Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT THE FIRST EDITION. The following Discourse was prepared as a part of the weekly pastoral duties of the Author, and delivered in the midst of a very extensive Revival of Religion. Many were rejoicing in hope of the glory of God; and multitudes were inquiring what they should do to be saved. It occurred that it might he of use to bring together, in a single discourse, the leading doctrines of the Bible respecting God’s way of saving men. It was felt that the time of great religious excitement was a period peculiarly fevor- able for fixing in the minds of multitudes a permanent impression of the system of revealed truth. Such an exhibition, according to the views with which the author is accustomed to interpret the Scriptures, was attempted in this discourse. Under the inexpressible pressure on the spirit of a minister of God at such seasons, it was penned and delivered. It is now printed at the suggestion, and chiefly at the expense of a few friends, simply with the hope of giving a more fixed impression of the views then expressed. The original plan of the discourse, of necessity, precluded extensive discussion. A few references, with a few notes on the most important topics presented, are now added. The Sermon makes no pretensions to any new or original views. It is supposed to be nothing more thanis indicated by its title?an outline of the way of salvation by the Gospel. Such, it is hoped, it will be found to be. One thing has been established, in the author’s view, by the delivery of this discourse, as well as by a very frequent and full, but temperate, exhibition of the leading doctrines presented in it?that injury, is Not done in a revival by a full exhibition of God’s plan of saving men according to his sovereign will and pleasure. No doctrine during…
