OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH. TWELVE LECTURES. BY JAMES AUGUSTUS HESSEY, D.C.L. HEAD MASTER OF MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL; PREACHER TO THE HON. SOC. OF GRAY'S INN; PREBENDARY OF ST. PAUL'S. London: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE; HIGH STREET, TRINITY STREET, PREFACE. THE following Lectures were delivered in Lent, and with the design which is fully explained at the commencement of the first of the series. Originally they formed two courses, the former of which was printed some time ago at the request of many who heard the Lectures, for private perusal only. But the writer has since received several intimations from those into whose hands they fell, that the "Biographies of the Kings of Judah" supplied a want which had been often experienced of a book appropriate for Sunday reading, and that it was likely to be useful in other This circumstance has induced him to ways. |