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THE Author takes this opportunity to thank the public for the liberality with which they have patronized, and the candor with which they have received his former publications. He had not intended to make any farther trial of their goodness in this way. But the opinion of some friends whose judg ment he values, that another volume would be useful, and the request of several gentlemen, that certain discourses on particular subjects, might see the light, either by themselves, or as a part of a volume, have induced him again to presume on the public candor. He has the rather been willing to comply with the advice of friends, as knowing that his time is short.An argument this, which they have pressed, and which he has felt. For this volume he has selected subjects which he thought highly important in themselves, and not unseasonable at the present time. He has aimed to treat them with perspicuity, and wishes they may merit the approbation of such as shall patronize them, and contribute to confirm the Faith and promote the Piety of all who may read them,

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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

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Enmity to the Gospel, the true Cause of Unbelief. John xv. 23, 23, 24.

IfI had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me, hateth my Father also, &c.

SERMON III,

Enmity to Religion in general, the natural consequence of Enmity to the Gospel.

The fame Text.

SERMON IV.

God to be glorified in all our Actions.

1 'Peter iv. 11.

That God in all things may be glorified.

SERMON V.

God's Goodness, the Hope of the Penitent, but по Security to the finally Impenitent.

Psalm cxix. 68.

Thou art good, and dost good; teach me thy statutes.

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SERMON VI.

The Spirit of the Lord not straitened,

Micah ii. 7.

Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened? &c.

SERMON VII.

The Sins and Miseries of Men, not God's doings, but their own.

Micah ii. 7.

Are these his doings, &c.

SERMON VIII.

The Prophecy concerning the two Witn esses ex

plained,

Revelation xi. 3-13.

* I will give power to my two Witnesses, &c.

SERMON IX.

The Prophecy improved.

SERMON X.

The renovation of all Things.

Revelation xxi. 5.

He that sat on the throne, said, Behold, I make all things

new.

SERMON XI.

Reflections on the Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch.

Acts viii. 39.

And he went his way rejoicing.

SERMON XII.

God to be worshipped in the Beauty of Holiness.

Pfalm xcvi. 9.

Qworship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

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