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Sunday Afternoon Lectures.

SERMON I.

PHILIPPIANS IV. 6, 7.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds, through Christ Jesus.

THIS, you will perhaps say, is a very common text. It is but how has it become so? In the same way that food and light and medicine are common: that is, because we are always needing them; and because, blessed be God! they are always ready, and generally sufficient, for our relief or comfort. We must not turn away, therefore, from those passages of Scripture, with which we are familiarly acquainted. Their value, believe me, is not yet exhausted. Study them only in more simple faith, and you will find that they still overflow with those streams of mercy, which God has laid up in his word for perishing sinners. No,

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