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Nine Sermons on Important Doctrinal and Practical Subjects (v. 20); Delivered in Philadelphia, November, 1834
Nine Sermons on Important Doctrinal and Practical Subjects Delivered in Philadelphia November 1834 - v. 20 Author:Hosea Ballou Volume: v. 20 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: Thomas Description: "The principal part of the 'Memoir of the author,' is extracted from Whittemore's 'Modern history of Universalism' ..."--Preface, p. iv. Subjects: Universalist churches Sermons, American Universalists Religion ... more »/ Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON VI. Delivered in the CallowhiU Street Church, Wednesday Evening, November 12, 1834. HEFUTATION OP THE SERPENT'a DOCTRINE. "And the Serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die." -- Genesis iji. 4. Your speaker desires to mention some of the reasons which have induced him to bring this subject before you this evening. It is well known, everywhere, that the denomination to which we belong, are accused of believing the doctrine which the serpent preached to Eve in the garden. Now, so far as this accusation is believed, so far honest people will believe that we are in the wrong, and of course will condemn the whole doctrine. They will feel no disposition to inform themselves concerning it, nor even to hear what we have to say in vindication of it. It follows that we, as a denomination, owe it to ourselves, to our oppo- ' sers, and to community at large, to show, if we can, that we are not correctly accused by our oppo- L sers. Setting aside every other consideration, you will perceive that I have a sufficient reason to take Up this subject; for one of my objects in doing so, 'to show, that we neither believe nor preach the s doctrine of the serpent. We owe this to o the principle that it Is not agreeabe Vo wcvj son to stand accused before the community, withou...« less