THESE pages contain the substance of some Sermons on the Devotional Study of Holy Scripture, which were formerly delivered to my young congregation in the Chapel of Rugby School. My connexion with the School has long since ceased; and it would be easy to obliterate from the work all trace of the circumstances under which it was originally composed. But I prefer leaving those traces, if it were only for "Auld lang syne;" and, as the main argument has in it nothing of a local character, and is quite as much adapted to Adults as to Youth, I trust the general reader will excuse my doing so.
I wish this little Treatise to be regarded as part of a larger Work ("THOUGHTS ON PERSONAL RELIGION"), which has been more recently published, in which I have attempted to give some