SERMONS, DELIVERED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS. BY LYMAN BEECHER, D. D. BOSTON: JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO: JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON. 1852. BRARY THU ANICAL 4757908 882 Beecher Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by LYMAN BEECHER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY, BOSTON. 4142 14 CONTENTS. THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD DESIRABLE. Delivered at Newark, N. J., October, 1808, during the session of the Page Delivered before the Presbytery of Long Island, at the opening of 33 Delivered at New Haven, Conn., on the evening of October 27, 1812, .75 Delivered at Wolcott, Conn., September 21, 1814, at the Installation of the Rev. John Keyes to the pastoral care of the Church in that Delivered in Park-street Church, Boston, September 3, 1817, at the Ordination of Mr. Sereno Edwards Dwight as Pastor of that Church; and of Messrs. Elisha P. Swift, Allen Graves, John Nich- ols, Levi Parsons, and Daniel Buttrick, as Missionaries to the |