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DISCOURSE OF MATTERS

PERTAINING TO

RELIGION.

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MINISTER OF THE SECOND CHURCH IN ROXBURY, MASS.

"If an offence come out of the Truth, better is it that the offence come, than
the Truth be concealed."- JEROME.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN, BROTHERS, 121, NEWGATE STREET.

M. DCCC. XLVI.

278500

(3.8125 73

THE PREFACE.

THE following pages contain the substance of a series of five Lectures delivered in Boston, during the last autumn, at the request of several gentlemen. In preparing the work for the press, I have enlarged on many subjects, which could be but slightly touched in a brief lecture. It was with much diffidence that I then gave my opinions to the public in that form; but considering the state of theological learning amongst us, and the frequent abuse of the name of Religion, I can no longer withhold my humble mite.

It is the design of this work to recall men from the transient shows of time, to the permanent substance of Religion; from a worship of Creeds and empty Belief, to a worship in Spirit and in Life. If it satisfy the doubting soul, and help the serious inquirer to true views of God, man, the relation between them, and the duties which come of that relation; if it make Religion appear more congenial and attractive, and a divine life more beautiful and sweet than heretofore

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