MOBTIC

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

SERMON I.—THE PROPER GROUND OF SUBMISSION.

I WAS DUMB, I OPENED NOT MY MOUTH; BECAUSE THOU DIDST IT. - PSALM XXXIX. 9.

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SERMON II.—WATCHFULNESS.

TAKE YE HEED, WATCH AND PRAY; FOR YE KNOW NOT WHEN THE TIME IS. MARK, XIII. 33.. 19

SERMON III.-DEATH WITHOUT ORDER.

WITHOUT ANY ORDER.JOB, X. 22.

SERMON IV.-BURDENS CAST UPON GOD.

CAST THY BURDEN UPON THE LORD, AND HE SHALL SUSTAIN THEE.-PSALM LV. 22.

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SERMON V. - BENEFIT OF AFFLICTIONS.

I AM THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH TEACHETH THEE TO PROFIT.—ISAIAH, XLVIII. 17. . . .

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SERMON VI.-HAPPY DEATH.

AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME, WRITE, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

WHICH DIE IN THE LORD, FROM HENCEFORTH; YEA, SAITH THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY

MAY REST FROM THEIR LABORS; AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM. REV. XIV. 13. .

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SERMON VII.-THE SHORTENING OF HUMAN LIFE.

I AM DEPRIVED OF THE RESIDUE OF MY YEARS. ISAIAH, XXXVIII. 10..

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SERMON VIII.-COMMUNION WITH GOD IN AFFLICTION.

RIGHTEOUS ART THOU, O LORD, WHEN I PLEAD WITH THEE; YET LET ME TALK WITH

THEE OF THY JUDGMENTS. JER. XII. 1.

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SERMON IX. - FUTURE STATE OF CHRISTIANS.

BELOVED, NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE

SHALL BE; BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE

HIM; FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. JOHN, III. 2.

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SERMON X.-SUBMISSION TO DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY.

BEHOLD, HE TAKETH AWAY, WHO CAN HINDER HIM? WHO WILL SAY UNTO HIM, WHAT

DOEST THOU?-JOB, IX. 12. .

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SERMON XI.-HOPE IN DEATH.

BUT THE RIGHTEOUS HATH HOPE IN HIS DEATH.-PROV. XIV. 32.

SERMON XII.- HAPPINESS OF SAINTS IN HEAVEN.

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AS FOR ME, I WILL BEHOLD THY FACE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS; I SHALL BE SATISFIED, WHEN

I AWAKE, WITH THY LIKENESS. PSALM XVII. 15. .

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SERMON XIII.-CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS.

THESE ALL DIED IN FAITH, NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE PROMISES, BUT HAVING SEEN

THEM AFAR OFF, AND WERE PERSUADED OF THEM, AND EMBRACED THEM, AND CON-

FESSED THAT THEY WERE STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS ON THE EARTH. HEB. XI. 13. 157

SERMON XIV.-LIVING AND DYING UNTO THE LORD.

FOR WHETHER WE LIVE, WE LIVE UNTO THE LORD; AND WHETHER WE DIE, WE DIE

UNTO THE LORD; WHETHER WE LIVE, THEREFORE, OR DIE, WE ARE THE LORD'S. -

ROM. XIV. 8.

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SERMON XV. — DIVINE PROVIDENCE INCOMPREHENSIBLE.

THY WAY IS IN THE SEA, AND THY PATH IN THE GREAT WATERS, AND THY FOOTSTEPS

ARE NOT KNOWN. PSALM LXXVII. 19. .

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SERMON XVI. — WISDOM OF HEARING THE VOICE OF

AFFLICTION.

THE LORD'S VOICE CRIETH UNTO THE CITY, AND THE MAN OF WISDOM SHALL SEE THY

NAME: HEAR YE THE ROD, AND WHO HATH APPOINTED IT. — MICAH, VI. 9.

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SERMON XVII. -THE POWER OF GOD TO PREVENT DEATII.

THEN SAID MARTHA UNTO JESUS, LORD, IF THOU HADST BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER HAD

NOT DIED. JOHN, XI. 21..
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SERMON XVIII. - A WARNING TO YOUTH.

REJOICE, O YOUNG MAN, IN THY YOUTH; AND LET THY HEART CHEER THEE IN THE

DAYS OF THY YOUTH, AND WALK IN THE WAYS OF THINE HEART, AND IN THE SIGHT

OF THINE EYES; BUT KNOW THOU, THAT FOR ALL THESE THINGS GOD WILL BRING

THEE INTO JUDGMENT. ECCL. XI. 9. ..

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SERMON XIX. — EVERY ONE DISPOSED TO THINK HIS AFFLIC-

TIONS PECULIARLY SEVERE.

IS IT NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE THAT PASS BY? BEHOLD, AND SEE IF THERE BE ANY

SORROW LIKE UNTO MY SORROW, WHICH IS DONE UNTO ME, WHEREWITH THE LORD

HATH AFFLICTED ME IN THE DAY OF HIS FIERCE ANGER.LAMENTATIONS, I. 12.

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SERMON XX.-DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY IN THE DEATH OF MEN.

I TELL YOU, IN THAT NIGHT THERE SHALL BE TWO MEN IN ONE BED; THE ONE SHALL

BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER SHALL BE LEFT.-LUKE, XVII. 34.

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SERMON XXI.-SILENCE UNDER AFFLICTION.

AND AARON HELD HIS PEACE. LEV. x. 3..

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SERMON XXII.— THE TROUBLES OF LIFE DIVINELY APPOINTED.

ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST, NEITHER DOTH TROUBLE

SPRING OUT OF THE GROUND; YET MAN IS BORN UNTO TROUBLE, AS THE SPARKS

FLY UPWARD.-JOB, V. 6, 7.

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SERMON XXIII.-DEATH IN EARLY LIFE.

AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS MOTHER, HE SAT UPON HER

KNEES TILL NOON, AND THEN DIED.2 KINGS, IV. 20..

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SERMON XXIV. — RIGHT CONDUCT UNDER THE SMILES AND

FROWNS OF GOD.

THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE

LORD. JOB, I. 21.

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SERMON XXV. - DEPENDENCE ON MAN FORBIDDEN.

PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, NOR IN THE SON OF MAN, IN WHOM THERE IS NO

HELP HIS BREATH GOETH FORTH, HE RETURNETH TO HIS EARTH; IN THAT VERY

DAY HIS THOUGHTS PERISH.-PSALM CXLVI. 3, 4.

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SERMON XXVI. - EXPECTATION OF LONG LIFE UNWISE.

FOR MAN ALSO KNOWETH NOT HIS TIME AS THE FISHES THAT ARE TAKEN IN AN EVIL

NET, AND AS THE BIRDS THAT ARE CAUGHT IN THE SNARE; SO ARE THE SONS OF

MEN SNARED IN AN EVIL TIME, WHEN IT FALLETH SUDDENLY UPON THEM.

ECCLES. IX. 12. .

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SERMON XXVII. — SOULS OF BELIEVERS LIVE SEPARATE FROM

THEIR BODIES.

HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE. JOHN, XI. 25.. 338

SERMON XXVIII.-COMFORT IN CHRIST.

AS THE SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK IN A WEARY LAND. ISAIAH, XXXII. 2.

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SERMON XXIX.-DEATH OF SAINTS.

PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD IS THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS. PSALM CXVI. 15.. 366

SERMON XXX.-ENTIRE DEVOTION TO DUTY.

WHATSOEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT WITH THY MIGHT; FOR THERE IS NO

WORK, NOR DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR WISDOM, IN THE GRAVE WHITHER THOU

GOEST. ECCL. IX. 10.

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SERMON XXXI.- THE HOUSE OF THE GRAVE.

IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MY HOUSE.-JOB, XVII. 13..

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SERMON XXXII.-DEPENDENCE ON GOD FOR LIFE.

AND THE GOD IN WHOSE HAND THY BREATH IS, AND WHOSE ARE ALL THY WAYS, HAST

THOU NOT GLORIFIED. DANIEL, V. 23. .

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SERMON XXXIII. — GOOD MEN WAIT FOR THE DAY OF THEIR

DEATH.

IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? ALL THE DAYS OF MY APPOINTED TIME WILL I

WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE COME. JOB, XIV. 14..

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SERMON XXXIV. - THE LIVING GO TO THE DEAD.

I SHALL GO TO HIM, BUT HE SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME.-2 SAMUEL, XII. 23..

SERMON XXXV.-DEATH IN THE MIDST OF LIFE.

I SAID, O MY GOD, TAKE ME NOT AWAY IN THE MIDST OF MY DAYS.-PSALM CII. 24.

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SERMON XXXVI.-THE WORD OF GOD TAUGHT BY HIS

PROVIDENCE.

BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST, O LORD, AND TEACHEST HIM OUT OF

THY LAW. PSALM XCIV. 12.

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SERMON XXXVII.-VIEW OF ETERNITY.

WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH

ARE NOT SEEN; FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE

THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.-2 CORINTHIANS, IV. 18.

SERMON XXXVIII.—SAINTS WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN.

FATHER, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME, BE WITH ME WHERE

I AM. JOHN, XVII. 24. .

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