Hobart died in 1830, in the midst of his most productive years; his successor as Rector of Trinity Church, William Berrian, gathered up his unpublished sermons and his most important occasional pieces and issued them in three volumes in 1832 and 1833. The Posthumous Works is the standard collection, and it has not been republished since.
The full three volumes are an important historical resource, but they include a great deal of occasional and controversial material that is heavy going for the modern reader. We are publishing a reader’s edition: twenty of the strongest sermons, chosen to give a representative picture of Hobart in the pulpit. Sermons on the Incarnation, on the Atonement, on the work of the Holy Spirit, and on the Church take pride of place; the funeral sermons and the consecration sermons that show Hobart at his most ceremonial round out the volume.
The complete three-volume Posthumous Works may be republished in the future as a scholarly edition; this volume is offered first to introduce the reader to Hobart as a preacher.