There were false prophets among the people, even as there shall
be false teachers among you——, And many shall follow their
peruicious ways.-
Apostle Peter.

ELEVENTH EDITION,

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND MUCH ENLARGED.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN.
NO. 6 MARLBORO'-STREET.

Samuel Avery, Printer.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT :

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the tenth day of December A. D. 1810, and in the thirty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, ISAIAH THOMAS, jun. of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Proprietor in the words following, to wit: "CHRIST's WARNING to the CHURCHES, to beware of False Prophets, who come as wolves in sheep's clothing and the marks by which they are known: illustrated in te o Discourses, with an Appendix. By JOSEPH LATHROP, D. D. Pastor of the First Church in West-Springfield. There » ere false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you-And many shall follow their pernicious -Apostle Peter.- -Eleventh Edition, revised, corrected

ways.

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and much enlarged ".

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PREFACE.

It has been a conjecture of some, who have read the former editions of the following discourses, that the author has a special view to certain sects, as Methodists and Baptists; and aimed to place them in an odious light. But the conjecture is unfounded. He had no particular view to these, or any other denomination; but a general view to disorderly teachers of all denominations.

The discourses were written and preached, when methodists were scarcely known in this part of the country, and when baptists were little distinguished by the intemperance of their zeal for proselytism, and when neither of them attempted to make divisions among his people.