further prosecution of the plan. Several gentlemen, on whose aid and encouragement we were authorized particularly to depend, have been hindered by ill health or an uncommon press of parocial duty, from preparing their manuscripts in season. To remedy this evil, we have in a few instances inserted some of their sermons possessing uncommon merit, which had been before published only in pamphlets, and therefore not generally read. This volume is aided by the talents of but a small proportion of the great number of Clergymen of eminence in the United States. Should gentlemen of talents in the ministry see fit generally, to aid hereafter in the undertaking, we hope to gratify the public with a succession of American sermons, and to make our readers acquainted with a larger circle of preachers of distinguished eminence. The discourses in this volume, the Editor thinks, are calculated to be useful, and will be received by all lovers. of gospel truth, as a very valuable acquisition. He acknowledges himself under great obligations to an able, and pious gentleman in the ministry, who has rendered him aid, and earnestly hopes, that he may find his reward in the good this volume may effect in the hands of that God who works by the instrumentality of means. That it may be read with candor, and be useful to the world, is the sincere wish of the Editor NATHAN ELLIOT. CATSKILL, July, 30, 1808.. CONTENTS On the incomparable excellency of religion as the By SAMUEL AUSTIN, D. D. Pastor of a Congre- gational church, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The ground of the Believers triumph in the Cross By DAVID TAPPAN, D. D. Late professor of di- vinity in Harvard College, Cambridge. "Be watchful and strengthen the things which re- main, that are ready to die."....Rev. iii. 2. By MOSES HEMMENWAY, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Wells, District of Main. Haggai i. 4, 5....." Then came the word of the Lord to Haggai, the Prophet, saying, is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie SERMONS VII. & VIII. Gods treating every man agreeable to his moral char- acter, shown to be consistent, with his blessing the the seed of the righteous, and cursing the seed of BY SETH WILLISTON, Pastor of a Congregation- al Church, in Lisle, state of New-York. Ezekiel xviii. 20....." The soul that sinneth it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; SERMONS IX. & X: On the nature and power of truth. By TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D. D. President of Yale Proverbs xxii. 17....." A man that doeth violence to By JOHN M. MASON, D. D. Pastor of the Asso- ciate-Reformed Church, in the city of New-York. Importance of professing and practising religion. By DAVID OSGOOD, D. D. Pastor of a Church ERRATA. Page. 43. 3 line from bottom, read teftimony for telmony. 101.. in the text, for Haggai 3. 5. read i. 4, 5. 16 line from top read deified in place of defied. |