CONTENTS. SERMON I. PREACHED ON POSSESSION BEING TAKEN OF THE BENEFICE. 2 PETER i. 12. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth..... SERMON II. ST. MATTHEW. ST. MATTHEW ix. 9. And as Jesus passed forth from thence He saw a man, PAGE 1 and followed Him. 27 SERMON III. ST. MARK. 1 PETER V. 13. The Church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus, my son... 47 SERMON IV. ST. LUKE. 2 COR. viii. 18, 19. PAGE And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches: And not that only, but who was also chosen of the Churches to travail with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord.. 67 SERMON V. ST. JOHN. ST. JOHN xxi. 23, 24. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true 87 SERMON VI. ST. PAUL. 2 TIM. iv. 6. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.... 111 SERMON VII. ST. PETER. 2 PETER i. 13, 14. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.. PAGE 133 [Preached at the beginning of a New Year: appropriate also to Septuagesima Sunday.] GEN. i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth 175 SERMON X. ON THE CONSECRATION OF PLACES OF WORSHIP. [Preached after repairing and beautifying the Church.] EXOD. iii. 5. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground PAGE 195 SERMON XI. ON THE CRIMINALITY OF CORRUPTING OTHERS BY BAD EXAMPLE. ROм. xiv. 13. Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way SERMON XII. 215 ON THE DUTY OF AFFORDING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TO THE POOR. EXODUS ii. 9, 10. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son ... 241 SERMON I. OF THE NECESSITY OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. [Preached on possession being taken of the Benefice.] 2 PETER i. 12. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. THE various powers and faculties of the human mind have afforded matter for useful investigation to the learned and inquisitive of all ages. They have been defined and classed with the most laborious accuracy; their excellences and defects pointed out and illustrated; and methods have been recommended of strengthening the former and rectifying the latter; and there is no doubt but that all the powers of the human mind, when submitted to the discipline advised by those who have made that subject B |