The Good Man Useful in Life and Happy in Death. Psalm xxxvii. 37.--"Mark the perfect man and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace." SERMON XXVI. Departed Saints Fellow Servants with those on Earth. Rev. xxii. 9.--"I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets--." SERMON XXVII. The Subject Continued. SERMON XXVIII. The Dangers of Deviating from Divine Institutions. Col. ii. 8--"Beware lest any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit," &c. SERMON XXIX. The Sins of Communities Noted and Punished. Mat. xxiii.36.--"Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation." * * * * * SERMON I. The Wisdom of God in the means used to propagate the Gospel. 1 Corinthians i. 27, 28. "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and god hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought things which are." * * The two discourses on this text were originally one, and preached before Windham Association, at Thompson, October Session, 1798. Probably some of the ideas which they contain, may have been suggested by reading Paley's Evidences of Christianity; but as the author had not that book in his possession when he wrote on this subject, he is not able particularly to give credit to that excellent writer, if here his due. The mercy promised to the fathers was Christ, the Savior. That "the desire of all nations should come," was a prediction of his incarnation; and his entrance here was announced by a heavenly messenger, with, "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy--to all people." Yet "when he came to his own, his own received him not!" To many he hath been "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense!"