By Andrew A. Bonar.
The Works of Robert Murray M’ Cheyne, Sermons.
Volume II
By Andrew A. Bonar.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne (21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843. He was born at Edinburgh on 21 May 1813, was educated at the university and at the Divinity Hall of his native city, and was assistant at Larbert and Dunipace. A mission of inquiry among the Jews throughout Europe and in Palestine, and a religious revival at his church in Dundee, made him feel that he was being called to evangelistic rather than to pastoral work, but before he could carry out his plans he died, on 25 March 1843. McCheyne, though wielding remarkable influence in his lifetime, was still more powerful afterwards, through his Memoirs and Remains, edited by Andrew Bonar, which ran into far over a hundred English editions. Some of his hymns became well known and his Bible reading plan is still in common use
PREFACE OF THIS BOOK
THE very favourable reception which the Christian public has given to the “Memoir and Remains” of the author, by the Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, has induced the Editor of this Volume, with the sanction and approbation of a clerical friend of great eminence and piety, intimately acquainted with the author and his writings, and by whom the greater part of the work has been revised, to publish these Additional Remains, consisting of a selection from the various Sermons and Lectures delivered by Mr. M’Cheyne in the course of his ministry. Like those annexed to Mr. Bonar’s Memoir, they are printed from the author’s MS. notes, written as preparations for the pulpit, but not intended for publication, or revised by him with that view.
This volume contains specimens of Discourses delivered in all the years of the author’s ministry; and the places and dates of delivery are given at the close of each Discourse, wherever they have been marked. The demand for their publication by members of his flock and other friends, many of whom own him as their spiritual father, has been loud and urgent. To all such the book will be acceptable, as helping “to stir up their pure minds by way of remembrance; ” and, notwithstanding many imperfections, which, in the circumstances of its publication, have been unavoidable, the Editor hopes that, by the blessing of God, it may be useful to others also into whose hands it may fall.
EDINBURGH, November, 1846.
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