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This work was pronounced " a magnificent monument of erudi- 

 tion, logic, and taste ; one of the noblest specimens of scholarship 

 and elegance of composition to be found in our youthful litera- 

 ture." An edition was also published in London. 



On the Latest Forms of Infidelity, Annual Discourse before the Alumni 

 of the Divinity School, Cambridge, 1839. 



Tracts Concerning Christianity. 8vo. Cambridge. 1852. 



A Translation of the Gospels, with Notes. 1855. 2 vols. 8vo. Posthu- 

 mous. Edited from the Author's Manuscript by his son. 



The Internal Evidence of the Genuineness of the Gospels ; in two parts. 

 Part Second: Portions of an unfinished work. Boston. 1855. 8vo. 

 Posthumous. 



He was also the author of the well-known " Lines written after 

 a Summer Shower," which have been pronounced among the most 

 beautiful in the language, " and of several hymns, favorites in 

 our churches, among which may be mentioned the hymn of res- 

 ignation, beginning with the words, — 



' My God! I thank thee; may no thought 

 E'er deem thy chastisements severe,' 



and another, to a friend in bereavement, beginning, — 



' O, stay thy tears ; for they are blest 

 Whose days are passed, whose toil is done,' 



ill a like spirit, and similar beauty." 



" The few poems of Mr. Norton, in point of exquisite finish, are 

 unsurpassed and almost unequalled." 



Charles Eliot Norton. 



Address at the Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the 

 building of the Meeting-house of the First Parish in Hingham, Monday, 

 Aug. 8, 1881. See published volume Commemorative Services. 



John Norton. 



An Essay Tending to Promote Reformation, By a Brief Sermon Preached 

 before His Excellency the Governour, the Honorable Council, & Re- 

 presentatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in N. E. On 

 May 26, 1708, which was the Anniversary for election of Her Majesties 

 Council of this province. By John Norton, Pastor of the Church of Christ 

 in Hingham. Jer. xiii. 15, 16. Hear ye, and give ear be not proud ; 

 for the Lord hath spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God, before he 

 cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, 

 and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow oi death, and 

 make it gross darkness. Jer. iii. 1, 7, 12. Thou hast played the harlot 

 with many lovers ; yet return to me, saith the Lord. And I said after 

 she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned 

 not. And her treacherous sister saw it. Go and proclaim these words 

 toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the 

 Lord ; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you : for I am mer- 

 ciful. Mai. iii. 7. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith 

 the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return ? Boston. 



