5.4.1030 SERMONS PREACHED IN ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, RYDE, BY THE REV. THOMAS GRIFFITH, A. B. LATE MINISTER OF THAT CHAPEL. LONDON: T. CADELL, STRAND. 1830. PREFACE. I submit the following Sermons to the public, not without reluctance, yet with humble confidence in Him whose cause and whose religion they are intended to promote. I would not, of myself, have chosen for my sentiments the unstudied form in which they now appear; for I do not think that discourses written only for the pulpit are suitable for the press. The class of composition I conceive to be entirely different. For the pulpit there is required that commonness of topics which the exigencies of a congregation demand; that slightness of construction which permits the passing lightly over many points, and the dwelling disproportionally on others; that authority of statement which becomes the Mi |