NORTH CAROLINA DIAMERICA, } DISTRICT OF CAPE-FEAR, BE IT REMEMBERED, that, on the 7th day of March, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1823, the Rev. Colin M'Iver, of the said District, has deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, viz: "The Southern Preacher: a collection of Sermons, from the Manuscripts of "several eminent Ministers of the Gospel, residing in the Southern States. "Carefully selected from the Original Manuscripts, with the consent and "approbation of their respective authors. Together with a few Posthu"mous Sermons from the Manuscripts of eminent deceased Ministers, "who, when living, had resided in the Southern States. Carefully selected "from the Original Manuscripts, with the consent and approbation of "those in whose possession they were found. By the Reverend Colin "M'Iver." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An "act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, "charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the "times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled "An act, supplement"ary to an act, entitled an act, for the encouragement of learning, by securing "the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such "copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits there"of to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, Historical and other " prints." Witness Carleton Walker, Clerk of the District of Cape-Fear. CARLETON WALKER. i Preface. CONTENTS. On the Perfection of the Divine Law. By the Reverend Jose Caldwell, D. D. President of the University of North Caroli Matthew, v. 48.-" Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Fat On the guilt and danger of. delaying to keep God's Comma ments. By the Reverend Adam Empie, Minister of the E copal Church in Wilmington, North Carolina. Psalm, cxix. -"I made haste, and delayed not, to keep thy Comman "ments." ■ the way of Acceptance, as announced in the Gospel. By the Same. Romans, viii. 3, 4.- "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak, through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in ' us, who walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." SERMON VII. 93 ■ the Doctrine of a Particular Providence. By the Reverend Arthur Buist, Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Psalm, xcvii. 1.-"The Lord the Character and Doom of the Wicked... By the Reverend Adam Empie, Minister of the Episcopal. Church in Wilmingon, North Carolina. Ezekiely xxxiii. 8. O wicked Man, thou shalt surely die." • SERMON IX. • 125 the vanity of Life, and the folly of the Worldling. By the same. Fob, vii. 16.-"I would not live alway." SERMON Χ. • 142 the necessity of Preparation for Death. By the Reverend John 5. Capers, Minister of a Methodist Church near Georgetown, South Carolina. Matthew, xxiv. 44.-" Therefore, be ye also Fready; for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man - cometh." SERMON ΧΙ. • 154 the Blessedness of not being offended in Christ. By the Reveend Eleazar Harris, A. M. Minister of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in York District, S. Carolina. Matthew, xi. " lina. 2 Samuel, iii. 32, 33, 34.-" And they buried Abner in "Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the "grave of Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? Thy "hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man "falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people "wept again over him." SERMON XIII. 194 On Repentance. By the late Reverend Andrew Flinn, D. D. former Minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Luke, xiii. 5.-" I tell you, nay; but, except ye "repent, ye shall all likewise perish." SERMON XIV. 212 On Regeneration. By the Reverend Benjamin Gilderslieve, a Presbyterian Minister, residing at Mount Zion, Hancock County, Georgia, and editor of a weekly religious paper, entitled "THE MISSIONARY." John, i. 13.-" Which were born, not of blood, "nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of "God." 225 SERMON XV. On true Greatness of Mind, as exemplified in the character of the Bereans. By the late Reverend Oliver Hulberd, former Minister of the Congregational Church in Waynesborough, Georgia. Acts, xvii. 11.-" These were more noble than those in Thessa"lonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of " mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things "were so." SERMON XVI. 242 On the Redeemer's Benevolence, in the Salvation of lost Sinners. By the same. Luke, xix. 10.-" For the Son of Man is come, to seek and to save that which was lost " 953 On the proper Agency of Reason, in matters of Religion. By the Reverend Aaron W. Leland, D. D. Minister of the Presbyterian Church on James' Island, South Carolina. Job, xxxii. 8.-" But "there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty "giveth them understanding." 281 • SERMON ΧΙΧ. On the Boundaries which limit the Inquiries of Reason, in matters of Religion. By the same. Proverbs, iii. 5.-" Trust in "the Lord, with all thine heart; and lean not to thine own un"derstanding. 299 SERMON XX. On the Resurrection of the Body. By the Reverend Allan M'Dougald, Minister of the United Presbyterian Churches of Bluff, Barbecue, Averasborough, and Tirza, North Carolina. John, v. 28, 29.-" Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, "in the which, all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, " and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the re"surrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resur"rection of damnation." SERMON ΧΧΙ. 318 On the Consequence of Unbelief. By the Reverend Benjamin M. Palmer, D. D. Minister of the First Independent, or Congregational Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Mark, xvi. 16. "He that believeth not, shall be damned." 327 SERMON ΧΧΙΙ. On the Admonition administered to Elijah, for his Despondency. By the same. 1 Kings, xix. 9.-" And he came thither unto a "cave, and lodged there: and, behold, the word of the Lord "came to him, and he said unto him, What dost thou here, " Elijah ?" 342 |