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SERIES

LECTURE SERMONS,

DELIVERED AT THE

SECOND UNIVERSALIST MEETING,

IN BOSTON.

BY HOSEA BALLOU, PASTOR.

"Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life,
and they are they which testify of me."-JESUS CHRIST,

"Let us go on to perfection."-ST. PAul.

BOSTON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HENRY BOWEN,

DEVONSHIRE-STREET.

1818.

9943
'B3

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District of Massachusetts, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

BE it remembered, that on the thirty-first day of August, A. D. Eighteen hundred and eighteen, in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, HENRY BOWEN, of the said District hath deposited in this Office the Title of a book the Right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"A Series of Lecture Sermons, delivered at the Second Universalist Meeting, in Boston, by HOSEA BALLOU, Pastor.

"Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they, are they, which testify of me. "-JESUS CHRIST.

"Let us go on to perfection."-ST. PAUL.

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "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 entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act entitled 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."

JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of
Massachusetts.

SERMON.

1. TIMOTHY, i. 15.

“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am Chief."

THE subject on which the Apostle was speaking, and which led him to make the important declaration contained in our text, is worthy of special notice. Under a deep sense of the goodness of God, the grace which he had received in the Lord Jesus, the distinguished and important station in which he was placed by the great Captain of our salvation, it was impossible for him not to take a most humiliating retrospective view of his past life in the Jews' religion, while an enemy to Jesus, a blasphemer, and a persecutor of the church. All these weighty considerations having their natural operations on his mind, seemed to present, in full view, before his mental vision, the great and glorious errand on which the Lord Jesus was sent into our world. If it could have been so, that the Apostle, while engaged in the ministry of Jesus, could have retained his former confidence in his own righteousness, and had been of the opinion, that he was a favorite of heaven, that he was enlightened into the knowledge of the gospel, and even put into the ministry because his former conduct had merited these favors, it is evident that such views could never have led him to make the statement found in our text. Confirmed in such a persuasion, he would bave preached a Saviour for the righteous, yea, for

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