SERMONS;

BY THE

REV. JOHN EDMUND JONES, M A.

LONDON

I BOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY-STREET, STRAND. ADAPTED FOR FAMILY READING.

BY THE

REV. JOHN EDMUND JONES, M.A.

OP ST. EDMUND'S HALL, OXFORD;
LATE CURATE OF ST. NICHOLAS, AND LECTURER AT

ST. JOHN'S, GLOUCESTER.

“ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ;
that whether I come to see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your
affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together
for the faith of the Gospel.”—Philipp. i. 27.

SECOND EDITION.

REVISED AND ENLARGED.

LONDON:
J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY;

1828.

PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

The following Sermons were written with no further view than for delivery from the pulpit, nor do they pretend to any thing beyond plain parochial addresses of a very humble order. The considerations which induced the writer to offer them to his friends and the public in their present form, were these :-he had been laid aside by indisposition from the duties of a populous parish, and separated unexpectedly