LECTURES ΤΟ YOUNG PEOPLE: BY WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D. D. PASTOR OF THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ALBANY, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS, BY SAMUEL MILLER, D. D. PROFESSOR IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT PRINCETON. SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK:. PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. HAVEN, NO. 142 NASSAU STREET. 1831. Southern District of New York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourteenth day of July, A. D. 1830, in the fifty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America, John P. Haven, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Lectures to Young People: By William B. Sprague, D. D. Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany. With an Introductory Address, by Samuel Miller, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton." In conformity to the act of 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 time 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 designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." FREDERICK J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New York. Sleight & Robinson, Printers, No. 26 William Street. PREFACE. THE plan of the following course of Lectures was suggested to the author, by his having often felt the need of a book to put into the hands of the young, which would yield them counsel and instruction adapted to every variety of circumstances. Such a book he has here attempted to supply ;-a book designed to guard the moral principles and habits of youth, amidst the temptations of the world; to impress them with the infinite obligations and advantages of religion; to conduct them through that most interesting period of anxious inquiry concerning their salvation; to bring them to a cordial acceptance of the gospel offer; to assist them in ascertaining their claims to the christian character; and to enable them to prosecute the various duties and conflicts of the christian life, in such a manner that they may finish their course with joy. Several of these Lectures were written during the author's connexion with his late charge at WestSpringfield, and the whole course was originally intended especially for the benefit of the youth of that congregation. Since his connexion with his present charge, he has completed the course: and the several lectures embraced in it have been delivered in the hearing of the youth to whom he now ministers: |
