SERMONS

ON

IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.

BY DAVID BLACK,
LATE MINISTER OF LADY YESTER's, Edinburgh.

ΤΟ WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN

ACCOUNT

OF

THE LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

THE AUTHOR.

Edinburgh :-

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OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE.

SOLD BY W. LAING, OGLE & AIKMAN, A. CONSTABLE & CO. MANNERS
& MILLER, W. DI KSON, AND W. WHYTE,

ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF THE

REV. DAVID BLACK.

THE family from which MR BLACK descended, has produced several eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland, as well as many private individuals of distinguished piety.

His grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Black, was esteemed one of the most judicious, learned, and worthy ministers of the age in which he lived. He was first settled minister of Strathmiglo, in the county of Fife;