Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO. To which is prefixed, An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS, I am not afhamed of the gospel of Christ, Rom. i. 16. VOL. VII. FALKIRK: PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR,. For PETER MUIRHEAD, Merchant, the Revd. JOHN STEWART, MDCC.XCVI. CONTENT S. SERMON CVII, CVIII. The Commencement of all Saving Bleffings, HAG. ii. 19.-From this day will I bless you. 9 The words being confidered in their connection, divided and explained, and the spiritual meaning contained in them given in a doctrinal propofition, the following topics are difcuffed, viz. 1. What this fpiritual temple is, 2. What is the foundation thereof, 3. How this foundation is laid, 13 17 22 4. The day deferibed in which the foundation is laid, and from which bleffings take their date, 5. What the bleffings are which commence from this day, 7. The application of the whole fubject, in feveral ufes, (3) Of examination, both to unbelievers and believers, 26 32 36 39 ibid. 45 52 Glad Tidings in Sad Times; or, the City of God, in Times of Trouble and Confufion, watered with the river of Confolation, 62 PSALM xlvi 4. There is a river, the Streams whereof make glad the city of God. After a brief introduction, clear analization, and fuccinct explication of the words, and a doctrinal propofition raifed from them, the following heads of method are propofed, viz. 1. To fpeak of the city of God, 63 2. To fhew what thefe fad times are, that put the city of God in con fufion, 70 3. To enquire what grounds of encouragement the city of God hath GAL. ii. 20. I am crucified with Chrift: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. The verfe being divided and explained, and the former part of it opened up at fome length, and applied, two doctrines are raifed, and profe- cuted from the latter part thereof,-who loved me, and gave himfelf for me. The First is, "The love of Chrift, manifested in the word, to finners, is a giving love." From this obfervation the following 1. The doctrine illuftrated by a chain of instances, 2. The truth of it confirmed by an induction of particulars, The Second doctrine is, "That it is the property of true faith to en- 1. To enquire into the import of this particularizing property of faith, 2. To fhew on what grounds faith makes this particular application, 136 3. To affign the reasons why faith bath, and muft have, this appropri- 4. To deduce fome inferences for the application, Ufe (1.) For information, in four inferences, EZEK. xvi. 63. That thou mayeft remember, and bè con- founded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy fhame, when I am pacified towards thee, for all that thou haft done, faith the Lord. The words being viewed in their connection, explained, and a doctrinal 3. Point out the connection between them; or, the influence that the view of God's being pacified, hath upon this humiliation, Acrs xiv. 26.--To you is the word of this falvation fent. The words being explained, and a doctrine raised from them, the fol- 4. To make application of the whole, in ten inferences, SERM ON CXVI, 1837 LUKE XIV. 23.-Compel them to come in, that my house The words being viewed in their feope, divided and explained, and 1. To fpeak of the ministerial commiffion and authority imported in (1.) Who have this authority to compel, 2. To enquire into the end and defign of it, viz. that they come in, 209 3. To fpeak of the reafons thereof, namely, that his boufe may be An appendix, containing fundry confiderations and advices to The Fountain-Head of all Bleffings; or, the great 2 COR. v. 18.-All things are of God. |