"I am not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST, for it is ROM. i. 16. 2 Cor. iv. 13. "I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. " LONDON: Printed at the Conference-Office, North-Green, Finsbury-Square, City-Road and at the Methodist Preaching-Houfes PREFACE. HE following Difcourfes, delivered on dif THE ferent occafions, and written after their delivery, with fuch alterations and enlargements as were requifite, and published at the request of many who heard them, have all been for fome years before the public. Some of them, as those on the Second Coming of Chrift and the Future Mifery of the Wicked, and on Sanctification, have gone thro' fundry Editions, and many thousands of them have been circulated in different parts of this Kingdom, efpecially among the Members of the Methodist Societies and Congregations. And if I may give credit to the information I have received, the divine Bleffing has attended the reading of them to many individuals, and moft of thofe into whofe hands they have fallen, have fignified their approbation of them. They are therefore here collected into one Volume, at the requeft of our laft Conference, with a view to their prefervation when their Author is no more. Thus, not only my Friends, and those that have been profited by my Ministry, may have a memorial of me when I am removed out of their fight; but, what may be of much more moment, when dead I may thus Speak to those of them that fhall furvive me; and perhaps also to many others that never knew my face in the flesh, but into whofe hands this Book may fall. |