The Sermon on the Mount

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Excerpt from The Sermon on the Mount: Lectures DeliveredGlasgow, under whose jurisdiction I am placed, and in this way obtained, at least, a local importance, apart altogether from its intrinsic merits. Portions of it, sentences selected here and there, - were read in that Court, and appeared in the public press, and these, as it seemed to me, were fitted, however little intended, to produce a wrong impression as to the general character of my teaching. In justice to myself, therefore, I have thought it best to publish the entire series. In justice also to the Church, this appears to be the right course, for it is only fair that she should be put in possession of the whole matter on which her Courts have still to decide. Hence these discourses are not printed because the author considers them specially {worthy of such permanent form. They have no claim to critical nicety, or exegetical learning, or even to any peculiar novelty of thought or illustration. They are simply ordinary congregational lectures which have had the misfortune to be denounced as containing heretical doctrine, and they are now published because neither should the accused be condemned, nor should the judge pronounce sentence, on isolated fragments of what ought to be re garded as one indivisible whole. I deprecate no severity of criticism, then, whether ecclesiastical or literary, but I make this statement, that the critic may have the whole case before him when he applies himself to his task.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.