THE GOSPEL COTTAGE LECTURER. ADDRESSED TO THE SPIRITUALLY POOR. BY GEORGE D. DOUDNEY, INCUMBENT OF CHARLES' CHAPEL, PLYMOUTH; AUTHOR OF "CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL." FIRST SERIES, IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: W. H. COLLINGRIDGE, CITY PRESS, 1, LONG LANE. PLYMOUTH: W. BRENDON. 1855. 100.2.138. 100.3. PREFACE. Ir the following pages realize the object which has been kept in view during their publication, it will be of little moment what critics of any class may say respecting them. And that in many instances that object has been realized, the testimonies already received abundantly prove; for which the Author desires to record his unfeigned gratitude and praise to the Holy Comforter-the divine Minister in the one church-by whose unction and power alone, the flowings of the doctrine of Christ become spirit and life, from the pen of any man-much more so from that of one, who can make no pretensions beyond this:-that he does not handle the word of God deceitfully, but what he desires to convey by that which he writes, is honestly believed to be in accordance with the mind of the Spirit, and coinciding with "the simplicity that is in Christ," as manifested in the daily experience of His living members. The Lectures are addressed to the spiritual living children of God:-none but such, will understand them. The Person of Christ, in His preciousness, and the perfection of His suitability to a needy, broken-hearted sinner, forms the one grand subject of the whole. But the object kept in view has been the development of the Spirit's work, and testimony of Jesus, by His ministry in the heart of the child of God; by which Christ is formed in the heart, the hope of glory. As distinguished from a notional or intellectual profession, resting for its base, either on doctrine on the one hand, |