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AN

ESSAY

TOWARDS AN UNFOLDING THE

GLORY OF CHRIST,

IN HIS

PERSON, LOVE, AND SALVATION,

IN SEVERAL

SERMONS,

BY

SAMUEL EYLES PIERCE.

WITH A

RECOMMENDATORY PREFACE,

By the Rev. ROBERT HAWKER, D. D.
VICAR of CHARLES, PLYMOUTH.

I will speak of the glorious Honour of thy Majefty, and of thy
wondrous Works. PSAL. CXLV. 5.

VOL. I.

OTHE

London:

PRINTED BY S. COUCHMAN, THROGMORTON-STREET;

AND SOLD BY

MRS. COLLINS, EXCHANGE-ALLEY, CORNHILL;
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141 i 343

PREFAC E.

great

THE work of God the HOLY GHOST,

in the miniftry of his facred word, and in his gracious influences fhed abroad on the minds of his people, is to exalt the Son of GOD: JESUS himself so marked his character; when speaking of him, he said, He shall glorify.

me.

Hence it will undeniably follow, that the great object of the gospel ministry fhould be directed to the promotion of the fame bleffed purpose. And the higheft teftimony of any man's being called and fent forth by the HOLY GHOST, to minifter in the church of JESUS, is, when that man makes CHRIST, the Alpha and Omega of all his ministerial labours.

In this view, Mr. PIERCE's writings appear to me eminently diftinguished: the leading tendency of the whole being directed to fet forth the LORD JESUS, in his effential, perfonal, relative, and mediatorial glories.

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