THE

SERMONS,

AND OTHER

PRACTICAL WORKS,

Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED

MR. RALPH ERSKINE, A. M.

Minifter of the Gospel in DUNFFRMLINE.

CONSISTING OF

Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS.

befides his POETICAL PIECES.

IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO.

To which is prefixed,

An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS,

with an ELEGIAC POEM, and large CONTENTS.

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We preach Christ Jesus the Lord, 2 Cor. iv. 5.

VOL. VIII.

FALKIRK:

PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR,

For HUGH MITCHELL, Bookseller, PETER MUIRHEAD, Merchant,
and the Revd. JOHN STEWART, the Publishers.

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THE

CONTENTS.

SERMON CXXVII.

FAITHFULNESS unto Death, crowned with

Life,

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REV. ii. 10. - Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee

a crown of life.

The words being viewed both in themselves, and their connection,
accurately analized, and copioufly explained, and a doctrinal proposi-
tion deduced as expressing their meaning, the following general
topics of discourse are proposed, viz.

1. To explain and illustrate the proposition,

2. To confirm the truth of the doctrine,

3. To make application of the subject,

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SERMON CXXVIII.

The Builder's Armour; or, the Work and Warfare

of Spiritual Builders,

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NEH. iv. 18. For the builders, every one bad his fword girded by

bis fide, and fo builded.

The scope and connection of the words being confidered, their spiritual
fignification ascertained, and a doctrinal observation propounded,

the following general heads of method are proposed, viz.

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1. To speak a little of the builders,

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2. To discourse somewhat concerning the spiritual foldiers,

3. To affign some reasons why spiritual builders need also to be spiri-

tual foldiers, still ready for war,

4. To deduce fome inferences for the application,

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