Τ Η Ε CONTÈN TS. PRE FACE Page iii SERMON I. JOHN viii. 46. SERMON II. morality. MATTHEW vii. 28. For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the Scribes. IIO S E R M O N III. Our Saviour's character, as a teacher of morality continued. 144 SE R M O N IV. Observations upon our Saviour's last dif courses with his disciples. JOHN xiv. 1. Let not your beart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in me. 178 SE R M ON V. The character and life of the Apostle Paul. ACTS XX. 24. But none of these things move me, neither ac count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the 209 grace of God. SE R M ON VI. The character and life of the Apostle continued, 243 SERMON VII. Observations upon the Apostle Paul's de scription of the Man of Sin. 2 THESAL. ii. 3-13. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, tbe Son of Perdition ; who opposeth opposeth and exalteth himself above all, that is called God, or is worshipped : 10 that he, as God, fitteth in the temple of God, Shewing himself, that he is God. Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things ? And now ye know what with-boldeth, that be might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only be, who now letteth, will lett, until be be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord Mall consume by the spirit of his mouth, and destroy by the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and figns, and lying wonders ; and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God Mall send them strong delufons, that they Mould believe a lie; that they all might be damned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 272 SERMON VIII. The Apostle John's character and writings considered, JOHN xxi. 24. This is the disciple, which testifieth these things, and wrote these things, and we know, that his testimony is true. 310 SER |