iv 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. ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF RELIGION. 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 ON THE SECURITY ARISING FROM A RELIGIOUS And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that 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? 7 1 SERMON ON THE NECESSITY OF GOOD WORKS. The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed. But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end ever- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal SERMON XVI. THE BEATITUDES. LUKE vi. 20. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said, blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 269 SERMON XVII. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. MATTH. xiii. 13. Therefore speuk I to them in parables, 287 SERMON XVIII. THE UNJUST-STEWARD, LUKE xvi. 8. And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; for the children of this world are in their ge- nerations wiser than the children of light, 305 SERMON Pages And he said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness ; One day telleth another, and one night certifieth another. Then they returned every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the fore-front of them, to go again to Jeru- salem with joy; for the Lord had made them to rejoice And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and trumpets, unto the house of the Lord. And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those coura tries, when they heard that the Lord fought against the ene- |