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THE SCOTTISH PULPIT.

Three volumes of this valuable work of Practical Divinity are
are now completed, and may be had of all booksellers for Bs. each
volume. Any volume may be had separate.
" The third volume of this excellent body of Practical Theology
is completed ; and its merits, we think, are even greater than those
of the volumes by which it was preceded. There is a marked im-
provement in the style of the sermons, and to account for the su-
periority is not difficult. The utility of the work is now esta-
blished, and clergymen, appreciating its merits, and knowing its
extensive circulation, select with care the sermons they wish to
appear in its pages. The Scottish Pulpit is a publication in which
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mode cheap, convenient, and elegant.—ln this age of cheap pub-
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_ seemed
to be merely the speculation of an ardent mind. The attempt,
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