SERMONS,

BY

HUGH BLAIR, D.D. F.R.S. Ed.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH,

AND

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND;

AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

1814.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

Strahan and Preston, Printers-Street, London.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

SERMON I.

On the Causes of Men's being weary of

Life.

JOB, X. I. My soul is weary of my life. Page 1

SERMON II.

On Charity as the End of the Com-

mandment.

1 TIMOTHY, i. 5. Now the end of the

commandment is charity, out of a pure

heart, and of a good conscience, and of

faith unfeigned.

SERMON III.

21

On our Lives being in the Hand of God.

[Preached at the Beginning of a New Year.]

PSALM XXXI. 15. My times are in thy

band.

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SERMON IV.

On the Mixture of Bad Men with the

Good in Human Society.

Let both grow to-

MATTHEW, xiii. 30

gether until the harvest.

SERMON V.

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On the Relief which the Gospel affords to

the Distressed.

[Preached at the Celebration of the Sacrament of the

Lord's Supper.]

ISAIAH, V. 12. The harp, and the viol, the

tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their

feasts; but they regard not the work of the

Lord, neither consider the operation of his

bands.

SERMON VII.

104

On the Presence of God in a Future State.

PSALM XVI. II. Thou wilt shew me the

path of life: In thy presence is fulness of

13

joy ;

JOHN, xxi. 21, 22. Peter seeing him, saith

to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man

do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that

be tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

Follow thou me.

SERMON IX.

144

On our present Ignorance of the Ways

of God.

JOHN, xiii. 7. Jesus answered, and said

unto him, What I do, thou knowest not

now, but thou shalt know hereafter. 163

SERMON X.

On the Slavery of Vice.

2 PETER, ii. 19. While they promise them

liberty, they themselves are the servants of

corruption; for of whom a man is over-

come, of the same is he brought in bondage.