LATE ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, EDINBURGH.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

HUGH BLAIR, D. D.

A NEW EDITION, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY W. BAYNES & SON.

1826.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Sermons of the Reverend ROBERT WALKER have long and justly enjoyed a large portion of Public approbation. Those which were published in the Author's lifetime acquired a rapid reputation. The Sermons which were added after his death, though deficient perhaps in the last polish of an intended publication, did not detract from his well-earned fame; and the whole Work has steadily maintained the respect which it at first acquired.

The present Edition, in one Volume, contains all the Sermons of Mr WALKER which have appeared, either during his life or after his death-as well those which were published separately as those which were collected in volumes.

Though there were neither striking incidents, nor much variety, in the life of the Author, the following facts will not be unacceptable to his friends.

He was born in Canongate, where his father was minister, in 1716. He received a regular education at the University of Edinburgh. Happening to reside for a few months in 1737 with a clergymen in Galloway, he was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright. In 1738, in consequence of an unanimous call, he was ordained minister of Straiton, within the bounds of the Presbytery of Ayr. He always mentioned this situation with particular satisfaction, and considered the years which he spent at Straiton as among the happiest years of his life. In 1746 he was translated to the Second Charge of South Leith. He was then