THE

COMPLETE WORKS

OF

Abraham

REV. DANIEL A. CLARK,

WITH

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

AND AN ESTIMATE OF HIS POWERS AS A PREACHER,

BY

BEV. GEORGE SHEPARD, A.M.

PROFESSOR OF SACRED RHETORIC, BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY BAKER & SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET AND 36 PARK ROW.

1848.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by

J. HENRY CLARK, M.D.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York.

8. W. BENEDICT, Stereotyper and Printer.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

SERMONS.

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XLII.-The Enemies of the Church made to promote her interests, 7

XLIII.-Wrath conquered by love,

XLIV.-A brand plucked from the fire,

XLV. The Father the prototype of the Son,

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XLVI.-The Honest and Faithful Ministry,

XLVII.-The Wealthy Christian ready to contribute,

XLVIII. The Enlightened Conscience Unbending,

XLIX. The Enlightened Conscience Unbending, No. 2,

L.-The Concentrated Results of the Gospel,

LI.-The Bridgeless Gulf,

LII.-The presence of God the glory and guide of his people,

LIII.-The Gospel Recluse,

LIV. The Evening of Life sorrowful,

LV.-Heaven's Cure for the Plagues of Sin,

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LVI.-Heaven's Cure for the Plagues of Sin, No. 2,

LVII.-Christ conducts to Heaven a Holy People,

LVIII-Gospel Truth Distinguished,

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SHORT SERMONS, OR OUTLINES OF DISCOURSES.

1.—JEREMIAH iii. 5. Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things

as thou couldest,

2.-2 CHRON.Vii. 14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall

humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn

from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and

will forgive their sin, and will heal their land,

3.—JEREMIAH ix. 5. They weary themselves to commit iniquity,

4. LUKE X. 11.-Notwithstanding, be ye sure of this, that the king-

dom of God is come nigh unto you,

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5. EZEKIEL Xviii. 31. Why will ye die?

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6.-PSALM L. 21. Thou though test that I was altogether such a

one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set them in order

before thine eyes,

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7.—Jeremiah viii. 22. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no phy-

sician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter

of my people recovered?

8.-ISAIAH ii. 22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nos-

trils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

9.-HEBREWS X. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of

the living God,

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10.-GALATIANS iv. 15. Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?

11.-PSALM xlv. 10, 11. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline

thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father's house:

so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, for he is thy

Lord, and worship thou him,

12.—JERENIAH iii. 15. I will give you pastors according to mine heart,

which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding,

13.-1 PETER iv. 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where

shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

14.-GENESIS xxviii. 20-22. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God

will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and

will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I

come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord

be my God: And this stone which I have set for a pillar, shall

be God's house; and of all that thou shalt give me, I will sure-

ly give the tenth unto thee,

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15.-MATTHEW Xxii. 36, 37, 38. Master, which is the great com-

mandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love

the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and

with all thy mind, this is the first and great commandment,

16.-PSALM cii. 1. Hear my Prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come un-

to thee,

17.-LUKE Xviii. 13. God be merciful to me, a sinner,

18.-JOHN iii. 14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder-

ness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

19.-MATTHEW Xxv. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting

fire, prepared for the devil and his angels,

20.-MATTHEW viii. 31. And when they saw him, they besought him

that he would depart out of their coasts,

21.-PROVERBS iv. 18. But the path of the just is as the shining light

that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,

22.-GENESIS xxvii. 22. The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are

the hands of Esau,

23.-ECCLESIASTES viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is

not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men

is fully set in them to do evil,

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24.-1 JOHN iii. 3. And every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth

himself, even as he is pure,

25.-NUMBERS Xxiii. 10. Let me die the death of the righteous and

let my last end be like his,

26.-ACTs xvii. 30.-And the times of this ignorance God winked at;

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but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent,

27.—JEREMIAH Xvii. 5–6. Thus saith the Lord; cursed be the man

that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose

heart departeth from the Lord; for he shall be like the heath

in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall

inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land

and not inhabited.

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28.—2 CORINTHIANS Vi. 2. Behold now is the accepted time; behold

now is the day of salvation,

29.—Psalms cxxxvii. 5, 6. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right

hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my

tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusa-

lem above my chief joy,

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30.-JOHN xvii. 4. I have finished the work which thou gavest me

to do,

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