THOUGHTS

ON THE

RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

JAMES V. 17.

Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou shalt be no longer steward.

LUKE XVI. 2.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY.

1838.

ΤΟ

THE REVEREND ROBERT MEEK,

RECTOR OF RICHMOND, YORKSHIRE,

(LATE OF BRIXTON DEVERILL, WILTS,)

THIS ESSAY,

BEGUN AND PUBLISHED AT HIS REQUEST,

WITH EARNEST DESIRES FOR HIS USEFULNESS

AS A MINISTER AND A WRITER,

IS DEDICATED,

BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE,

EMMA MEEK.