Shame, and is fet down at the right Hand of the Throne of God.

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SERMON VII.

Preached at St. James's Chapel on PalmSunday.

I COR. i. 22, 23, 24.

For the Jews require a Sign, and the Greeks feek after Wisdom;

But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews a Stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks Foolishness;

But unto them which are called, both fews and
Greeks, Chrift, the Power of God, and the
Wisdom of God.
P. 145

SERMON VIII.
Preached on Easter-Day.

I COR. XV. 19.

If in this Life only we have Hope in Chrift, we are of all Men moft miferable.

P. 171

SERMON IX.

Preached on Whitfunday.

MATTH. xii. 31, 32.

Wherefore I fay unto you: All Manner of Sin and Blafphemy fhall be forgiven unto Men:

but

but the Blafphemy against the Holy Ghost fhall not be forgiven unto Men. And whosoever Speaketh a Word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him: but whofoever fpeaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this World, neither in the World to come. p. 191

SERMON X.

MATTH. xii. 36.

But I fay unto you, that every idle Word, that Men fhall Speak, they shall give Account thereof in the Day of Judgment.

p. 219

SERMON XI.

MATTH. xiii. 16.

But blessed are your Eyes, for they fee; and your Ears, for they hear.

p. 243

SERMO.N XII,

LUKE viii. 18.

Take Heed therefore how ye

bear.

p. 271

DR

R. THOMAS SECKER, late Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in the Year 1693, at a small Village called Sibthorp, . in the Vale of Belvoir, Nottinghamshire. His Father was a Protestant Diffenter, a pious, virtuous, and fenfible Man, who, having a small paternal Fortune, followed no Profeffion. His Mother was the Daughter of Mr. GEORGE BROUGH, of Shelton, in the County of Nottingham, a fubftantial GentlemanFarmer. He received his Education at feveral private Schools and Academies in the Country, being obliged by various Accidents to change his Masters frequently. Notwith

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ftanding this evident Difadvantage, at the Age of Nineteen he had not only made a confiderable Progrefs in Greek and Latin, and read the beft and moft difficult Writers in both Languages, but had acquired a Knowledge of French, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac, had learned Geography, Logic, Algebra, Geometry, Conic Sections, and gone through a Course of Lectures on Jewish Antiquities, and other Points, preparatory to the critical Study of the Bible. At the fame Time, in one or other of thofe Seminaries, he had the good Fortune to meet, and to form an Acquaintance, with feveral Perfons of great Abilities. Amongst the reft, in the Academy of one Mr. JONES, kept firft at Gloucefter, then at Tewkesbury, he laid the Foundation of a strict Friendship with Mr. JOSEPH BUTLER, afterwards Bishop of Durham. At the laft of those two Places it was that Mr. BUTLER gave the firft Proof of his great Sagacity and Depth of Thought in the Letters which he then wrote to Dr. SAMUEL CLARKE; laying before him the Doubts that had arifen in his Mind, concerning the Conclufiveness of fome Arguments in the DOCTOR's Demonftration of the Being and Attributes of God. Thefe were written with