BJ 1671

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1840, BY ABEL TOMPKINS,

in the clerk's office of the district court of Massachusetts.

PRINTED BY WILLIAM A. HALL & CO.

PREFACE.

THE following Discourses were originally preached in the Independent Christian Church, Richmond, Virginia, and were repeated in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The style in which they were delivered from the pulpit has been generally preserved, and no alteration of any importance has been made, except in the last Lecture, the matter and arrangement of which have been somewhat changed.

In publishing these Lectures, the author hardly dares to hope that he adds any thing to the valuable works on the same subject already before the public.