GROWING AND DEVOTED

CHRISTIAN.

TWO SERMONS,

PREACHED IN

THE PARISH CHURCH OF HIGH WYCOMBE,

On the First Sunday in Lent, 1849,

IN BEHALF OF THE CURATES AID SOCIETY,

BY

F. B. ASHLEY,

VICAR OF WOOBURN.

PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.

JOHN HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY, LONDON. BUTLER AND CO., HIGH WYCOMBE.

LTICE 20%, ur 1±8. per nunared.*

(These subjects were treated on at Wooburn Church on the previous Sunday—the latter Sermon with reference to the New School House, which it is proposed to build. The writer has with dif ficulty been brought to commit them to the press, but trusts, under God, (as many kindly think,) they will be useful. The first Sermon was preached the same Evening at Loudwater Chapel, and the following one subsequently. Any profits from the impression, will be given towards the building of the New School Rooms, Wooburn.)

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JOSIAH FLETCHER, UPPER HAYMARKET, NORWICH.

SERMON I.

"SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, Exodus xiv. 15.

THAT THEY GO FORWARD."

The journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan is abundantly instructive to the Children of God, whether we consider their enemies, difficulties, and trials ;-their sins, murmurings, and punishments;-or the exhortation, deliverance, and support, with which the God of all grace favored them. In the passage I have read we have a command, which we may well take each of us to ourselves, "Speak unto the Children of Israel, that they go forward." O may God the Holy Spirit apply it to our hearts, and enable us to act upon it!