SPECIMENS OF PREACHING

Originally published in 1801, these sermons were published, as Specimens of Robert Hawker’s method of preaching. The reader will discover, that while insisting upon the great and leading points of the Gospel; the principal aim in every discourse is to keep in view, the necessity of the Spirit’s work in the heart. Hawker confesses his fears, that even among faithful preachers of the word who delight in the love of God the Father in redemption, and the glories of the Lord Jesus Christ in his mediatorial character; there is not so much attention shown, in inculcating the necessity of the operations of the Holy Spirit. “Yet surely, too much can never be said concerning his person and offices.” The Spirit’s peculiar office is to take of the things of Jesus and to shew unto his people.