OCCASIONAL

SERMONS

BY

THE REV. R. MOREHEAD, A. M.

OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD; JUNIOR MINISTER OF ST PAUL'S CHAPEL, YORK PLACE, EDINBURGH; AND DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE AND PRINCE LEOPOLD OF SAXE COBOURG.

HIO

EDINBURGH :

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH;

AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. LONDON.

1825.

18670

TO THE HONOURABLE

WILLIAM FULLARTON ELPHINSTONE,

FORMERLY CHAIRMAN,

AND ONE OF THE PRESENT DIRECTORS

OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY,

&c. &c. &c.

THIS VOLUME

IS INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR,

BOTH AS A TRIBUTE OF PUBLIC RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

AND AS

AN HUMBLE MEMORIAL OF FAMILY FRIENDSHIP,

AND INDIVIDUAL GRATITUde.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

On the Death of the Princess Charlotte.

ST JOHN, xiv. 1.

Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, be-

lieve also in me,

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SERMON II.

On the Consolations of Religion amidst Human

Fears and Sorrows.

ISAIAH, xl. 6.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?

All flesh is grass,

SERMON III.

On the Dedication of Places of Public Worship.

GENESIS, XXviii. 18.

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And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the

stone that he had put up for his pillows, and set it up

for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it; and he

called the name of that place Bethel, .

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