Transcribed from the 1831 C. J. G. and F. Rivington edition by David Price, ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Public domain book cover] PLAIN PAROCHIAL SERMONS, PREACHED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF BOLTON-LE-MOORS, BY THE REV. JAMES SLADE, M.A., _VICAR OF BOLTON_, _AND PREBENDARY OF CHESTER_. * * * * * LONDON: C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH YARD. 1831. * * * * * BOLTON: PRINTED BY J. GARDNER. * * * * * TO THE CONGREGATION OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF BOLTON, THESE SERMONS ARE INSCRIBED AND DEDICATED, WITH AFFECTIONATE REGARD, BY THEIR PASTOR AND FRIEND, J. S. ADVERTISEMENT. THE author has been repeatedly urged to print a volume of his Parochial Sermons; and perhaps he owes some apology to those friends, whose kind advice, on this head, has been for years neglected. He was apprehensive, that the interest, excited by his discourses from the pulpit, would not be adequately revived by their appearance in print; or at most, that they would be impressive only upon those who had heard them: and he moreover thought, that the christian world was already provided with more than a sufficiency of such publications. However, whether these opinions be well founded or not, he has been at length prevailed upon to defer to the wishes and judgment of others. It is almost needless to observe, that the Sermons were written without any, the most distant, view to publication; they pretend to nothing, but the simple and earnest inculcation of christian principle and practice; and as this is the author’s sole object, so does he pour forth his humble prayer, that what, by God’s help, he has planted and watered, may, by God’s blessing, be increased to the glory of His own great name, and the edification of His Church. CONTENTS. SERMON I. AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPEST AND ARISE FROM THE DEAD. EPHESIANS v. 14.—Wherefore He saith, Page 1 Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. [Preached January 10th, 1830, 1st Epiph., {vii} and at Chester Cathedral, August 1st, in the same year.] SERMON II. THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST. EPHESIANS iii. 8.—The unsearchable riches of Christ. 20