The Importance of a careful Examination of our Principles of Religion.

1 THESS, V. 21, 22.

Prove all things: hold faft that which is good: abstain from all appearance of evil.

SERMON XLIV.

Firmness in the Practice of Religion and Virtue.

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SERMON XLV.

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Of Inoffenfiveness and Innocence of Life and Manners.

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SERMON XLVI.

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The Meannefs and Falfenefs of the Common Excufe for Irre

ligion and Immorality.

LUKE xii. 57.

Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right ? 35

SERMON XLVII.

The Folly and Mifery of Senfual Indulgences.

2 Tim. iii. 4.

Lovers of pleafures, more than lovers of God.

SERMON XLVIII.

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Jefus Chrift the Author and Finisher of our Faith, and a perfect Pattern for our Imitation.

Heb. xii. 2.

Looking unto Jefus, the author and finisher of our faith: who, for the joy that was fet before him, endured the cross, defpifing the shame, and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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SERMON XLIX.

The Genuine Doctrine of the Gofpel, and the Caufes of the
Oppofition of Jews and Gentiles to it.

1 Cor. i. 22, 23, 24.

For the Jews require a fign, and the Greeks feek after wisdom;

But we preach Chrift crucified; unto the Jews a fumbling

block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Grecks, Chrift

the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

SERMON L.

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Faith in a Future State, the Chief Confolation under Af-

fliction.

I Cor. xv. 19.

If in this life only we have hope in Chrift, we are of all men

moft miferable.

SERMON 'LI. '

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Of the Sin against the Holy Ghoft, and the Danger of rafhly

applying it to ourselves or others.

MATTH. xii. 31, 32.

Wherefore I fay unto you; All manner of fin and blafphemy

fhall be forgiven unto men; but the blafphemy against the Ho-

ly Ghoft fhall not be forgiven unto men.

And whosoever Speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall

be forgiven him: but whosoever Speaketh against the Holy

Ghof, it fall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nei-

ther in the world to come.

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The Happiness of enjoying Satisfying Evidence of the Truth

of Chriftianity.

MATTH. xiii. 16.

But blessed are your eyes, for they fee; and your ears, for they

The Qualities of a Pious and Devout Hearer of the Word of

And if it seem evil unto you to ferve the Lord, choofe you this

day whom you will ferve: whether the gods which your fa

thers ferved, that were on the other fide of the flood; or the

gods of the Amorites, in whofe land ye dwell; but as for me

and my boufe, we will ferve the Lord.

SERMON LV.

Of Love to God as the First and Great Commandment.

MATTH. xxii. 37, 38.

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Jefus faid unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all

thy heart, and with a thy foul, and with all thy mind.

This is the firft and great commandment.

SERMON LVI.

Of the Love of our Neighbour.

MATTH. xxii. 39.

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And the fecond is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbour as

thyfelf.

SERMON LVII.

Our Saviour's Temptation in the Wilderness.

MATTH. iv. I.

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Then was Jefus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be

tempted of the devil.

SERMON LVIII.

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The Mifery and Unhappiness of a Senfual and Worldly Spi-

SERMON LIX.

The Joy and Exultation of St Paul in Publishing the Doc
trines and Precepts of Christianity.

GAL. vi. 14.

But God forbid that I fhould glory, fave in the cross of our

Lord Jefus Chrift; by whom the world is crucified unto me;

and I unto the world.

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On the Resurrection of Christ, and the Effects of this Event
on the Lives and Manners of true Chriftians.

COL. iii. 1, 2.

If ye then be rifen with Chrift, feek those things which are a-

bove, where Chrift fitteth on the right hand of God.Set

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SERMON LXI.

The Nature of Religious Dispensation in the Old and New
Teftament.

1 JOHN ii. 7, 8.

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old

commandment, which ye had from the beginning: the old

commandment is the word, which ye have heard from the be-

ginning.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is

true in him and in you; because the darkness is paft, and the

true light now fbineth.

SERMON LXII.

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The Tendency of the Spirit of the Gofpel, and its Miferable,

Perverfion by Human Depravity.

MATTH. X. 34,

Think not that I am come to fend peace on earth; I came not to

fend peace, but a fword.

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The Danger and Misery of Loofe Morals, and of Licentious

Affociates.

EPH. V. II.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness:

but rather reprove them.

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SERMON LXIV.

SERMON LXV.

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The Importance of Self-Examination, and Confequent Refor

mation.

LAM. iii. 40.

Let us fearch and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 279

SERMON LXVI.

True Religion the Evidence of a good Understanding.

PROV. ix. 10.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the know-

ledge of the Holy is understanding.

SERMON LXVII.

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The Meaning of the Expreffion, of Taking up the Crofs.

MARK. viii. 34.

And when he had called the people unto him, with his difciples

alfo; be faid unto them, whofoever will come after me, let

bim deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me, 301

SERMON LXVIII.

Our Saviour's Sovereignty over the Dead and Living,

ROM. xiv. 9.

For to this end Chrift both died and rofe and revived, that he

might be Lord both of the dead and living.

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