But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming, and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken, the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him TRUST IN PROVIDENCE, THE COMFORT Of man's life. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come THE NATURE AND MALIGNITY OF SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS. Lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemna- tion of the Devil. 1 Tim. iii. 6.... [Preached at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, at the Visitation of John, And upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring: men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which [Preached in the Metropolitical Church, at Canterbury, September Ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words [Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, in A COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF IT FROM THE SCRIPTURE ITSEL? DELIVERED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF NAYLAND, IN SUFFOLK, IN THE YEAR 1786. TO WHICH ARE ADDED FOUR LECTURES ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AS IT IS SET FORTH IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. TO THE MOST REVEREND HIS GRACE JOHN MOORE, D.D. LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL ENGLAND; THIS VOLUME OF LECTURES, INTENDED TO PROMOTE A MORE ACCURATE AND INTERESTING KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE LANGUAGE AND DOCTRINE OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, IS MOST HUMBLY RECOMMENDED AND INSCRIBED, BY HIS GRACE'S MOST OBLIGED, MOST FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, WILLIAM JONES. A COURSE OF LECTURES, &c. &c. LECTURE I. THE INTRODUCTION: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN, HOW THE LANGUAGE OF THE SCRIPTURE DIFFERS FROM THAT OF OTHER BOOKS ; AND WHENCE ITS OBSCURITY ARISES. WHEN the maker of the world becomes an author, his word must be as perfect as his work: the glory of his wisdom must be declared by the one as evidently as the glory of his power is by the other: and if nature repays the philosopher for his experiments, the scripture can never disappoint those who are properly exercised in the study of it. The world which God hath made is open to every eye: but to look upon the works of nature, and to look into the ways of nature, are very different things; the latter of which is the result of much labour and observation. If the œconomy of nature be not to be learned from a transient inspection of the heavens and the earth; and if the ground will not yield its strength |