THE

SERMONS,

AND OTHER

PRACTICAL WORKS,

Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED

MR. RALPH ERSKINE, A. M. Minister of the Gofpel in DUNFERMLINE.

CONSISTING OF

Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, befides his POETICAL PIECES.

IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO.
To which is prefixed,

An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS, with an ELEGIAC POEM, and large CONTENTS.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Chrift, Rom. i. 16.

VOL. VII.

FALKIRK:

PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR,

For PETER MUIRHEAD, Merchant, the Revd. JOHN STEWART, and HUGH MITCHELL, Bookfeller, the Publishers,

M.DCC.XCVI.
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THE

C Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ S.

SERMON

CVII, CVIII.

The Cominencement of all Saving Blessings,

Hag. ii. 19.- From this day will I bless you. The words being considered in their connection, divided and explained,

and the spiritual meaning contained in them given in a doctrinal

propofition, the following topics are discussed, viz. 1. What this fpiritual temple is,

13 2. What is the foundation thereof,

17 3. How this foundation is laid, 4. The day described in which the foundation is laid, and from which blelings take their date,

26 5. Wiat the blesings are wiich commence from this day,

32 6. It is proved that saving bleilings do commence from that day, 36 7. The application of the whole subject, in several uses,

39 Use (1.) Of information, in four inferences,

ibid. (2.) Of exhortation, in six particulars,

45 (3.) Of examination, both to unbelievers and believers,

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Glad Tidings in Sad Times ; or, the City of God,

in Times of Trouble and Confusion, 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 bricf introduction, clear analization, and fuccinct explication

of the words, and a doctrinal proposition raised from them, the fol

lowing heads of method are proposed, viz. 1. To speak of the city of God,

63 2. To Thew what these fad times are, that put the city of God in confufian,

70 3. To enquire what grounds of encouragement the city of God hath in these fad times,

72 4. To deduce some inferences for the application,

79 Life (1.) of inforination, in three particulars,

ibid. (2.) Of examination, in seven particulars,

84 (3.) Of cxhortation, to three forts of persons,

88