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O LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO AT THY FIRST COMING DIDST SEND THY MESSENGER TO PREPARE THY WAY BEFORE THEE; GRANT THAT THE MINISTERS AND STEWARDS OF THY MYSTERIES MAY LIKEWISE SO PREPARE AND MAKE READY THY WAY, BY TURNING THE HEARTS OF THE DISOBEDIENT TO THE WISDOM OF THE JUST, THAT, AT THY SECOND COMING, TO JUDGE THE WORLD, WE MAY BE FOUND AN ACCEPTABLE PEOPLE IN THY SIGHT, WHO LIVEST AND

REIGNEST WITH THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, EVER ONE GOD, WORLD WITHOUT END. AMEN.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by J. P. K.. HENSHAW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland.

Jos: Robinson, Printer.

THE following Lectures, delivered in the ordinary

course of parochial instructions, are now published to gratify the earnest desire of many who heard them, and in compliance with the recommendation of some valued clerical friends, whose advice was solicited.

The views herein advocated are the same which were maintained by many of the earliest Fathers, and by some of the Reformers, and which have found powerful support in the writings of the learned and pious Mede in the 17th century, and in those of Bickersteth, McNeile, Melvill, Dodsworth, Noel, and other distinguished divines of the Church of England in our own day. The object of the Author will be gained, if this humble inquiry shall have any influence in directing the attention of his clerical brethren to an important, but, it is to be feared, too much neglected branch of Biblical investigation, or in awakening the minds of Christian people to a livelier faith in, and a more diligent preparation for, the coming and kingdom of our Lord.

Baltimore, March 2d, 1842.