ΤΟ THE KING. SIR, THE only grounds on which I can presume to entreat Your Majesty's favourable acceptance of this Volume of Sermons are, that a great part of them was preached in Your own Royal Chapel at St. James's; and that my intention in publishing them was to serve (as far as a situation of much labour and little leisure would allow) the cause of that holy religion, to which Your Majesty has ever approved Yourself a sincere and cordial friend. An intention of this sort, however feebly executed, will, I am persuaded, be considered by Your Majesty as the best and most becoming return I can make for those spontaneous marks of Your goodness to me, which have impressed the warmest sentiments of gratitude on the mind of, SIR, YOUR MAJESTY'S Most humble and most dutiful Subject, and Servant, B. CHESTER. CONTENTS The same subject continued, and the same text. Preached at Lambeth, April 6.1777. On the advantages of an academical education. Preached before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement-Sunday, July 5.1767. A serious and devout observation of the Lord's Preached at St. James's Chapel, March 18. 1781. The doctrine of Christ crucified no just cause Preached at St. James's Chapel, March 24. 1782. 1 Cor. i. 22, 23, 24. The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stum- bling-block and unto the Greeks foolishness; but |