The 51

DISCOURSES

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS,

BY

ROBERT SOUTH, D. D.

SELECTED

FROM THE COMPLETE ENGLISH EDITION.

WITH

A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY BOWLES AND DEARBORN,
No. 72 Washington Street.

1827.

CONTENTS.

Page

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. SOUTH

DISCOURSE I.

The Creation of Man in God's Image.-GEN. i. 27.

vii

- 1

[Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, November 9, 1662.]

DISCOURSE II.

The Pleasures of Religious Wisdom.-PROV. iii. 17.

[Preached at Court.].

DISCOURSE III.

False Foundations Removed.-MATT. vii. 26, 27.

[Preached at St. Mary's Church, Oxford, before the University, July 29, 1661.]

DISCOURSE IV.

Religion, the Best Reason of State.-1 KINGS Xiii. 33, 34.

[Preached before the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.]

61

DISCOURSE V.

The Scribe Instructed.-Matt. xiii. 52.

87

[Preached at St. Mary's Church, Oxford, before the University, July 29,
1660, on the Visitation of the King's Commissioners for rectifying abuses.]

DISCOURSES VI. VII.

Of Extempore-Prayer.-ECCLES. v. 2.