GODLEWN

1 JAN 943

BRARY

Christiana Rickaby, Printer, Peterborough-court, Fleet-street.

MADAM,

I FEEL a hope that the plainness and sim

plicity of the following Discourses will not be thought to render them wholly unworthy of Your Majesty's notice. They were written to instruct the ignorant, not to dazzle or inform the wise. It was a duty arising from my situation, constantly to study perspicuity more than ornament, and to endeavour to be intelligible rather than profound. But Your Majesty is not likely to turn away from them on this account. I believe firmly, that the most unenlightened of His Majesty's subjects are

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far from being the least interesting objects of his paternal care and solicitude; and what care of HIS bosom does not Your Majesty participate?

These considerations, Madam, and others like to these, encourage me to hope, that it may not appear altogether improper, to have endeavoured in this manner to unite the most distant objects, and to have solicited Your Majesty's permission to lay my ministerial labours for the Cottage at the foot of the Throne !

It is with profound respect that I have the honour to be,

Madam,

Your Majesty's

most dutiful

and devoted servant,

EDWARD NARES.

SERMON I.

ON THE FOLLY OF SLIGHTING ADVICE.

GALATIANS iv. 16.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell

truth?

SERMON II.

ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF RELIGION.

ISAIAH xi. 9.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for

the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the

waters cover the sea.

SERMON III.

SIN WITHOUT EXCUSE.

ROMANS Vii. 15.

For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do

I not; but what I hate, that do I.

SERMON IV.

ON THE SECURITY ARISING FROM A RELIGIOUS

COURSE OF LIFE.

1 PETER iii. 13.

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that

which is good?

SERMON V.

ON THE SABBATH.

NEHEMIAH Xiii. 17.

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto

them, what evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the

Sabbath-day?

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SERMON VI.

CATECHISM.

PROVERBS xxii. 6.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is

old he will not depart from it.

SERMON VII.

ON EXAMPLE.

Same text.

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SERMON VIII.

ON EXAMPLE.

JOHN iii. 11.

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. 123

SERMON IX.

ON CONTENTMENT.

1 TIMOTHY vi. 6.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

SERMON X.

ON OLD AGE.

PROVERBS XVI. 31.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the

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way of righteousness.

SERMON XI.

ON DOING WHAT WE WILL WITH OUR OWN.

MATTH. XX. 15.

Is it not lawful to do what I will with my own?

SERMON XII.

A FUNERAL SERMON.

ECCLES. xxii. 11.

Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light; and weep for the

fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for