The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last past. Every serious man who peruses these, will therefore see, in the clearest manner, what these doctrines are which I embrace and teach as the essentials of true religion. But I am throughly sensible, these are not proposed in such a manner as some may expect.
Nothing here appears in an elaborate, elegant, or oratorical dress.
If it had been my desire or design to write thus, my leisure would not permit. I mention this, that curious readers may spare themselves the labour of seeking for what they will not find. Nay, my design is, in some sense, to forget all that ever I have read in my life. To candid, reasonable men, I am not afraid to lay open what have been the inmost thoughts of my heart. I have thought, I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air.