BX 723 Da v.a DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, $s. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 22d day of March, in the fifty- second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Timothy Dwight, and WILLIAM T. Dwight, of said District, two volumes." CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. PRINTED BY HEZEKIAH HOWE-NEW HAVEN. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. pages A just sense of the Character and Presence of God, a source of Repentance.-Job xlii. 5, 6. The Young exhorted to Sobriety of Mind.-Titus ii. 6. The Danger of losing Convictions of Conscience.--Matt. xii. The Folly of trusting our own hearts. Prov. xxviii, 26. SERMONS V. VI. The Prodigal Son.—Luke xv. 11–17. Those who believe not the Scriptures, would not be persua- ded, though one rose from the dead.--Luke xvi. 31. .. 97 SERMONS IX. X. The Danger of frequenting Evil Company.--Prov. xiii.gr 131 The duty of remembering the Creator in Youth.--Eccles. xii. 1. The Youth of Nain.-Luke vii. 11-15. Considerations in Adversity.--Eccles. vii. 14. Sermon on the Old Year, Dec. 1805.—Psalm xc.. 9. 228 . Sermon for the New Year, Jan. 1809.—Luke xiii. 6--9. 258 Long Life not desirable.-Job vii. 16. The Rich Man and Lazarus.- Luke xvi. 26. The Coming of Christ.--Luke xii. 40. The Final Interview.--Eccles. xii. 7. . SERMONS XXIII, XXIV. Considerations on the Final Trial.- Eccles. xii. 14. SERMONS XXV. XXVI. The Disappointments, which will take place at the Day of The Harvest Past.--Jer. viii. 20. Considerations on the Character of Noah.--2 Peter ii. 5. 418 Duty of preaching the Gospel.-Gal. i. 8, 9. The Dignity and Excellence of the Gospel.—1 Peter ii. 12. Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. William Lock- wood, at Milford, in 1785; and at that of the Rev. Nathan- iel W. Taylor, at New Haven, in 1812. The Preaching of Paul before Felix.--Acts xxiv. 25. Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Samuel Merwin, at New 479 The Purity of the Ministerial Character.--Matt. v. 13. Preach- ed at the Ordination of the Rev. Moses Stuart, at New 505 SERMON I. A JUST SENSE OF THE CHARACTER AND PRESENCE OF GOD A SOURCE OF REPENTANCE. I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Job, as every person who reads his Bible knows, was an eminently righteous man. God himself testifies, that there was none like him in the earth ; that he was perfect and upright; that he feared God, and eschewed evil. Still he was afflicted beyond most other men. He lost his property, and his children. He was distressed with a most painful and loathsome disease. His wife treated him with the bitterest unkindness; and his friends put a finishing hand to his sufferings by insisting that they were all exhibitions of the anger of God against him, on account of his peculiar guilt. Job vindicated his character against these charges with firmness and zeal. In the progress of the debate both parties evidently passed the bounds of moderation. While his friends attributed to him crimes which he had not committed, and guilt which he had not incurred; Job strenuously challenged, in terms too unqualified, an innocence and a purity, to which his claims were certainly imperfect. When their dispute was ended, Elihu, a young man, who had been a witness of their zeal, censured them all for their heat, for the intemperance of their sentiments, the unreasonable imputations of the one party, and the unwarranted self-justification of the other. At the same time he vindicated, in a becoming manner, the justice of the Divine dispensations towards Job; exhibVOL. II. 2 |
