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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

SERMON I.-THE SUPREME BEING THE ONLY PROPER OBJECT

OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

AND I FELL AT HIS FEET TO WORSHIP HIM. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SEE THOU DO IT

NOT.
I AM THY FELLOW-SERVANT, AND OF THY BRETHREN THAT HAVE THE TESTI-

MONY OF JESUS; WORSHIP GOD. REVELATION, XIX. 10.

SERMON II.-THE WORK OF CREATION.

THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED, AND ALL THE HOST OF THEM.

AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND HE

RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE. GEN. II. 1, 2. . 21

SERMON III.- PROPHECY.

THESE THINGS UNDERSTOOD NOT HIS DISCIPLES AT THE FIRST; BUT WHEN JESUS WAS

GLORIFIED, THEN REMEMBERED THEY THAT THESE THINGS WERE WRITTEN OF HIM,

AND THAT THEY HAD DONE THESE THINGS UNTO HIM.-JOHN, XII. 16..

SERMON IV.-TRUE KNOWLEDGE THE FOUNDATION OF TRUE

AND THIS I PRAY, THAT YOUR LOVE MAY ABOUND YET MORE AND MORE IN KNOWLEDGE

AND IN ALL JUDGMENT. PHILIPPIANS, L.. 9...

SERMON V.-THE DEATH OF SINNERS NOT PLEASING TO GOD.

FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF HIM THAT DIETH, SAITH THE LORD GOD.-

EZEKIEL, XVIII. 32.

SERMON VI.—THE NATURE AND EFFECT OF DIVINE TEACHING

IT IS WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS, AND THEY SHALL BE ALL TAUGHT OF GOD. EVERY

MAN, THEREFORE, THAT HATH HEARD AND HATH LEARNED OF THE FATHER, COMETH

UNTO ME. JOHN, VI. 45. . . .

SERMON VII.-THE EXCUSE OF SINNERS, THEIR CONDEM-

THEN HE WHICH HAD RECEIVED THE ONE TALENT CAME AND SAID, LORD, I KNEW THEE

THAT THOU ART AN HARD MAN, REAPING WHERE THOU HAST NOT SOWN, AND GATH-

ERING WHERE THOU HAST NOT STREWED. MATTHEW, xxv. 24...

SERMON VIII.-GOD MOST FULLY DISPLAYS HIS GLORY ON

AND ONE CRIED UNTO ANOTHER AND SAID, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS;

THE WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY. ISAIAH, vi. 3..

SERMON IX. GOD'S HATRED OF SINNERS.

THOU HATEST ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY. - PSALM V. 5.

SERMON X.-THE REWARD OF MOSES.

FOR HE HAD RESPECT UNTO THE RECOMPENSE OF THE REWARD.-HEBREWS, XI, 26. . . . 123

SERMON XI.-CONSTANT JOY IN GOD THE DUTY OF CHRIS-

REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAY; AND AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE. PHILIPPIANS, IV. 4.

SERMON XII.-SAINTS DESIRE GOD TO PUNISH SINNERS.

GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS, AND ACCORDING TO THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR

ENDEAVORS; GIVE THEM AFTER THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS; RENDER TO THEM

THEIR DESERT. PSALM XXVIII. 4..

SERMON XIII.-THE CHARACTER, CONDUCT AND STATE OF

IT HAD BEEN GOOD FOR THAT MAN, IF HE HAD NOT BEEN BORN. — MATTHEW, XXVI. 24. 164

SERMON XIV. -THE HEAVENLY HOSTS PRAISE GOD FOR HIS

AND AGAIN THEY SAID, ALLELUIA. — REVELATION, XIX. 3.

SERMON XV. -THE CONSISTENCY OF THE DIVINE CONDUCT,

IN REWARDING OR PUNISHING CHILDREN ON

THEIR PARENTS' ACCOUNT.

FOR 1, THE LORD THY GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD; VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS

UPON THE CHILDREN, UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT

HATE ME; AND SHOWING MERCY UNTO THOUSANDS OF THEM THAT LOVE ME

KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. EXODUS, XX. 5, 6. . . . .

SERMON XVI.-HERESIES.

FOR THERE MUST BE ALSO HERESIES AMONG YOU, THAT THEY WHO ARE APPROVED MAY

BE MADE MANIFEST AMONG YOU.-1 CORINTHIANS, XI. 19.

SERMON XVII.- NEUTRALITY RESPECTING CHRIST IMPOSSIBLE.

HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME; AND HE THAT GATHERETH NOT WITH ME,

SCATTERETH ABROAD. MATTHEW, XII. 30. .

SERMON XVIII.-THE BLINDNESS OF SINNERS THEIR DE-

THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AS DARKNESS; THEY KNOW NOT AT WHAT THEY STUMBLE.

-PROVERBS, IV. 19. . . .

SERMON XIX.-FEEBLE MINDED CHRISTIANS.

A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK, AND SMOKING FLAX SHALL HE NOT QUENCH,

TILL HE SEND FORTH JUDGMENT UNTO VICTORY. MATTHEW, XII. 20..

SERMON XX. THE MORAL IMPERFECTION OF CHRISTIANS

THEIR GREATEST BURDEN.

0, WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS

DEATH? ROMANS, VII. 24.

SERMON XXI.—THE DISPERSION AT BABEL.

SO THE LORD SCATTERED THEM ABROAD FROM THENCE UPON THE FACE OF ALL THE

EARTH.-GENESIS, XI. 8.

SERMON XXII.—THE HOPELESS STATE OF THE HEATHEN.

THE WICKED SHALL BE TURNED INTO HELL, AND ALL THE NATIONS THAT FORGET GOD.

-PSALM IX. 17..

SERMON XXIII.-THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

FOR IF THE CASTING AWAY OF THEM BE THE RECONCILING OF THE WORLD, WHAT SHALL

THE RECEIVING OF THEM BE, BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD?-ROMANS, XI. 15. . . . . 298

SERMON XXIV.-SAINTS DESIRE TO SEE THE BEAUTY OF THE

ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD, THAT WILL I SEEK AFTER; THAT I MAY

DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, TO BEHOLD THE

BEAUTY OF THE LORD, AND TO INQUIRE IN HIS TEMPLE. PSALM XXVII. 4.

SERMON XXV.-WALKING WITH GOD.

AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, AND HE WAS NOT; FOR GOD TOOK HIM. GEN. V. 24. .325

SERMON XXVI.—THE TRIAL OF ABRAHAM.

AND HE SAID, TAKE NOW THY SON, THINE ONLY SON ISAAC, WHOM THOU LOVEST; AND

GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF MORIAH; AND OFFER HIM THERE FOR A BURNT OFFER-

ING UPON ONE OF THE MOUNTAINS WHICH I WILL TELL THEE OF. GENESIS, XXII. 2.. 339

SERMON XXVII.-THE HEARTS OF SINNERS KNOWN TO GOD.

FOR IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US, GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART AND KNOWETH ALL

THINGS. JOHN, III. 20..

SERMON XXVIII. -THE HOLINESS OF GOD BINDS MEN TO BE

BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, BE YE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY. -1 PETER, I. 16..

SERMON XXIX.-SINNERS VAINLY ATTEMPT TO DISSOLVE

THEIR OBLIGATIONS.

LET US BREAK THEIR BANDS ASUNDER, AND CAST AWAY THEIR CORDS FROM US.-

SERMON XXX.-TENDENCY OF THE GOSPEL TO ENLARGE THE

OUR HEART IS ENLARGED.-2 CORINTHIANS, VI. 11.

SERMON XXXI.-PRAYER OF SAINTS FOR THE CONSTANT EX-

ERCISE OF HOLY AFFECTIONS.

UNITE MY HEART TO FEAR THY NAME. PSALM LXXXVI. 11..

SERMON XXXII.-THE CRUCIFIED MALEFACTORS.

AND ONE OF THE MALEFACTORS WHICH WERE HANGED, RAILED ON HIM, SAYING, IF THOU

BE CHRIST, SAVE THYSELF AND US. BUT THE OTHER ANSWERING, REBUKED HIM,

SAYING, DOST NOT THOU FEAR GOD, SEEING THOU ART IN THE SAME CONDEMNATION?

AND WE INDEED JUSTLY; FOR WE RECEIVE THE DUE REWARD OF OUR DEEDS: BUT

THIS MAN HATH DONE NOTHING AMISS. AND HE SAID UNTO JESUS, LORD, REMEMBER

ME WHEN THOU COMEST INTO THY KINGDOM. AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY I

SAY UNTO THEE, TO-DAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE. — LUKE, XXIII. 39-43..420

SERMON XXXIII.-THE GIVER MORE BLESSED THAN THE RE-

I HAVE SHOWED YOU ALL THINGS, HOW THAT SO LABORING YE OUGHT TO SUPPORT THE

WEAK, AND TO REMEMBER THE WORDS OF THE LORD JESUS, HOW HE SAID, IT IS

MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.-ACTS, XX. 35.
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SERMON XXXIV. - THE EXHIBITION OF CHRIST TRIES THE

AND SIMEON BLESSED THEM, AND SAID UNTO MARY HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, THIS CHILD

IS SET FOR THE FALL AND RISING AGAIN OF MANY IN ISRAEL, AND FOR A SIGN THAT

SHALL BE SPOKEN AGAINST; (YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN

SOUL ALSO,) THAT THE THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MAY BE REVEALED. LUKE,

II. 34, 35...

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SERMON XXXV. — GOD LOVES THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.

I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME.- PROVERBS, VIII. 17.

SERMON XXXVI.—CHRIST WILL REJECT MERCENARY FOL-

JESUS ANSWERED THEM AND SAID, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, YE SEEK ME, NOT

BECAUSE YE SAW THE MIRACLES, BUT BECAUSE YE DID EAT OF THE LOAVES, AND

WERE FILLED.-JOHN, VI. 26.

SERMON XXXVII.-THE BLESSEDNESS OF GOD.

- WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. — ROMANS, I. 25.

SERMON XXXVIII.-THE FINAL HARVEST.

THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE WORLD. - MATTHEW, XIII. 39..

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