The editors have fulfilled a task, which has cost them considerable attention and labour; but they have an ample reward in reflecting, that they have rescued from oblivion the productions of a man of genius, learning, and piety, which will be read with delight and improvement, not only by the present, but by future generations.

With affectionate respect to the memory of the author, these discourses are humbly commended to the blessing of Heaven, and the patronage of the friends of Christain truth, by

Aug. 20, 1807.

THE EDITORS.

CONTENTS.

MEMOIRS of the Author.

Discourse at the Funeral of the Author, by Dr. Holmes.

SERMON I.

On Christian Zeal.

Rev. iii. 19. Be zealous.

SERMON II.

On brotherly Reproof.

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Lev. xix. 17.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart;

thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin

upon him.

SERMON III.

On Secret Faults and Presumptuous Sins.

Psalm xix. 12, 13. Who can understand his errors? Cleanse

thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from

presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me.

Then shall I be upright; and I shall be innocent from the

great transgression.

SERMON IV.

On the Love of God.

Mark xii. 30. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy

heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with

all thy strength: this is the first and great commandment.

SERMON V.

On the Love of our Neighbour.

Mark xii. 31. And the second is like unto it, namely, this, Thou

shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

1 Cor. xiii. 13.

SERMON VI.

On Christian Charity.

The greatest of these is Charity.

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SERMON VII.

On Christian Charity.

1 Cor. xiii. 13.

The greatest of these is Charity.

SERMON VIII.

On the Vices of the Tongue.

James iii. 8. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly

evil, full of deadly poison.

SERMON IX.

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The Character of a Wise Man.

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Psalm iii. 10.

The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.

SERMON X.

On the Pleasures of Religion.

Proverbs xxiv. 13, 14. My son, eat thou honey, because it is

good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thỷ taste: so shall

the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul. When thou hast found

it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not

be cut off.

SERMON XI.

The Want of a practical Regard to religious Truth,

the Cause of dangerous speculative Errors.

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2 Thessalonians ii. 10, 11, and 12. Because they received not

the love of the truth that they might be saved; for this cause

God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a

lie
; that they all might be damned, who believed not the truth,

but had pleasure in unrighteousness,

SERMON XII.

Naaman the Leper.

2 Kings v. 10-14. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying,

Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come

again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was

wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, he will sure-

ly come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord

his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the

leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, bet-

ter than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them

and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And

his servant came near, and spake unto him, and said, My

father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest

thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he

saith unto thee, wash and be clean? Then went he down and

dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying

of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of

a little child; and he was clean.

1 John ii. 15.

in the world.

is not in him.

SERMON XIII.

On the Love of the World.

Love not the world, neither the things that are

If any man love the world, the love of the Father

SERMON XIV.

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On the Divine Preference of Mercy to Sacrifice. 164

Matthew xii. 7. I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.

SERMON XV.

On Christian Hope.

1 John iii. 3. Every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth

himself, even as he is pure.

SERMON XVI.

The Christian Pattern.

Philippians ii. 5. Let this mind be in you, which was also in

Christ Jesus.

SERMON XVII.

Religious Joy explained and recommended.

Philippians iv. 4. Rejoice in the Lord alway; and again I say,

rejoice.

SERMON XVIII.

Religious Joy explained and recommended.

Philippians iv. 4. Rejoice in the Lord alway; and again I

Matthew vi. 9, 10.

say, rejoice.

SERMON XIX.

On Prayer.

Hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;

thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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SERMON XX.

The Spirit, Employment, and Design, of the Chris-

tian Ministry.

Ephesians iii. 8, 9, 10. Unto me, who am less than the least of

all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the

Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all

men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the

beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all

things by Jesus Christ: To the intent, that now, unto the

principalities, in heavenly places, might be known by the church

the manifold wisdom of God.

SERMON XXI.

The Benefits of Affliction.

Hebrews xii. 9, 10. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh,

who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not

much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live ?

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own

pleasure; but he, for our profit, that we might be partakers

of his holiness.

SERMON XXII.

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On the Duty and Advantages of worshipping God. 282

Psalm xcv. 6. O come, let us worship and bow down; let us

kneel before the Lord our Maker.

Matthew vi. 12.

SERMON XXIII.

On Forgiveness.

Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our

debtors.

SERMON XXIV.

On the Connexion between denying the Son and

1 John ii. 23.

the Father ;

Father also.

denying the Father.

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not

but he that acknowledgeth the Son, hath the

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