Excerpt from Discourses on Special Occasions, Vol. 2 For from the suggestions of an individual discourse. The method I have deemed it better to adopt, there fore, is, rather to aim at concentrating your atten tion upon some single topic from which the transition may be easy and natural to all that belongs to those engagements on which you are called to enter. And how could this be more effectually aecom plished, than by inviting you to reflect on the neces sity of such concentration and singleness of thought, not in the present service only, but in the whole fulfilment of your ministry? In the declaration be fore us, this sentiment, though simply, is yet most energetically embodied; - and I commend it to your notice, as worthy to excite, and certain to repay it. I select this single fragment, detaching it from its connection with a very important and striking p sage, not so much for any special adaptation to convey, of itself, a just conception respecting the nature or ends of your employment; as because it may, when thus detached, through its brevity and pointedness of expression, secure, perhaps, a more permanent remembrance, and serve to recall more vividly the solemnities and obligations of this day. It may be remembered, when all besides is forgot ten; and, though every observation now Offered, and every momentary feeling now awakened, should pass into oblivion, I trust these few emphatic words may be frequently renewed in their impression, amidst the occupations that await you as a Christian pastor. Often will they bring back to you the good confession you have publicly witnessed, the vows you have solemnly recorded, and the prayers and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.