the word of God. If any unbecoming expressions have been unwarily adopted, such as might be omitted without weakening the matter, he hopes that this acknowledgment of its having been unintentional, will be received as a sufficient apology.

He is happy to avail himself of this opportunity publicly to express his deep sense of the kindness of his valuable and truly esteemed friend, Henry Drummond, Esq., (the High Sheriff,) in compliance with whose desire these Sermons are submitted to the Public.

Albury Rectory, Dec. 30, 1826.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come, Felix trembled.-Acts xxiv. 25.

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SERMON II.

NATIONAL DECLENSION FROM GOD, AND

NATIONAL WARNING.

Know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter,

that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that

my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of

And in the days of these Kings, shall the God of heaven

set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed.—

Daniel ii. 44.

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SERMON I.

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW.

ACTS xxiv. 25.

"And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled."

In the year sixty, or thereabouts, there occurred
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in the city of Jerusalem a very serious riot,
which proceeded to so great a degree of vio-
lence, that it became necessary to call in the
military to quell it. It was occasioned by a
dissention between two sects of the Jews, rela-
tive to some strange doctrines which had been
brought forward by a certain preacher of their
own, called Paul. Claudius Lysias was the
chief captain of the Roman soldiers at that time
quartered in Jerusalem. When he reached the
scene of the tumult, that party of the rioters
who were opposed to the preacher, had so far
gained the mastery, that they had seized upon
Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and were

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