tory, but with those, which the Holy Spirit teacheth, or the words employed by God to express the privileges of the children of Israel and his relation to them. To these words, then, let every one, who wishes for an acurate knowledge of the Christian system, direct his attention.

[THE seven following Discourses,

though drawn up in the form of Sermons, were delivered as Lectures to a class of young men. The reader will perceive, that in various places the author has closely followed the Essays on the Death of Christ, &c., published by Dr. Priestley, under the name of Clemens, in the Theological Repository.]

SERMON XXVII.

ISAIAH i, 16, 18.

REPENTANCE AND REFORMATION ONLY REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD.

Come

Wash ye, make you clean, put away the Evil of your doings from before mine Eyes, cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek Judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the Widow. now and let us reason together (or as it is better rendered, let us settle the Affair), saith the Lord: though your Sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as Snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as Wool.

THE great object of public religious instruction

I conceive to be explaining the principles of revealed religion as contained in the Scriptures, in order that they may enlighten the understanding and direct the practice of the hearers. In doing this, the subjects which will most frequently come under consideration are those which are received in common by all Christians, because they are the most important. Nevertheless, where Christianity has been much corrupted, and reduced to a very different state from that, in which it came from the