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CONTENTS.
SERMON I.
THE CREATION.
GEN. i. 31.-And God saw every thing that he had made,
and behold it was very good
SERMON II.
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THE FALL.
GEN. iii. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel
SERMON III.
MOUNT SINAI AND MOUNT SION.
EXOD. iii. 12.-This shall be a token unto thee, that I
have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the
people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this
mountain
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SERMON IV.
WARS OF THE ISRAELITES.
DEUT. vii. 2-4.-Thou shalt smite them, and utterly de-
stroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor
show mercy unto them: neither shalt thou make mar-
riages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give
unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy
son. For they will turn away thy son from following
me, that they may serve other gods .
SERMON V.
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SUFFERINGS OF THE ISRAELITES.
DEUT. xxviii. 67.-In the morning thou shalt say, Would
God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would
God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart where-
with thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes
which thou shalt see
SERMON VI.
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BALAAM.
NUMBERS, Xxii. 20-22. —And God came unto Balaam
at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call
thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word
which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. And
Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and went with the princes of Moab. And God's anger
was kindled because he went
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SERMON VII.
PHINEHAS.
NUMBERS, XXV. 12, 13.-Behold, I give unto Phinehas
my covenant of peace: and he shall have it, and his
seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting
priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and
made an atonement for the children of Israel
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SERMON VIII.
JAEL.
JUDGES, V. 24.-Blessed above women shall Jael the wife
of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above
women in the tent.
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SERMON IX.
JUDGMENTS AND CHASTISEMENTS.
2 SAMUEL, Xxiv. 14.-And David said, I am in a great
strait let us fall now into the hands of the Lord; for
his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand
1 KINGS, xiii. 26.—And when the prophet that brought
him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the
man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the
Lord
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SERMON XI.
THE LYING PROPHETS.
1 KINGS, xxii. 23.-Now therefore, behold, the Lord
hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy
prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning
thee
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SERMON XII.
JOB.
JOB, i. 5.—And it was so, when the days of their feasting
were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and
rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offer-
ings according to the number of them all: for Job said,
be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God
in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
It
may
SERMON XIII.
THE PSALMS.
PSALM Xxiii. 1.—The Lord is my shepherd, therefore
can I lack nothing.
SERMON XIV.
CHRIST'S MIRACLES.-THE DEMONIACS.
ST. MATT. viii. 31.-So the devils besought him, saying,
If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd
of swine
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