SERMONS

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY THE LATE

REV. WM. WARDE FOWLER, M.A.,

LATE CURATE OF DARLEY ABBEY,

IN THE COUNTY OF DERBY. BI

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY:

WM. BEMROSE, DERBY:

MDCCCXLIV.

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WILLIAM EVANS, OF ALLESTREE HALL, Esq., M.P.,

AND

SAMUEL EVANS, OF DARLEY ABBEY, Esq.,

THIS VOLUME OF SERMONS

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THEIR OBLIGED AND

FAITHFUL HUMBLE SERVANT,

ELIZABETH FOWLER,

THE EDITOR.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Editor of the following Discourses is very sensible that some apology may be required for obtruding on the public a Volume of Sermons from the pen of a Clergyman so little known, beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance, as the individual whose name they bear. If the value, however, of a Christian Minister's labours is to be estimated, rather by their intrinsic excellence than by either the period of their duration or the extent of the sphere he occupied, this little Volume will not, it is hoped, prove an unacceptable addition to the numerous Publications, of a similar kind, daily issuing from the Press.

The writer was, in truth, a person of no ordinary talents; and was well qualified for the sacred office by sound learning and an intimate acquaintance with the Sacred Scriptures, which were his constant study. He was a laborious Pastor, and a diligent writer of Sermons; of which he left behind him a much larger number