838 PRACTICAL DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER. BEING THIRTY-EIGHT SERMONS UPON THE PRINCIPAL HEADS OF PRACTICAL RELIGION., Designed for the use of Families. BY JOHN EVANS, D. D. TO WHICH IS NOW PREFIXED, A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY JOHN ERSKINE, D.D. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF EDINBURGH. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. London: PRINTED FOR RICHARD BAYNES, 1825. In the Preface to Dr. WATTS's sermons in Octavo, the reader will find the following character of this work. ----"Since I first published these discourses, " the world has been furnished with a more compleat “ account of most of these subjects, in that excellent “ treatise called the CHRISTIAN TEMPER, which my “ worthy friend Dr. EVANS hath sent abroad, and “ which is, perhaps, the most compleat summary of “ those duties which make up the Christian life, that " hath been published in our age. Dr. John Evans's CHRISTIAN TEMPER contains a course of excellent Sermons on that subject.-“ His Style is grave, plain, manly, and nervous-His Heads always distinct and well arranged; the Scriptures well and properly collected.” Vide Dr. Williams's Preacher, THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING WHAT SPIRIT LUKE ix. 55. But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, A SPIRITUAL IN OPPOSITION TO A CARNAL Rom. viii. 6. For to be carnally minded, is death ; but to be spiritually minded, is life and peace. 80 a |
