EDINBURGH, Society-Hall, June 2. 1785.

AT a General Meeting of the Society in Scotland for propagating Chriftian Knowledge:

RESOLVED,

THAT the Thanks of the Society be given to the Reverend John Thomson, Minister of the Gospel at Markinch, for his excellent Sermon preached this day; and that he be defired to permit the fame to be printed for the ufe of the Society.

PURPOSE FOR WHICH CHRIST CAME INTO

THE WORLD:

A SERMON,

PREACHED BY THE REVEREND

BRYCE JOHNSTON, D. D. MINISTER AT HOLYWOOD;

BEFORE

THE SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND

FOR PROPAGATING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,

AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING,

IN THE HIGH CHURCH OF EDINBURGH,

ON THURSDAY, JUNE 2. 1786.

• Iam come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly

JOHN, CHAP. X. V. IO. LAST CLAUSE.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY MARTIN AND M'DOWALL,

FOR THE SOCIETY,

AND SOLD BY W. GRAY, FRONT OF THE EXCHANGE.

Anno 1786.

EDINBURGH, JUNE 1. 1786.

At a General Meeting of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Chriftian Knowledge.

RESOLVED,

THAT the Thanks of the Society be given to the Reverend Dr. Bryce Johnston, for his excellent Sermon preached this day before them, and that he may be defired to permit the fame to be printed for the benefit of the Society.