CHRISTIAN SOBRIETY:

BEING

EIGHT SERMONS

ON

TITUS II. 6.

PREACHED WITH A SPECIAL VIEW

TO THE

BENEFIT OF THE YOUNG MEN

USUALLY ATTENDING THE PUBLIC WORSHIP

AT THE

WEST CHURCH in BOSTON.

Published more particularly at their Defire, and dedicated to them.

By JONATHAN MAYHEW, D.D.

PASTOR OF THE SAID CHURCH.

disa July 9 17 66-146 year of his age 20 chhin

MAKE no tarrying to turn to the LORD, and put not off from
day to day; for fuddenly thall the wrath of the LORD come
forth, and in thy security thou shalt be destroyed---My fon,
gather instruction from thy YOUTH up: So shalt thou find
wisdom till thine OLD AGE.
JESUS the Son of SIRACH.

BOSTON, NEW-ENGLAND:

Printed by RICHARD and SAMUEL DRAPER, in Newbury-Street :
EDES and GILL, in Queen-Street; and THOMAS and
JOHN FLEET, at the Heart & Crown in Cornhill, 1763.

2

To the YOUNG MEN who usually attend his Ministry; and, more particularly,

To those of them, at whose REQUEST the following Difcourses are published.

I

HAVE now before me a paper directed to me, signed by a considerable number of you; in which you express both a full perswasion, and a grateful fenfe of my friendly design in preaching the followlowing fermons: At the same time defiring a copy for the press, in terms at once too refpectful to me to be here repeated, and too plainly indicating a serious turn of mind, to permit me to deny your request.†

I SHOULD, indeed, do an injury to myself, if I denied that my aim in them was, as you fuppofe, "the bettering your minds and morals." And the manner in which you attended to them, when preached, together with your being fo well fatisfied with them as to defire to read them in print, affords ground to hope that, by the blessing of GOD, the fountain of truth, light and wisdom, the

A 2

† The paper here referred to, was signed by about fifty persons of the younger fort.