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This collection of fifty-seven sermons were all written between 1773 and 1777 and preached between 1773 and 1821. Most of the sermons are explications of specific scriptural passages. One sermon, number 184, was preached on July 14, 1776, and stands out for its explicit military rhetoric. If American soldiers did not continue to take up arms against the tyrannous Britains, he said, "farewell the sweets of Liberty..., farewell to domestic happiness, a dreary train of evils will then overtake us." Recognizing the reality of battle, he wrote, "some of you may be cut off by Death, & never return more...but that you may be excited to prepare for it. You may indeed live all of you to return, & you might have dyed if you had remain'd at home."

Divided into four small treatises: In treatise I, the author enumerates the four sources of knowledge In treatise II, the author discusses psychological and physiological matters. The last two treatises of 'The Microcosm' includes an informative introduction by the editor as well as an appendic of Saddiq's original Hebrew text.