B HARVARD Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by JAMES MUNROE & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE PRESS: METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND COLLECTION OF SERMONS. THE wish has been often expressed by the friends of Mr. Buckminster, particularly by those to whom his sermons were first addressed, that a further selection from them might be printed. The volume already published contains many of his most valued sermons, and the friends, by whom the choice was made, faithfully discharged their duty to the reputation of Mr. Buckminster, while subjecting it to the severe test of a posthumous publication. But those, who were his hearers, are aware that many of his sermons remained unpublished, not less adapted to the ends of religious instruction than those contained in the first volume. In offering to the public a further selection, the friends of Mr. Buckminster are, therefore, confident that they shall make a highly useful addition to the stock of works adapted to promote the best influences of Christianity. Few collections of sermons have been so favorably received as the former volume; and a firm persuasion is entertained, that the additional volume, which is now presented to the Christian community, will prove in no degree less acceptable. Boston, May, 1829. CONTENTS The providence of God, as displayed in nature. Our lot in life not at our own disposal, but ordered by Page The spiritual nature of the kingdom of Christ. Misapprehensions as to the nature of religion. ROMANS XIV. 17. The kingdom of God is not meat and |