SERMONS, ON VARIOUS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE. BY NATHANAEL EMMONS, D.D. BOSTON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL 1, 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 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 Christ will reject mercenary followers. JOHN vi, 26. Jesus answered them, and said, Ye seek me, It is the duty of sinners to make them a new heart. The treasures of a good and evil heart. MATT. xii, 35. A good man out of the good treasure of the The forgiveness of sins only for Christ's sake. ACTS xiii, 38. Be it known unto you therefore, men and The necessity of zeal in maintaining divine institutions. Selfishness the essence of depravity. 216 236 LUKE vi, 32. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. 258 On the nature and necessity of humility. Great men the servants of God. Preached on the occasion of the death of General Washington, Jan. 30, 1800. ISAIAH xlv, 4, 5. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. |