OF

WILLIAM SMITH, D. D.

LATE PROVOST

OT

THE COLLEGE AND ACADEMY

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PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. II.

ENTERED ACCORDING TO LAW.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY HUGH MAXWELL AND WILLIAM FRY,

NO. 25, NORTH SECOND-STREET.

1803.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

PRINTED BY H. MAXWELL, AND SOLD BY WILLIAM FRY,

No. 25, NORTH SECOND-STREET.

1803.

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SECOND VOLUME

TWO PREFATORY LETTERS.

PAGL

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Letter I. On the Office and Duty of Protestant

Ministers, and the Right of exercising Pulpit-

Liberty in the handling of Civil as well as Reli-

gious subjects; especially in times of public

danger and calamity,

Letter II. An earnest Address to the Colonies,

at the opening of the Campaign, 1758.-Drawn

up and published at the request of Brigadier-

General Forbes,

THREE MASONIC SERMONS.

Sermon I. On Brotherly Love, &c. Preached on

the Anniversary of St. John the Baptist, June

24, 1755,

Sermon II. Preached on Monday, December 28,

1778, celebrated as the Anniversary of St. John

the Evangelist. With an Appendix on the Cha-

racter of Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus,

Sermon III, Preached before the Grand Lodge

of Communication, on St. John the Baptist's

day, June 24, 1795,

N. B. T'he above three Sermons were preached at

the request of the GRAND LODGE of Communi. .
cation, for Pennsylvania, and contains in sub.
stance all that the Author thinks it necessary
to bequeath to the Brotherhood, by way of Ser-
mons, preached at different times and in sundry
of the neighbouring States, during 48 Years past,

THREE FAST SERMONS.
Sermon IV. Preached May 21, 1756, on the Pub-

lic Fast, appointed by the Government of Penn-

sylvania,

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