Transcribed from the 1831 C. J. G. and F. Rivington edition byDavid Price,

PLAIN
PAROCHIAL SERMONS,

PREACHEDIN

THE PARISH CHURCH OFBOLTON-LE-MOORS,

BYTHE
REV. JAMES SLADE, M.A.,

VICAR OFBOLTON, AND PREBENDARY OF CHESTER.

London:
C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, ST.PAUL’S CHURCH YARD.

1831.

p. iiBOLTON:
PRINTED BY J. GARDNER.

p. iiiTO THE CONGREGATION
OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF BOLTON,
THESE SERMONS
ARE INSCRIBED AND DEDICATED,
WITH AFFECTIONATE REGARD,
BY THEIR PASTOR AND FRIEND,

J. S.

p.vADVERTISEMENT.

The author has been repeatedlyurged to print a volume of his Parochial Sermons; and perhaps heowes some apology to those friends, whose kind advice, on thishead, has been for years neglected.  He was apprehensive,that the interest, excited by his discourses from the pulpit,would not be adequately revived by their appearance in print; orat most, that they would be impressive only upon those who hadheard them: p.viand he moreover thought, that the christian world wasalready provided with more than a sufficiency of suchpublications.  However, whether these opinions be wellfounded or not, he has been at length prevailed upon to defer tothe wishes and judgment of others.

It is almost needless to observe, that the Sermons werewritten without any, the most distant, view to publication; theypretend to nothing, but the simple and earnest inculcation ofchristian principle and practice; and as this is theauthor’s sole object, so does he pour forth his humbleprayer, that what, by God’s help, he has planted andwatered, may, by God’s blessing, be increased to the gloryof His own great name, and the edification of His Church.

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