DISCOURSES.

BY

WILLIAM CLAYTON.

"But all is in His hand, whose praise I seek.
"Whose frown can disappoint, the proudest page,
"Whose approbation-prosper even mine."

COWPER.

SAFFRON WALDEN:

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DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; AND YOUNGMAN, WITHAM.

[Entered at Stationer's Hall.]

PREFACE.

"MAN goeth forth to his work and his “labor, until the evening." Each individual has his appropriate occupation; and what this may be, must depend on convictions of duty derived from Scripture, local circumstances, or professional calling.

Impressions of the brevity of life; a solemn recollection of personal responsibility; a due apprehension of the vast weight of obligation to God, as the Creator and Redeemer; combined with the humble hope of Divine approbation, will prompt the enquiry, Lord! what wilt thou have me to do?

The situation in which He who fixeth