ON

ST. PAUL'S EPISTLES

TO THE

CORINTHIANS:

DELIVERED AT TRINITY CHAPEL, BRIGHTON

BY THE LATE

REV. F. W ROBERTSON, M.A.,

THE INCUMBENT.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

И DCCC LXVIII.

TO

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.

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 exposition all the topics contained therein.

On this plan he commenced with the First and Second Books of Samuel. In the exposition of these Books 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 people, and for the men and women who sat before him. Thus it occurred that topics of national policy, so far as bearing on individuals, questions of social lifeof morals, as they are connected with every-day life, arose naturally, and were treated with unshrinking faithfulness. The period (1848) was one of great political and social excitement, and these Lectures may