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Vol.  II.  New-York, December, 1827.  No. 7.

=Sermon XXVI.=

By Aaron W. Leland, D.D.

Charleston, S. Carolina.

THE PURE GOSPEL REJECTED BY THE PERISHING.

1 COR.  I. 18.—­For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness.