of gratitude I can show, every exertion for their spiritual welfare I can make, is abundantly due from me to them; for never was greater favour and attention shown to any minister, than they have constantly manifested towards me. I have long felt the obligation, and, I hope, I shall be thought to have discharged it to the utmost of my ability. Whatever be my future destination, I trust that neither time nor distance will occasion, on my part, a forgetfulness of past kindness, nor diminish my regard for those, whose anxious desire to be instructed in the knowledge of the Gospel, has given energy and facility to my la- . bours, and in whose service I have spent many happy years of my ministry. Should it please Providence to remove me to another charge, the occasional perusal of this Volume may bring to their remembrance their affectionate Lecturer, whose heart, though engaged in other cares and in new connexions, will never, while it retains the power of sensation, cease to own the attachment, which is now its pleasure and its pride. I cannot close this Preface without returning my warmest acknowledgments to those, who, in their endeavours to serve me in the present undertaking, have evinced a friendship too sincere and gratifying ever to be forgotten, too great and generous ever to be adequately repaid. From my heart I thank them. I have long been attached to them by the bond of affection, and am now drawn more closely to them than ever by the tie of gratitude. CONTENTS. SERMON V. ON OUR DUTY TOWARDS OUR NEIGHBOUR. Matt. xxii. 39. "Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thyself." SERMON VI. ON OUR DUTY TOWARDS OURSELVES. 1 Peter, v. 8. "Be sober, be vigilant." SERMON VII. ON THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. Luke, xxii. 19. "This do in remembrance of me." SERMON VIII. ON THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. Luke, xxii. 19. "This do in remembrance of me." SERMON IX. ON SINFUL INDULGENCES IN YOUTH, WITH THEIR FATAL EFFECTS. Eccles. xi. 9. 66 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things Godwill bring thee into judgment." SERMON X. ON WALKING WITH GOD. Gen. v. 24. "Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." SERMON XI. ON THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST AND OF THE DEAD. 1 Cor. vi. 14. “God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power." SERMON XII. PREACHED IN THANKSGIVING FOR THE VICTORY OF SALAMANCA. Psalm ciii. 10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses." SERMON XIII. PREACHED IN THE CHAPEL OF THE ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS, ON THURSDAY THE 13TH OF JANUARY, 1814, BEING THE DAY APPOINTED BY AUTHORITY FOR A GENERAL THANKSGIVING. Psalm cxxvi. 4. "The Lord hath done great things for us already, whereof we rejoice." |