SOLD BY CROCKER & BREWSTER, HILLIARD, GRAY AND COMPANY, JONATHAN LEAVITT, NEW-YORK. 1828. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS...... ......TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the twenty sixth day of March, A. D. 1828, in the fifty second Year of the Independence of the United States of America, THEOPHILUS R. MARVIN, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the Words following, to wit: Sermons delivered on various occasions, by Lyman Beecher, D. D. 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." JNO. W. DAVIS, { Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. 882 CONTENTS. Page. THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD DESIRABLE.-A Sermon delivered at Newark, N. J. October, 1808, THE REMEDY FOR DUELLING.-A Sermon delivered before the Presbytery of Long Island, at the 30 THE BUILDING OF WASTE PLACES.-A Sermon deliver- ed at Wolcott, Conn. September 21, 1814, at the THE BIBLE a CODE OF LAWS.-A Sermon delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, September 3, 1817, at the ordination of Mr. Sereno Edwards Dwight, as Pastor of that Church; and of Messrs. Eli- sha P. Swift, Allen Graves, John Nichols, Levi 138 THE DESIGN, Rights, and DutIES OF LOCAL CHURCH- ES.-A Sermon delivered at the Installation of the Rev. Elias Cornelius, as Associate Pastor of THE FAITH Once delivered to the SAINTS.-A Ser- mon delivered at Worcester, Mass. October 15, 1823, at the ordination of the Rev. Loammi RESOURCES OF THE ADVERSARY AND MEANS OF THEIR DESTRUCTION.-A Sermon preached October 12, THE MEMORY OF OUR FATHERS.-A Sermon delivered SERMON I. THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD DESIRABLE. MATTHEW, vi. 10. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. In this passage we are instructed to pray, that the world may be governed, and not abandoned to the miseries of unrestrained sin; that God himself would govern, and not another; and that God would administer the government of the world, in all respects according to his own pleasure. The passage is a formal surrender to God, of power and dominion over the earth, as entire as his dominion is in heaven. The petition, therefore, "thy will be done," contains the doctrine, THAT IT IS GREATLY TO BE DESIRED THAT GOD SHOULD GOVERN THE WORLD, AND DISPOSE OF MEN, IN ALL RESPECTS, ENTIRELY ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PLEASURE. The truth of this doctrine is so manifest, that it would seem to rank itself in the number of self-evident propositions, incapable of proof clearer than its own light, had not experience taught, that of all truths, it is the most universally and bitterly controverted. Plain as it is, it has occasioned more argument than any other doctrine, and by argument merely, has gained fewer proselytes: for, it is one of those contro |