The two following Sermons were first published, as the circumstances, to which they separately refer, called for them. And they are here reprinted, under the impression, that many of the dear friends to whom this little volume is dedicated, will be glad to have them in this more permanent form.

THE TERRORS OF THE STORM PRACTICALLY REMEMBERED.

A SERMON

PREACHED AT THE PARISH CHURCII OF ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA, ON FRIDAY, THE 16TH of September, 1831:

Being a day of general Thanksgiving and Humiliation for the preservation of the Island from the Hurricane which had recently desolated Barbadoes.

ISAIAH, XLII. 23.

"WHO AMONG you will GIVE EAR TO THIS ? WHO WILL HEARKEN AND HEAR FOR THE TIME TO COME?"

GOD has a voice for every ear, and accents modulated to every purpose of His will. In His law, there is the tone of sovereign authority to demand and enforce obedience ;in His Gospel, that of mercy and kindness to move the heart with every grateful response;

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-in His providence, that of parental severity to execute the no less compassionate designs of reproof and chastisement;-in His government of nature, that of majesty and impressive sublimity, to arrest the attention and call forth the involuntary awe and homage of those, who, otherwise, "regard not the wirk of the Lord, neither consider the operation of His hands." And much as sceptics may despise, and worldly-minded believers neglect, the established ordinances of religion,—much as a practical atheism, though united with a nominal faith, may induce men to banish every influential idea of God from their thoughts, to be unmindful of His glory in their pursuits, and indifferent to His interference in their daily preservation, there are occasions when the most determined hardihood of forgetfulness fails them;-when God is represented as "coming forth out of His place -as coming down, and treading upon the high places of the earth," to force His presence on their attention, and claim that homage to the glory of His power, which they would not yield to the silent and ordinary operations