SERMONS

PREACHED IN THE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY-DE-CRYPT,

GLOUCESTER.

BY THE LATE REV.

JOHN GOULTER DOWLING, M.A.

OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD,

RECTOR OF THAT PARISH.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,
AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1841.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

THE DIVINE PRESENCE.

PSALM xvi. 8.

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I have set the Lord always before me : because he is at

my right hand, I shall not be moved... .....

SERMON II. :

CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY.

St. Mark xii. 41–44.

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how

the people cast money into the treasury : and many

that were rich cast in much. And there came a cer-

tain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which

make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples,

and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that this

SERMON VIII.

COVETOUSNESS.

HEBREWS xiii. 5.

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Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be

content with such things as ye have : for he hath said,

I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee . . . . . 132

SERMON IX.

THE GOSPEL A CAUSE OF DIVISION.

St. MATTHEW X. 34.

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

not to send peace but a sword . . . . . . . . 153

SERMON X.

WORLDLY WISDOM.

ST. LUKE xvi. 8.

The children of this world are in their generation wiser

than the children of light . . . . . . . . . . 171

SERMON XI.

THE STRAIT GATE.

St. LUKE xii. 24.

Strive to enter it at the strait gate : for many, I say unto

you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able . . . 188