MISCELLANEOUS DISCOURSES AND 63778 EXPOSITIONS OF SCRIPTURE. BY GEORGE PAXTON YOUNG, A.M., ONE OF THE PROFESSORS OF THEOLOGY IN KNOX'S COLLEGE, TORONTO, CANADA WEST. EDINBURGH: JOHNSTONE AND HUNTER. HAMILTON, CANADA WEST: D. M'LELLAN. M.DCCC.LIV. PREFACE. THE Author of the following Discourses having been removed, in the month of July last, from his pastoral charge at Hamilton, C. W., to a Theological Chair in Knox's College, Toronto, was urgently requested to publish the sermon which he preached to his people on the occasion of leaving them. With this request he did not feel disposed to comply: but on consideration he resolved, for various reasons, to commit to press a volume of Sermons and Expositions of Scripture of a miscellaneous description; which he now accordingly lays before the public. His farewell sermon to his congregation at Hamilton is included in the volume, under the title, "The Gospel Judged to be Wisdom by them who are Perfect." The Discourses, as now published, are not materially different from what they were when originally preached in the ordinary course of Sabbath ministration. TORONTO, 2d January 1854. CONTENTS. FAGE "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart: so that no man can find out the work that God IV. TWO SIDES OF A QUESTION; OR, RIGHTEOUS OVERMUCH, AND OVERMUCH WICKED, "All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that pro- longeth his life in his wickedness. Be not righteous over-much; neither make thyself over-wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Be not over-much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die be- fore thy time? It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come |