SELECT

SERMONS,

DELIVERED ON

VARIOUS OCCASIONS,

FROM

IMPORTANT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE.

BY HOSEA BALLOU,

PASTOR OF THE SECOND UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY IN BOSTON.

BOSTON:

MARSH, CAPEN, AND LYON.

1832.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1932, by MARSH, CAPEN & LYON, and in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE, BUT AFTER THIS

THE JUDGMENT.

Heb. ix. 27, 28. And as it is appointed unto men

once to die, but after this the judgment; so Christ

was once offered to bear the sins of many; and

unto them that look for him shall he appear the sec-

ond time, without sin unto salvation.

SERMON II.

CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE.

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Heb. xii. 2. Looking unto Jesus, the author and fin-

isher of our faith; who, for the joy that was set

before him, endured the cross, despising the shame,

and is set down at the right hand of the throne of

God.

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SERMON III.

RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.

St. Luke xvi. 19-31.-There was a certain rich man,

which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and far-

ed sumptuously every day. And there was a certain

beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate

full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs

that fell from the rich man's table: moreover the

dogs came and licked his sores. - And it came to

pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the

angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also

died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his

eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar

off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and

said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and

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