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Perseverance in the Religious Principles taught
in Youth, and particularly in Faith and
Hope, recommended.
COL. i. 23. Continue in the faith, ground-
ed and fettled, and be not moved arway
from the hope of the gospel which ye
have heard.
SERMON
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VIII.
Good Intentions the leaft fallible Security for
Good Conduct.
PROVERBS, Xi. 3. The integrity of the
upright shall guide him.
SERMON IX.
Religion the Chief Concern of Life.
ECCLESIASTES, xii. 13. Let us bear the
conclufion of the whole matter: Fear
God, and keep his commandments; for
this is the whole duty of man.
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193
On Conformity to Fashion, and the Customs
of the World.
ROMANS, xii. 2. Be not conformed to
this world.
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On feeking a Remedy for Sorrow, in Vice
and Diffipation.
ECCLESIASTES, vii. 14. In the day of
adverfity confider.
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XII.
Chriftian Charity, true Politeness.
ROMANS, xii. 9, 10. Let love be with-
out diffimulation. Abhor that which is
evil. Cleave to that which is good.
Be kindly affectioned one to another,
with brotherly love; in honour pre-
ferring one another.
271
On the Duty of preventing Evil, by actual
Coercion, as well as by Advice and
Remonftrance.
I SAM. XXV. 32, 33. And David faid
to Abigail, Bleffed be the Lord God
of Ifrael, who fent thee this day to meet
'me.
And bleed be thy advice, and blessed be
thou, who haft kept me this day from
coming to fhed blood, and from aveng-
ing myself with my own hand. Page
SERMON XIV.
21
On pursuing visionary Schemes of Happiness,
without attending to Scripture, and revealed
Religion.
JEREMIAH, . 13. Men forfake the
fountains of living water, and hew
them out ciflerns, broken ciflerns, that
can hold no water.
308
The Pride of human Learning and falfe Phi-
lofophy, a great Obftacle to the Reception
of Christianity.
I CORINTHIANS, iii. 18, 19, 20. Let
no man deceive himself.
among you feemeth to be
If any man
wife in this
world, let him become a fool, that be
may be wife.
For the wisdom of this world is foolish-
nefs with God. For it is written, he
taketh the wife in their own craftiness.
And again, the Lord knoweth the thoughts
of the wife that they are vain.
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SERMON XVI. ION
On the Duty of Servants.
PSALM ci. 9, 10. Whofo leadeth a godly
life, he fhall be my fervant. There shall
no deceitful perfon dwell in my house.
He that telleth lies fhall not tarry in my
JAMES, iii. 16. For where envying and
ftrife is, there is confufion and every
evil work.
SERMON XVIII.
363
The Cunning of the Wicked inconfiftent with
Wisdom.
JEREMIAH, iv. 22. They are wife to do
evil, but to do good they have no know-
ledge.
SERMON XIX.
385
On the Snares of the Devil, and Means of
escaping them.
MATT. vi. 13. But deliver us from
evil.
401
Moderation neceffary to all folid and durable
Enjoyment.
PROVERBS, XXV. 16. Haft thou found
honey? eat fo much as is fufficient for
thee, left thou be filled therewith, and
vomit it.
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SERMON XXI.
Happiness to be found rather in the Enjoy-
ment of Health and innocence, than in the
fuccessful Pursuits of Avarice and Am-
bition.
JEREMIAH, xlv. 5. And feekeft thou
great things for thyself? feek them not.
For, behold, I will bring evil upon all
flesh, faith the Lord: but thy life will
I give unto thee, for a prey, in all
places whither thou goeft.
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XXII.
On the Duties of the Preacher and the
Hearer.
2 CORINTHIANS, ii. 16. And who
is fufficient for these things?
a 8.
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