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. The fame text. SERMON XLV. page I Of Inoffenfiveness and Innocence of Life and Manners. 13 The fame text. SERMON XLVI. 25 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. 48 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. 01700 61 SERMON XLIX. The Genuine Doctrine of the Gofpel, and the Caufes of the 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 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- 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 Jefus faid unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all The Joy and Exultation of St Paul in Publishing the Doc But God forbid that I fhould glory, fave in the cross of our On the Resurrection of Christ, and the Effects of this Event If ye then be rifen with Chrift, feek those things which are a- bove, where Chrift fitteth on the right hand of God.Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 219 The Nature of Religious Dispensation in the Old and New |