AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. BEING LECTURES DELIVERED DURING LENT, 1854, AT ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY By Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England. WITH A PREFACE, BY THE REV. W. R. FREMANTLE, M.A., RECTOR OF CLAYDON, BUCKS LONDON: JOHN FARQUHAR SHAW, 27, SOUTHAMPTON ROW, RUSSELL SQUARE; AND DUBLIN: J. ROBERTSON. EDINBURGH: J. MENZIES. 1854. 100.3.272. Preface. Ir can scarcely be expected that after the delivery of Twelve Courses of Sermons upon the leading subjects of Prophecy, there could be much of novelty in the thirteenth, lately preached at Bloomsbury. If we may judge from the increased size of the congregations, and the deep attention manifested, it is evident that the subject has not been exhausted, nor has it lost its interest in the public mind. And this is the more worthy of remark, because the main features of the present course having been handled in previous years, no new field of enquiry has been opened to awaken fresh expectations, or excite curiosity. Experience has proved that there is an advantage in this circumstance. For if the earlier Lectures necessarily contained general and introductory statements, in these the reader will find fuller details and answers to some objections and difficulties which have been from time to time suggested. |