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TWENTY DISCOURSES

PREACHED

BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

IN THE YEAR 1827.

AT

THE LECTURE

Founded by the Rev. JOHN HULSE.

PART I.

LECTURE I.

THE POWER OF GOD DISPLAYED IN THE

HEAVENS.

PSALM XIX. 1-6.

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."

THE nineteenth psalm has ever been considered one of the most valuable among the writings of David. While it breathes, throughout, a spirit of the purest devotion, it is replete with sublime ideas, expressed in simple language and arranged in luminous order.

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