ON IMPORTANT DOCTRINAL SUBJECTS. BY HOSEA BALLOU, TO WHICH ARE ADDED CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. TOGETHER WITH A brief Memoir of the Author, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. BOSTON: Printed and published at the Trumpet Office-G.W. Bazin, print. 1832. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 11856 440, 12 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, BY THOMAS WHITTEMORE, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of Massachusetts. PREFACE. The discourses contained in this volume, were delivered in the city of Philadelphia, during the two last weeks in Dec. 1821 and the first week in January 1822. Rev. Hosea Ballou, their author, had been invited to that city by the Universalist Society there, and during his short stay, the number of his hearers increased, so that at the last service it was supposed there was not far from seven thousand people. The sermons were taken down by a stenographer at the time of delivery. The author had not the opportunity of revising and correcting the sheets before they went to press, otherwise some of his arguments might have been more full, and in the language in many cases different. The stenographer, however, flattered himself that he had presented the discourses" totidem verbis;" but in this doubtless he was too sanguine. The first editions of these sermons was published by Mr. Edwin T. Scott, in the year 1822. The style in which they were written exceedingly bad. |