Excerpt from A Practical Exposition of the Gospel According to St. Matthew: In the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion The present volume, and those Which follow, have been prepared With the object of supplying this defi ciency. I shall be happy if they tend to promote, generally, a more uniform attention and a closer application to the Scriptures themselves, in every department of Christian instruction, public as well as private: because I am convinced that this is What individuals most need, and congregations Would most profit by. But certainly the purpose kept mainly in view, both in the design and composition of the work, is to increase the usefulness of family devotion by facilitating the practice of family instruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.