BY REV. WILBUR FISK, D. D. President of Wesleyan University. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY T. MASON AND G. LANE, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE CONFERENCE OFFICE, J. Collord, Printer. 1837. LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY. a.28625 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by B. Waugh and T. Mason, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York." VIII. Moral agency and accountability IX. Moral agency and accountability, continued X. Moral agency as affected by the fall, and the ADVERTISEMENT то CALVINISTIC CONTROVERSY. THE numbers following the sermon on predestination and election were written at different times, and in some instances at quite distant intervals from each other. This will be received, it is hoped, as an apology for any want of connection or uniformity of style which the reader may notice. And if any farther apology be necessary, it may be found in the fact, that the entire contents of the volume as it is now presented, were written in the midst of other pressing duties. And the same reason has prevented my giving the work such a thorough revision as it should have had, before it was presented to the public, in the more set and imposing form of a book. Such a form was not originally thought of—and now that this is called for, the author is well aware that the public might expect a careful revision and correction of the whole. From this, however, he must, of necessity, be excused. He has been able to do little more than correct the typographical errors. If the public have it, therefore, it must go "with all its imperfections on its |