Gospel sermons

I. The Method Of The Divine Government

" It is refreshing to read a work so distinguished for originality and soundness of thinking, especially as coming from an author of our own country." — Sir

William Hamilton.

II

TYPICAL FORMS AND SPECIAL ENDS IN CREA- TION. 8vo. #2.00.

" It is alike comprehensive in its range, accurate and minute in its details, original in its structure, and devout and spirited in its tone and tendency."/^

III

THE INTUITIONS OF THE MIND. New and improved

edition. 8vo. $2.00.

"Never was such a work so much needed as in the present day. It is the only scientific work adapted to counteract the school of Mill, Bain, and Herbert Spencer, which is so steadily prevailing among the students of the present generation." — London Quarterly Review, April, 1865.

IV

A DEFENCE OF FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH. Being an Examination of Mr. J. S. Mill's Philosophy. 8vo. $2.00.

"The spirit of these discussions is admirable. Fearless and courteous, McCosh never hesitates to bestow praise when merited, nor to attack a heresy wherever found." — Congregational Review.

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THE SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY: Biographical, Expository, Critical. 8vo. $2,00.

" President McCosh's elaborate work upon the ' Scottish Philosophy ' cannot fail to be warmly welcomed by every student of Speculative Science." — New

Englander.

DR. McCOSH'S OTHER WORKS.

LAWS OF DISCURSIVE THOUGHT. Being a Text-book of Formal Logic. i2mo. $1.50.

" I hesitate not to declare that Dr. McCosh's work is the best text-book of logic in the English language." — Dr. Ulrici, in Zeitschrift fur Philosophie (1876).

CHRISTIANITY AND POSITIVISM. A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics. i2mo.

Netu York.

GOSPEL SERMONS.

BY

JAMES McCOSH, D.D., LL.D., LITT.D.,

lEi^resttjent of Princeton College.

AUTHOR OF "METHOD OF DIVINE GOVERNMENT \ " INTUITIONS OF THE MIND INDUCTIVELY EXAMINED," ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, 530 Broadway.

Copyright, 1888, By Robert Carter and Brothers.

University Press : John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

Preface

J JITHERTO my published works have been chiefly philosophical. But all along while I was lecturing and writing on philosophy I was also preaching. I am anxious that the public should know that much as I value philosophy, I place the gospel of Jesus Christ above it.

My friends, the Carter Brothers, have asked me to give them some of my sermons for publication. Of the many discourses which I have delivered in Scotland, in Ulster, and to the students in Princeton College, I have selected those in which I have been enabled to proclaim most clearly the way of salvation.

JAMES McCOSH.

Princeton College,

September, 1888.

Contents

Sermon Page

I. The Lamb in the Midst of the Throne . 9

II. The Way, the Truth, and the Life . . 30