WOKKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. I. SEVENTEEN SERMONS. Third Edition, I vol. 12mo. cloth boards. Price 7s. II. POPULAR LECTURES on the PROPHECIES relative to the JEWISH NATION. Third Edition, 12mo. cloth. Price 4s. 6d. III. SERMONS on the SECOND ADVENT of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Fourth Edition. With an Intro duction and Notes, not in the former editions. Price 4s. 6d. IV. LETTERS to a FRIEND, on SECEDING from the CHURCH, &c. Foolscap. Price 3s. 6d. ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, DELIVERED IN LONDON, MARCH, 1840. BY THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE, M.A. MINISTER OF ST. JUDE'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY; W. GRAPEL, AND A. NEWLING, LIVERPOOL. MDCCCXL. 1188. PREFACE. THE circumstances which gave rise to the preparation and delivery of these Lectures, will be best understood by the following extract from the Seventh Report of the CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE So CIETY. "Amidst these proceedings in reference to CHURCH EXTENSION, the Christian Influence Society have not omitted a continuance of their endeavours to attain such amendments in the working of the National Church Establishment, as may bring its ministrations to bear with increased energy upon the national population. It was apprehended that measures of this nature would be greatly forwarded and commended to public favour by the course of Lectures which was announced in last year's Report, as intended to be delivered this season, by the Rev. Christopher Benson, Master of the Temple, and Prebendary of |