SERMONS BY THE REV. THOMAS GISBORNE, M. A. LONDON: PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, PRINTERS-STREET, FOR T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES IN THE STRAND. 1802. THE to confer on a former publication of mine (a), by causing a very large portion of it to be edited in the Welch language; and the manner in which you were so good as to apply to me, at that time personally a stranger to your Lordship, for my affent to the plan, and to speak of those parts of the book, the tranflation of which was not required by your immediate purpose; have rendered it my duty to embrace any opportunity which might occur of publicly teftifying my gratitude. (a) A Familiar Survey of the Chriftian Religion, &c. I avail myself of the prefent occafion with cordial pleasure. Allow me to fay that, independently of all private confiderations, the proof which your Lordship's conduct afforded of vigilant folicitude to adopt any measure which, in your opinion, should seem likely to be fubfervient to the eternal interefts of the inhabitants of the diocese configned to your fuperintendence, excited in my mind very lively emotions of fatisfaction. May the grace of God attend and profper your pious exertions! It may be right to add fome few words respecting the Volume now inscribed to your Lordship. Different writers of Sermons, all aiming at the fame ultimate object, purfue it, according to their refpective views, judgements, habits of ftudy, and other circumftances, in different ways. The vineyard of God will employ and remunerate labourers of various defcriptions. My prefent efforts, as an humble workman in that vineyard, have been principally directed to two points: |