EXAMINED, RENOUNCED, EXPOSED; IN A SERIES OF LECTURES, EMBRACING THE EXPERIENCE OF THE AUTHOR DURING A AND THE TESTIMONY OF UNIVERSALIST MINISTERS TO THE DREADFUL MORAL TENDENCY OF THEIR FAITH. BY MATTHEW HALE SMITH. TWELFTH EDITION. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY TAPPAN & DENNET. NEW YORK: MARK H. NEWMAN; SAXTON & MILES. PHILADELPHIA: PERKINS & PURVES. 1844. HARVARD COLLEGE APR 25 1888 LIBRARY. Jolm Hearny Treat. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. 55-179 LECTURE I. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. PSALM lxvi. 16. COME AND HEAR, ALL YE THAT FEAR GOD, AND I WILL DECLARE WHAT HE HATH DONE FOR MY SOUL. In these words of the monarch David, there is a singular and a beautiful propriety. On matters belonging to his kingdom, he would have called for his national council. On subjects of taste or refinement, he would have invited the gifted and cultivated to his presence-chamber. But when he spoke of the dealings of God with himself, the influence and operation of the Holy Spirit upon and within his own soul, he sought the society, the sympathy, and attention, of those who feared God. Monarch though he was, he was not ashamed to own the work of God upon his soul. Surrounded by the great, and encompassed with all the splendor that ever shone upon an Eastern throne, he could so far forget his princely position, as to call upon some of the humblest in the land to come and hear what God had done for his soul. For those only who feared God, could sympathize with his anguish, appreciate the distress through which he had |