Sermons

not mA

2-19-19097

°༴

SERMONS

BY THE LATE

REV, JOSEPH LATHROP, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

NEW SERIES.

WITH A

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

SPRINGFIELD :

A. G. TANNATT & CO.

1821,

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ABTOR, LENOX AND
TK DEN FOUNDATIUN&.

1909

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit :

District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty eighth day of April, a. D. 1821, in the

forty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. G. TANNATT& COMPANY, of the said District, bave deposited in this of. fice the title of a book the right whereof they claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit :

“ Sermons by the late Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D. D. pastor of the first church in West Springfield, Mass. New Series. With a memoir of the author's life, written by himself.”

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 desigping, engraving and etching historical, and other prints."

JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the

District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS.

vii

PREFACE,
MEMOIR,

SERMON I.
THE HARMONY AND CONSISTENCY OF GOD'S WORKS.
The Lord bath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day
of evil.-Proverbs xiv. 4.

SERMON II.
THE MADNESS AND FATE OF IMPENITENT SINNERS.
Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil; and madness is in their
heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.—Ecclesiastes
ix. 3.

SERMON III.
Same subject continued

SERMON IV.
UNREASONABLE DEMANDS IN RELIGION EXPOSED AND

CONDEMNED.
Likewise also the chief priests, mocking him with the scribes and elders,

said, he saved others; himself he cannot save : If he be the King of Israel,
let him now come down from the cross; and we will believe him.-Mat.
thew xxvii. 41. 42.

SERMON V.
JESUS GLORIFIED.-A COMMUNION SERMON.
Jesus answered them, saying, the hour is come that the Son of man should
be glorified. John xii. 23.

SERMON VI.

aransfer from Circ. Depota ilutlerberg Branet NOV 23 1908

RELIGIOUS HOPE.
Let me not be ashamed of my hope.--Psalm cxix. 116.