1838. 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 BY JOHN ERSKINE, D. D. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF EDINBURGH. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. London: PRINTED FOR RICHARD BAYNES, 1825. 1 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, |