Prefatory Note By The Editor
DISCOURSE XXII —"And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."—MATT. 3:17
DISCOURSE XXIII —"As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup," etc.—1 COR. 11:26
DISCOURSE XXIV —"Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus."—2 COR. 4:10
DISCOURSE XXV —"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you."—JOHN 6:53
PREFATORY NOTE
——— THE dedication and preface to these Sacramental Discourses sufficiently explain in what circumstances they were given to the world. The original publication of them was superintended by the Rev. Richard Winter, B.D., an excellent and useful minister in London, the co-pastor and successor of the Rev. Thomas Bradbury, in the Independent Church, New Court, Carey Street. An edition of them appeared in 1844, with a brief recommendatory preface by William Lindsay Alexander, D.D., of Edinburgh. We avail ourselves of an extract from it, as a just estimate of their character. Among works designed to promote the right observance of the Lord's