SERMON XVI. EXHORTATION TO DECISION AND EARNESTNESS IN RELIGION. HEBREWS, Xiii. 13, 14. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach: for there have we no continuing city, but we seek Page 245 THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. MATTHEW, W 20. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. SERMON XVIII. 261 THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE. 2 TIMOTHY, i. 12. For I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him, against that day. SERMON XIX. THE DUTY OF EDUCATING THE POOR 278 PROVERBS, Xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 295 SERMON XX. DANGER OF RELIGIOUS DECLENSION. LUKE, ix. 62. And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. SERMON XXI. Page 312 LOVE TO CHRIST THE DISTINGUISHING 1 PETER, i. 8. Whom having not seen, ye love. 828 SERMON XXII. PRAYER FOR THE LORD'S FAVOUR TO HIS PEOPLE. PSALM cvi. 4. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that Thou bearest unto thy people. SERMON XXIII. BALM IN GILEAD. - 345 JEREMIAH, viii. 22. Is there no Balm in Gilead? Is there no Physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 361 SERMON XXIV, THE CHRISTIAN REJOICING IN HIS REGENERATION AND HOPE. 1 PETER, i. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 379 TABLE of REFERENCE to the Five Volumes, pointing out such Sermons as are more particu larly adapted to certain Seasons or Sundays. SERMON Í. THE OBJECT AND WEAPONS OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. 2 CORINTHIANS, X. 4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong-holds. Ir it be true of individual Christians, that they are soldiers fighting under the banner of Christ, it is more especially true of His Ministers. They are indeed engaged in a conflict. For they have not only to contend like others, with the enemies of their own salvation, but they have to advance the kingdom of their heavenly Master, in the face of all that opposition, which it encounters from the devil, the world, and the flesh. In this respect their warfare is of a peculiar kind; and encompassed as they are with infirmity, they might reasonably be cast down at the difficulties in their way, and almost despair of success. But, blessed be God! they are not left to themselves in this arduous conflict. |