ON ST. PAUL'S EPISTLES TO THE CORINTHIANS: DELIVERED AT BRIGHTON. BY THE LATE REV. FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON, THE INCUMBENT OF TRINITY CHAPEL. NEW EDITION. LONDON : OR Henry S. King & Co., 65 CORNHILL. 1872. THE CONGREGATION WORSHIPPING IN TRINITY CHAPEL, BRIGHTON, FROM AUGUST 15, 1847, TO AUGUST 15, 1853, THESE EXPOSITORY LECTURES DELIVERED BY THEIR LATE PASTOR, ARE DEDICATED, PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. A FEW months after Mr. Robertson had entered on his -ministry at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, he announced his intention of taking one of the Books of Scripture as the subject of Expository Lectures for the Sunday afternoons. This form of address, he said, gave him greater freedom, both in subject and style, than that of the sermon, with its critical or historical division of some text arbitrarily taken as a prefix. He intended, therefore, to devote each Sunday morning to the sermon ; and in the afternoon to go regularly through each chapter of the Book selected, including in his exposi. tion all the topics contained therein. On this plan he commenced with the First Book of Samuel. In the exposition of this Book, many subjects came under review which would not have found a place in an ordinary sermon. He was expounding Hebrew national life, and, incidentally, the experiences of particular individuals of that nation, in all of which he discerned lessons for the English nation, and for the |