EIGHT

85

SERMONS

ON

"THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES,"

RECENTLY

PREACHED AT MARGARET'S CHAPEL

IN THE CITY OF BATH.

BY THE

REV. HARVEY MARRIOTT,

RECTOR OF CLAVERTON, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD KENYON.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY

RICHARD CRUTTWELL, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, BATH;

AND PUBLISHED BY

HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY, LONDON; AND JOHN UPHAM, BATH.

1828.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IT is not with the rash attempt to explain unfulfilled prophecy, nor with the desire of scrutinizing presumptuously into the hidden ways of God, that the Author ventures to submit the following Sermons to the public eye. He would strongly endeavour, in the transactions of public, as well as in the most minute circumstances of private life, so far only to trace "the finger of God," as shall make these events, what they seem always intended to be, illustrative of spiritual good. In the wonders of providential guidance, whether manifested in the Word, in the Works, or in the Ways of God, he would gladly have his own mind led to see God's love manifested throughout, in tender mercy warning, or in parental love inviting, all to seek after and to

RMON I.

NS OF THE TIMES."

ST. MATTHEW xvi. 2, 3.

I said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, r weather: for the sky is red. And in the will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red, g. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of ut can ye not discern the signs of the times?

IT was the Saviour's rebuke to the ees and Sadducees, (men, for the most part, d, watchful, and learned in earthly things,) they were regardless of those signs of their es, which called them powerfully to the coneration of heavenly things. Not to watch, herefore, for such ways of speaking to the understanding and to the hearts of mankind, as Almighty God, in his providence, uses and appoints, from external marks thereof, is a sinful omission of an enjoined duty. It is a duty

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