ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS RELATIVE TO THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, AND HIS WORKS IN CREATION, PROVIDENCE, AND GRACE. BY ADAM CLARKE, LL.D., F.A.S., &c. &c. VOL. I. THIRD EDITION. New-York: M'ELRATH & BANGS, 85 CHATHAM-STREET. BOLD BY J. EMORY & B. WAUGH, New-York ;-TOWAR, J. & D. M. HOGAN, Stereotyped by James Conner. 1830. ADVERTISEMENT. DURING my long ministerial life, I have written but very few Sermons, most of which have been already published; and, for want of time and health, they have been permitted to get out of print. I wished to have republished those, and to have added a few more, which I had prepared for the press; but the Editors, having got most of my MSS., without properly consulting me, announced a volume of original Sermons; for which I was not prepared. Many were brought to me which were said to have been "taken down by short-hand writers;" but when I came to peruse them, I found I could make no kind of use of them. They were neither in language nor in matter any thing to which I could creditably or with a good conscience set my hand. I afterwards understood that my enunciation, though distinct, was too rapid to be caught by those Artists, in consequence of which, many half sentences appeared, and the reasoning was marred, unconnected, unfinished, and indeed, sometimes contradictory to itself. This was the case, particularly with several which had been taken down some years ago, at the instance |