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SERIES

OF

LECTURE SERMONS,

DELIVERED AT THE

SECOND UNIVERSALIST MEETING,

IN BOSTON.

BY HOSEA BALLOU, PASTOR.

THIRD ED. STEREOTYPE D.

ROVJSED BY THE AUTHOR.

Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are ther
which testify of me." - Jesus Christ.
"Let us go on to perfection."-St. Paul.

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CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

The Objects of Salvation: and its nature.

1 Timothy, 1. 15.-" This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all

acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;

of whom I am chief.”

LECTURE II.

The Divine Character the source of all the grace

manifested in the gospel: And the standard for our imi-

tation.

Matthew, v. 84. Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father

which is in heaven is perfect."

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LECTURE III.

The Law, consistent with the Promises.

Galatians, iii. 21.-" Is the law then against the promises of

God? God forbid.”

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LECTURE IV.

Love, the centre of all the Divine attributes.

1 John, iv, 16.-"God is love."

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LECTURE V.

Man originally made subject to vanity and to hope.

Romans, viii. 20.-“For the creature was made subject to vanity,

not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in

hope."

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LECTURE VI.

Salvation impartial and universal.

Isaiah, xxv. 6, 7, 8.2" And in this mountain shall the Lord of

hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on

the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well re-

fined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the cover-
ing cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe

away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he

take away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it." 75