SERMONS; BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D. D. LL. D. LATE PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME II. NEW HAVEN : PUBLISHED BY HEZEKIAH HOWE AND DURRIE & PECK. 1828. BX 7233 v.2 ****** L. S. DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 22d day of March, in the fifty- two volumes." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. Clerk of the District of Connecticut. PRINTED BY HEZEKIAH HOWE-NEW HAVEN. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. page. Sermon for the New Year, Jan. 1807.-Jer. xxviii. 16. 114 131 155 184 200 228 243 SERMONS XXIII. XXIV. The Preaching of Paul before Felix.--Acts xxiv. 25. Preached Haven, in 1805. 479 The Purity of the Ministerial Character.-Matt. v. 13. Preach- Haven, in 1806. 505 SERMON I. A JUST SENSE OF THE CHARACTER AND PRESENCE OF GOD A SOURCE OF REPENTANCE. JOB xlii. 5, 6. I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Joв, as every person who reads his Bible knows, was an eminently righteous man. God himself testifies, that there was none like him in the earth; that he was perfect and upright; that he feared God, and eschewed evil. Still he was afflicted beyond most other men. He lost his property, and his children. He was distressed with a most painful and loathsome disease. His wife treated him with the bitterest unkindness; and his friends put a finishing hand to his sufferings by insisting that they were all exhibitions of the anger of God against him, on account of his peculiar guilt. Job vindicated his character against these charges with firmness and zeal. In the progress of the debate both parties evidently passed the bounds of moderation. While his friends attributed to him crimes which he had not committed, and guilt which he had not incurred; Job strenuously challenged, in terms too unqualified, an innocence and a purity, to which his claims were certainly imperfect. When their dispute was ended, Elihu, a young man, who had been a witness of their zeal, censured them all for their heat, for the intemperance of their sentiments, the unreasonable imputations of the one party, and the unwarranted self-justification of the other. At the same time he vindicated, in a becoming man. ner, the justice of the Divine dispensations towards Job; exhibVOL. II. 2 |