A SERMON

PREACHED IN ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL, BOGNOR,

IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX,

ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH OF DECEMBER, 1829,

BEING THE SUNDAY IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FUNERAL

OF

WILLIAM ELLIS NEMBHARD, Esq.

LATE COLONEL, AND ADJUTANT GENERAL, OF THE ISLAND OF

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

By W. Mason, Chichester.

RODE!

Many instances of inaccuracy, and marks of

haste, will be found in the following pages. However unlikely it may be that they will be perused by any but my own personal friends, and the friends of the deceased, I am anxious to plead in extenuation, that the corrections and additions, which this, and every hastily written sermon must require, would have lessened its value, as a memorial of the departed, to those who solicited its publication. It is printed verbatim as it was preached, and by them, whatever may be its defects, it will on that account be read with interest.

Parsonage, Bognor,

Feb, 20th, 1830.

E. M.

A SERMON.

ISAIAH XXXViii. 1.

Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

SUCH was the solemn warning, sent down from the King of Heaven to the best and holiest prince of the royal line of Judah; conveyed by a mighty prophet of the Lord, and suspended afterwards in mercy for fifteen years. Such, also, is the stern decree, which even now the angel of Death may -be commissioned to execute upon some who are assembled here on one or two perhaps before another sabbath shall return, on all ere long. To us, however, no prophet will announce its near approach; no time may be allowed to us, as to the king of Judah, "to turn with our face to the wall. and pray unto the Lord, and weep sore;" it may "come as a thief in the night;" the "last enemy

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