AT THE BOOKSTORES OF F. LUCAS, Jr. & N. G. MAXWELL, A SERMON Delivered Dec. 18, 1821, at the Ordination of the REV. WM. WARE, TO THE PASTORAL CHARGE OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN NEW YORK, By his Father, HENRY WARE, D. D. TOGETHER WITH THE CHARGE AND RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP. N. G. MAXWELL, No. 140 Market street, Has also for Sale. Worcester's Bible News. Price 75 cents. Address to Trinitarian Clergymen. Price 124 cents. Locke on the Reasonableness of Christianity. Price 1 dollar. -'s General View of Doctrines of Christianity. Price 1 dollar. Charity rejoiceth in the Truth.-Paul to the Corinthians. Those creeds are best, which keep the very words of Scripture; and that faith is best, which hath greatest simplicity.--Jeremy Taylor. Baltimore: PUBLISHED, MONTHLY, BY THE BALTIMORE UNITARIAN BOOK SOCIETY. SOLD BY F. Lucas, Jr. & N. G. Maxwell, Market-st. JOHN D. TOY, PRINTER. If the experience of an obscure individual can be deemed worthy of a place in your little work, it is cheerfully offered. I give it also with the hope, that some one of the multitude, whose minds are warped by the misrepresentations of the bigot, or devotee, may, like me, be led to reflection, and instead of receiving the prejudices of any sect for gospel truths, may judge for himself concerning "the one thing needful." I was educated in the doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and my mother, a truly pious christian, spared no pains to inculcate those particular tenets, which she so zealously believed. I had the misfortune to lose her at an early age, but her kind admonitions were already deeply impressed upon my heart. Having attained the age of manhood, I began to weigh more deliberately the religion I professed. My Bible was not only read, but studied. Left now to judge for myself, not only the form of worship, but many of the creeds and doctrines of our church, appeared to me unwarranted by scripture, irrational, and inconsistent. But of all |