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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

DANIEL WISE AND R. W. ALLEN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND, 3 CORNHILL.

STEREOTYPED BY

HOBART & ROBBINS,

NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY,

BOSTON.

PREFACE.

THE large and rapid sale of the volume containing an account of Rev. James Caughey's extraordinary revival labors * having stamped it with the seal of public approbation, the testimonies of numerous and competent witnesses having satisfied us that it has been made extensively useful, and many persons having expressed a strong desire to see some of those sermons in print which have been so remarkably blessed of God in the pulpit, we have thought fit to prepare and publish the present work, as a companion to the former. We publish it with an honest conviction that it will be a valuable addition to the spiritual literature of the church, and a means of leading many to seek a higher state of grace, and to engage in more intelligent and comprehensive efforts for the salvation of souls.

The sermons which form the first part of this book were mostly taken down by British stenographers, as delivered in public. They give as fair a view of the character of Mr. Caughey's pulpit efforts as can be imparted in print. But no one can form any adequate conception of the effect of these dis

* Over ten thousand copies were sold in about a year. The plates were then purchased by the book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, by whom it is now published.

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courses on a congregation, who has not heard them, as, ing with intellectual and spiritual fervor, they fell fron lips of that devoted man of God. They are published, n models either of form, style, or manner, for any man to tate;--Mr. Caughey cannot be copied; perhaps he ough to be; he is unique in almost every respect; - but we them simply as specimens of that pulpit oratory which has so wondrously blessed. Not that they are without as compositions. They do contain many fine, not to say lime, passages. They are rich in illustration. They br with the fire of a soul in earnest. They possess the power of kindling the heart to feeling, and of arousing reader to action. They cannot be read without profit. ilar remarks apply to his "Thoughts" on the manifold t treated of in the second part of this book. They are not gant; they are not always profound: they are abrupt; unity of the chapters is not always preserved,-a fault gro out of the fact of their being written originally in the form familiar letters: but they are vigorous, practical, plain, tinguished for strong common sense, and animated, like sermons, though not in the same degree, with life and ing. The soul of earnest thought is in them, and they benefit every reflective and serious reader.

DANIEL WISE.

RALPH W. ALLI

CONTENTS.

PART I.-REVIVAL SERMONS.

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IS ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION A GRADUAL OR AN INSTANTANEOUS WORK?

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Methodist opinion- scriptural distinctions regeneration - sanctification
begun the rising sun-sanctification may be received with justification.
experience of believers generally-why not given at once-case of primitive
believers considered-scriptural proofs Richard Watson's opinion-argu-
mentum ad hominem- various kinds of faith - Bartimeus the leper
diseased woman— - poetical extracts-paucity of those who are entirely sanc-
tified when justified— naked faith extract from an eminent divine-instan-
taneous work—an objection considered - conversion necessary to entire sancti-
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