A SERIES OF MEDITATIONS. BY JAMES BUCHANAN, D.D. "This is my comfort in mine affliction: for thy Word hath quickened me.' EIGHTEENTH THOUSAND. EDINBURGH: JOHNSTONE & HUNTER, 15 PRINCES STREET; AND 26 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. M.DCCC.LJ. ADVERTISEMENT. THE substance of the following MEDITATIONS was delivered in the Parish Church of North Leith, during the autumn of 1832. The two first Meditations relate to the simplest elements of religious truth, and are designed to be introductory to the more peculiar doctrines of the Christian faith which are subsequently explained. The reader is requested to consider them in this connection. The Author might assign the request of many friends as a reason for publication; but he feels that a Christian Minister gives a sufficient reason, if, with somewhat of the same spirit, he can say with the Apostle" I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth; yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance: knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance." |