CONTENTS. Lage. SERMON I. The fitness of the time of the introduction of the gospel ; and the necessity of a miraculous inter- position to account for its success. GAL. iv. 4. But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son 1-17 SERMON II. The argument for christianity from the character of our Saviour. John vii. 46. Never man spake like this man 18–33 SERMON III. The advantages of sickness. PSALM cxix. 71. It is good for me, that I have been afflicted 34-49 SERMON IV. The excuses of the irreligious. LUKE xiv. 18. And they all with one consent began to make excuse 50-61 SERMON V. The love of fame. John xii. 43. For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God 62-7 The objects of faith. HEBREWS xi. 1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped of obscurity in his writings. 2 PETER iii. 15, 16. Even as our beloved brother Paul, also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be under- stood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own de- struction 1354153 . SERMON XII. Habit. Jeremiah xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil 154-169 MATTHEW X. 32, Whosoever shall confess me before men, Obstacles to the efficacy of preaching. LUKE viji. 18. Take heed how ye The'introduction of the affections into religion. PROVERBS XXV. 28. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city, that is broken down, and without walls 213_227 SERMON XVIII. Salvation by grace. EPHESIANS ii. 5. By grace ye are saved 238-252 SERMON XIX. The Pharisee and the Publican. LUKE xviii. 10. Two men went up into the temple to pray ; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican 253-263 SERMON XX. The character of Peter. MATTHEW Xxvi. 35. Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. LUKE xxii. 61, 62. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. The religious education of children. Ephesians vi. 4. Fathers, provoke not your children to The circumstances, in the situation of our country, favourable to moral and religious eminence. DEUTERONOMY xxxiii. 29. Happy art thou, O Israel, who (Preached on occasion of the State Thanksgiving, Nov. 1807.) The influence of the gospel on the character and PHILIPPIANS iv. 3. I entreat thee--help those women, which The connexion and mutual influence of knowledge, piety, and charity. 2 Peter i. 5–7. Add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge ; and to knowledge, temperance; and to tempe- rance, patience ; and to patience, godliness; and to godli- ordination of the Rev. C. Lowell, Jan. 1, 1806 350-353 1 |