CONTENTS.

SERMON I

The original and present state of the world contrasted.

Genesis i. 31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it

was very good.

SERMON II.

Identity of the human race.

Acts xvii. 26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell

on all the face of the earth.

SERMON III.

Man urged to act worthy of his dignified nature.

1 Kings ii. 2. Show thyself a man.

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SERMON IV.

Esther v. 13.

Envy one of the basest passions of the human breast.

Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as 1 see Mordecai

the Jew, sitting at the king's gate.

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SERMON V.

Reflections on the devotion of the higher order of intelligences.

With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered

Isaiah vi. 2.

his feet, and with twain he did fly.

SERMON VI.

Little things blight the fairest prospects of man.

Solomon's Song ii. 15. Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the

vines, for our vines have tender grapes.

SERMON VII.

Man admonished of his duty by inferiour creatures.

Proverbs vi. 6.

wise.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be

SERMON VIII.

Human activity, a means of obtaining blessings from God.

Mark iii. 5.

Stretch forth thine hand.

SERMON IX.

The value and use of money.

Ecclesiastes x. 19. Money answereth all things.

SERMON X.

The service of God and Mammon impossible.

Matthew vi. 24. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.

SERMON XI.

Desirable effects of a preached gospel.

Mark xvi. 15. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every

creature.

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SERMON XII.

Joseph's affection, seasonably manifested, worthy of imitation.

Genesis xv. 4. I am Joseph, your brother.

A vain curiosity reproved.

SERMON XIII.

John xxi. 22. What is that to thee? follow thou me.

SERMON XIV.

Zion's trials and prospects.

Psalm xlviii. 12. Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers

thereof.

SERMON XV.

Origin of the Christian name, and success of Christianity.

Acts xi. 26. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

Psalm cxxxix. 14.

SERMON XVI.

Man fearfully and wonderfully made.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

SERMON XVII.

True religion all important.

Isaiah xxviii. 20. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself

on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

SERMON XVIII.

Neglect of present duty the ruin of man.

1 Kings xx. 40. And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.

SERMON XIX.

The path of human happiness.

Psalm iv. 6. There be many that say, Who will show us any good?

SERMON XX.

Little things make up the character of a man.

Luke xvi. 10. He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in

much and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.

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SERMON XXI.

On Justification.

Romans iii. 24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption

that is in Christ Jesus.

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SERMON XXII.

Death and the intermediate state.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and

Ecclesiastes xii. 7.

the spirit shall return unto God, who

gave it.

SERMON XXIII.

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The resurrection of the human body, and wonderfully glorious change.

1 Corinthians xv. 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption; and this

mortal must put on immortality.

SERMON XXIV.

Ministers of the gospel, encouraged to hold forth variety as a prominent

trait in their publick discourses.

Matthew xiii. 52. Every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of

heaven, is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out

of his treasure things new and old.

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