THE GOSPEL PREACHER: A BOOK OF TWENTY …

1 THEGOSPEL PREACHER: A book OFTWENTY FRANKLIN, EDITOR OF THE AM. CHRIS. REVIEW; AUTHOR OF SINCERITY SEEKING THE WAY TO HEAVEN; TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE; AND PUBLISHER OF THE F. & M. DEBATE, ETC., : FRANKLIN & RICE, PUBLISHERS, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by FRANKLIN & RICE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for theSouthern District of Ohio. STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, BY THE ELM STREET PRINTING CO. 178 ELM ST., PAGESERMON I. EVIDENCES OF THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE. 11 SERMON MUST MEN BELIEVE TO BE SAVED?

2 35 SERMON III. HOW ARE PERSONS MADE BELIEVERS? 57 SERMON IV. DIFFERENT THINGS TO WHICH SALVATION IS ASCRIBED IN THENEW SERMON V. MEN MUST DO SOMETHING TO BE SAVED. 103 SERMON , OR TURNING TO GOD.

3 129 SERMON ADAPTATION OF THE BIBLE TO MAN. 153 SERMON VIII. THE SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. 179 SERMON IX. THE TWO COVENANTS.

4 205 SERMON INAUGURATION OF THE NEW INSTITUTION. 229 SERMON XI. PREDESTINATION AND THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD. 255 SERMON NECESSITY OF REGENERATION.

5 281 SERMON OF CHRISTIANS. 305 SERMON TESTAMENT EXAMPLE OF CONVERSION. 331 SERMON COURSE TO PURSUE TO BE INFALLIBLY SAFE. 355 SERMON LOVE OF GOD TO MAN.

6 383 SERMON CHURCH--ITS PURITY. 409 SERMON SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THEWORLD. 433 SERMON THREE STATES OF MAN--THE FLESHLY, THE INTERMEDIATEAND THE SERMON PUNISHMENT AFTER DEATH OF THOSE WHO DIE IN THE author of the following discourses cheerfully conforms to the usualcustom, in furnishing a few words by way of introduction to his new volumeof sermons.

7 When a new book makes its appearance, the inquiry is at oncestarted, What demand has called forth another book ? or, What is the object inoffering another book to the world? It is due, both to the writer and the public,that a few words of explanation, in reply to the above and some otherquestions, should appear here. 1. By means of the periodicals, and other publications, issued from thehand of the author of the following discourses, which have been extensivelycirculated in this country, and to some extent in other countries, he has becomewell known to many thousands as a writer and publisher with whom he has nopersonal acquaintance. Many of those his ardent friends he can never see andaddress in person.

8 From these the request has frequently been made, during thepast few years, that such a series of discourses as the following should bepublished. To meet the wishes of these, in this respect, has been one reason forthe appearance of this volume. 2. Again: there are many thousands, in all quarters of this country, andbeyond the limits of our own country, who have recognized the name of thewriter as a preacher of the GOSPEL of much success for many years past. It isnow true that he has been actively engaged in the ministry of the Word morethan thirty years, without the [5]intermission of a single week, except in a few instances when compelled bysickness to lay by for a short time, and that more than eight thousand personshave been turned to the Lord by his own personal appeals.

9 Many persons whohave been made acquainted with these facts, but never seen him nor heard hisvoice, desire to see a few of the discourses, as a specimen, which have beeneffective in the achievement of this work. This volume is intended, to someextent, to meet this demand. 3. Numerous persons who have heard the voice of the author of thesediscourses, and participated with him in the meetings held by him in hisextended labors in half the States of the Union, desire to have a. few of thesermons they have heard, that they may read and preserve them. They wantthem because they have heard and will recognize and identify them, and thuscall up anew the thrilling surroundings and interesting scenes on the happyoccasions of their delivery, in the presence of vast audiences.

10 They want themthat their children may read them, and recognize in them specimens of thepreaching that achieved the great reformatory movement of the nineteenthcentury, and produced such a revolution in the public mind in this great andrising country. It is an item in the intention of the writer to meet this Many friends have made the suggestion that immense good can beachieved by placing these discourses in the hands of serious persons, that theymay consider them candidly and composedly, without the excitement of publicoccasions. We have no doubt that much good will, in this way, result fromthem. They want them to send to their friends who reside whore they have nopreaching from those devoted exclusively to the GOSPEL of Christ, that theymay understand the ground we, as a religious body, occupy.