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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.
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SERMON II.
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
marriages 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.
BALAAM.
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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 . . 51
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 priest-
hood; because he was zealous for his God, and made
an atonement for the children of Israel
SERMON VIII.
JAEL.
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JUDGES V. 24.-Blessed above women shall Jael the
wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above
women in the tent
SERMON IX.
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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
of man
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SERMON X.
THE DISOBEDIENT PROPHET.
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
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
offerings according to the number of them all: for Job
said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed
God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually
SERMON XIII.
THE PSALMS.
PSALM Xxiii. 1.-The Lord is my shepherd, therefore can
I lack nothing
SERMON XIV.
JOHN THE BAPTIST.
ST. LUKE iii. 4.—Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
his paths straight.
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SERMON XV.
ZACCHÆUS.
ST. LUKE xix. 9.-This day is salvation come unto this
house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham
SERMON XVI.
THE SECOND BIRTH.
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ST. JOHN iii. 5, 6.—Except a man be born of water and
of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit
SERMON XVII.
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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SERMON XVIII.
CHRIST'S PARABLES.-THE GROWING SEED.
ST. MARK iv. 28, 29.-For the earth bringeth forth fruit
of herself, first the blade, then the ear, after that the
full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought
forth, immediately they put in the sickle, because the
harvest is come
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