Salvation by Christ, a series of discourses on some of the most important doctrines of the Gospel

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i LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, #

^UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.*

GOULD AND LINCOLN,

Preface

Shortly after the appearance of the "University Sermons," the publishers desired that the title should be changed, inasmuch as the work was addressed no more to students in college than to inquirers after religious truth in general. I then declined to make any alteration. Of late, however, they proposed that I should modify the volume, in order the better to adapt it to the present state of religious feeling in many parts of our country. I saw that by the course which they suggested, the volume might be rendered more unique, and perhaps more useful. I have, therefore, omitted two discourses on the " Revolutions in Europe," and added six never before published, on subjects of greater practical importance.

IV PREFACE.

The volume thus revised and greatly enlarged, appears under a title which the publishers consider appropriate. In this form it is now presented to all who feel the need of salvation by Christ, no less than to those whom it has been my pleasure, in former years, to instruct.

F. W.

Providence, December 16, 1858.

Contents

SERMON I.

THEORETICAL ATHEISM.

" The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." — Psalm liii. 1 1

Part I

" For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." — Romans iii. 23. — " I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you." — John v. 42. 31

SERMON IV.

THE MORAL CHARACTER OF MAN. LOVE TO GOD.