EXPLAINED AND DEFENDED,

IN A

SERIES OF SERMONS;

BY

TIMOTHY DWIGHT, S. T. D. LL. D.

LATE PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE.

WITH A

MEMOIR

OF

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

FOURTH EDITION,

VOL. I.

NEW-HAVEN;

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY S. CONVERSE.

STEREOTYPED BY A. CHANDLER.

1825.

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss.

Be it rememberED, That on the fifth day of January, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Timothy Dwight, and William T. Dwight, both of said District; Administrators of the Rev. Timothy Dwight, now deceased, and late of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Administrators as aforesaid, and Proprietors, in the words following, to wit :

"Theology; explained and defended, in a Series of Sermons; by Timothy Dwight, S. T. D. LL. D. late President of Yale College. With a Memoir of the Life of the Author. In five Volumes. Vol. I."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."