and these influences are entirely sovereign. That although this Sermon was blest to you in the hearing, it may not be so to you in the reading—nevertheless, as the friends of immortal truth—you being in the possession of that love (which rejoiceth in the truth) will also rejoice in every attempt to exalt the Person of Jesus as the truth; to comfort and establish Believers in the truth, and to encourage all the heralds of truth, to be faithful unto death. I have sent forth the truth in a very plain style; to you who know her excellencies she will shine with unfading charms; while you adore the God of all grace—and I subscribe myself,

Your willing Servant in the cause of truth,
J. CHURCH.