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OF

SERENO EDWARDS DWIGHT, D.D.,

PASTOR OF PARK STREET CHURCH, BOSTON; AND PRESIDENT OF HAMILTON
COLLEGE, IN NEW YORK.

WITH A

MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE,

BY

WILLIAM T. DWIGHT, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE THIRD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, PORTLAND.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

47, Washington-street.

1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851,

BY WILLIAM T. DWIGHT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maine.

CD •D96

633575

INTRODUCTION.

THE Discourses, entitled, "The Death of Christ,” which extend through the first 168 pages following the Memoir, were delivered in the month of January, 1826, and were published the same year. They have been for many years entirely out of print, and as the discussion of the great question there presented has been thought very able and satisfactory, their republication in this volume, it is believed, will be welcomed by various readers.

In the selection of the Discourses which occupy the remainder of the volume, the Editor could not, of course, aim at any thing like system. Yet, if he mistakes not, a certain sequence and order will be observed. In the first Discourse, entitled, "God's constant trial of man," the hearer, or man universally, is contemplated as the subject of a probation appointed by his Creator. In the second,-" There is no Difference," the results of this probation are distinctly exhibited. In the third," Make you a new heart," man, the sinner, is required at once to return in penitence to the holy service of God.—This, which is his most reasonable service, he is immovably disinclined to do: and, therefore, in the fourth Discourse,—“ Re

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