Lectures Addressed to the Young Men of Hartford and New-Haven, and Published at Their United Request (Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Co., 1828), Lecture V, "Religion the Chief Concern" (Eccl. 12:13), p. 126

Religion, my young friends, is not a subject to be trifled with; it is not a subject to be rejected with aversion or dislike. It comes to you as a message from heaven; it comes clothed with the authority of heaven's King…