SERMONS, ON VARIOUS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE. BY NATHANAEL EMMONS, D.D. BOSTON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL T, ARMSTRONG, AND SOLD AT 1812. * DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS--To wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-first day of September, in the thirty-seventh year of the independence of the U. States of America, SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "SERMONS, on various important subjects of Christian Doctrine and Practice. By NATHANAEL EMMONS, D. D." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act intitled, "An act supplementary to an act, intitled an act for the Encouragement of Learning by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints." WILLIAM S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS. Human and divine agency inseparably connected. GEN. xlv, 5. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with Page. The Scripture account of the Devil ought to be believed. 1 PET. v, 8. Be sober, be vigilant: because your adversary The exhibition of Christ tries the human heart. LUKE ii, 34, 35. And Simeon blessed them, aud said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign that shall be spoken against; (yea, a sword shall pierce through thy |