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ter.

from it; as you will too foon discover. I
have not yet been able by any means to sa-
tisfy myself; nor can I hope to fatisfy you.
I have done as well as I could; and know
not that it will be in my power to do bet-
Nobler and more extenfive ideas rife
before me; but planning and executing
are very different things. Time haftens
forward; and life, attended with it's cares,
perhaps it's forrows, will quickly have run
it's course. Accept such as I can give, and
pardon errors and imperfections. I ftand
at the door of the temple, with my torch.
If
you would view it's glories, enter in,
and there dwell for ever.

CONTENT S.

DISCOURSE I.

The Creation of Man.

GEN. i. 26.

And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Page I

Preached before the University of Oxford,

at St. Mary's, June 9, 1771.

DISCOURSE II.

The Garden of Eden.

GEN. ii. 8.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom

be had formed

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Preached before the Univerfity of Oxford, at St. Mary's, June 16, 1771.

DISCOURSE III.

The Tree of Life.

GEN. ii. 9.

The Tree of Life alfo in the midst of the

garden

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Preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, Oct. 18, 1772.

DISCOURSE V.

The Prince of Peace.

ZECH. ix. 9, 10.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; fhout, O daughter of Jerufalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee: be is juft, and having falvation, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerufalem, and the battle bow fhall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion fhall be from fea even unto fea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

131

Preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, Dec. 2, 1764, being the first Sunday in Advent.

DISCOURSE VI.

The King of Glory.

REV. i. 7.

Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye fball fee him, and they also that pierced him; and all the kindreds of the earth fhall wail becaufe of him. Even fo, Amen.

159

Preached before the Univerfity of Oxford, at St. Mary's, Dec. 11, 1757, being the third Sunday in Advent.

DISCOURSE VII.

The Word Incarnate.

JOHN i. 14.

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth

191

Preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, Dec. 17, 1769, being the third Sunday in Advent.