SERM. VII. Thankfulness for Mercies received, a necessary Duty. A Farewel Sermon, preached on board the Whita- ker, at Anchor near Savannah, in Georgia, Sunday, May 17, PSALM Cvii. 30, 31. Then are they glad, because they are at rest, and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, - - SERM. VIII. The Neceffity and Benefits of Religious So- ECCLES. iv. 9, 10, 11, 12. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe be to him that is alone when be falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand bim; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. SERM. IX. The Folly and Danger of not being righteous ECCLES. vii. 16. Be not righteous over-much, neither make- thyself over-wife: why shouldst thou destroy thyself? p. 123 SERM. X. A Preservative against unsettled Notions, and want of Principles, in regard to Righteousness and Chrif- tian Perfection. Being a more particular Answer to Doctor Trapp's four Sermons upon the fame Text. ECCLES. vii. 16. Be not righteous over-much, neither make thy- felf over-wife: why shouldst thou destroy thyself? SERM. XI. The Benefits of an early Piety. Preached at ECCLES. xii, I. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy SERM. XII. Chrift the Believer's Husband. And the viffel that he made of clay was marred in the hands of the potier, fo be made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to me. Saying, O house of Ifrael, cannot I do with you as this potter? faith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Ifrael. p. 197 SERM. XIV. The Lord our Righteousness. p. 216 * SERM. XV. The Righteousness of Christ an everlafting Righteousness. DAN. ix. 24. And to bring in everlasting righteousness. p. 235 SERM. XVI. The Observation of the Birth of Chrift, the Duty of all Christians; or the true Way of keeping Christmas. MATTHEW i. 21. And she shall bring forth a fon, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall Jave his people from their fins. P. 251 * SERM. XVII. The Temptation of Chrift. MATT. iv. 1-11. Then was Jefus led up of the spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil, &c. p. 262 SERM. XVIII. The Heinous Sin of profane Curfing and Swearing. MATT. v. 34. But I say unto you, Swear not at all. p. 276 SERM. XIX. Christ the Support of the Tempted. MATT. vi. 13. Lead us not into temptation. p. 287 SERM. XX. Worldly Business no Plea for the Neglect of Religion. MATT. viii. 22. Let the dead bury their dead. P. 299 SERM. XXI. Chrift the only Rest for the Weary and Heavy Laden. MATT. xi. 28. Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heav laden, and I will give you reft. p. 308 SERM. XXII. The Folly and Danger of parting with Chrift for the Pleasures and Profits of Life. MATT. viii. 23, to the End. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him, &c. P. 319 SERM. * SERM. XXIII. Marks of a True Converfion. : MATT. xviii. 3. Verily, I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. p. 336. MATT. XXV. 13. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day P-373. nor the hour in which the Son of man cometh. SERM. XXVI. The Eternity of Hell-Torments. MATT. XXV. 46. These shall go away into everlasting punishment. SERM. XXVII. Blind Bartimeus. P. 392 MARK X. 52. And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his fight, and followed Jesus in the way. SERM. XXVIII. Directions how to hear Sermons. LUKE viii. 18. Take heed, therefore, how ye bear. P. 404 p. 418 SERM. XXIX. The Extent and Reasonableness of SelfDenial. LUKE ix. 23. And he said unto them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself. * SERM. XXX. Christ's Transfiguration. p. 428 A LUKE ix. 28-36. And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray, &c. P. 440 SERM. XXXI. The Care of the Soul urged as the one thing needful. • LUKE X. 42. But one thing is needful. p. 456 SERMON SERMON I. The Seed of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent. GENESIS iii. 15. And I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and ber Seed; it shall bruise thy Head, and thou shalt bruise bis Heel. N reading to you these words, I may address you in the language of the holy angels to the shepherds, that were watching their flocks by night; "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy." For this is the first promise that was made of a Saviour to the apoftate race of Adam. We generally look for CHRIST only in the New Teftament; but chriftianity, in one sense, is very near as old as the creation. It is wonderful to observe how gradually God revealed his Son to mankind. He began with the promise in the text, and this the elect lived upon, till the time of Abraham. To him, God made further discoveries of his eternal council concerning man's redemption. Afterwards, at sundry times, and in divers manners, God spoke to the fathers by the prophets, till at length the LORD JESUS himself was manifested in flesh, and came and tabernacled amongst us. A 2 This This first promise must certainly be but dark to our first parents, in comparison of that great light which we enjoy: And yet, dark as it was, we may assure ourselves they built upon it their hopes of everlasting salvation, and by that faith were faved. How they came to stand in need of this promise, and what is the extent and meaning of it, I intend, God willing, to make the fubject-matter of your present meditation. The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it. The very heathens confeffed, and bewailed it: •They could fee the streams of corruption running through the whole race of mankind, but could not trace them to the fountain-head. Before God gave a revelation of his Son, man was a riddle to himself. And Mofes unfolds more, in this one chapter (out of which the text is taken) than all mankind could have been capable of finding out of themselves, though they had studied to all eternity. In the preceding chapter he had given us a full account, how God spoke the world into being; and especially how he formed man of the duft of the earth, and breathed into him the breath of life, so that he became a living foul. A council of the Trinity was called concerning the formation of this lovely creature. The result of that council was, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So GOD created man in his own image, in the image of Gop created he him." Mofes remarkably repeats these words, that we might take particular notice of our divine Original. Never was fo much expressed in fo few words: None but a man inspired could have done so. But it is remarkable, that though Mofes mentions our being made in the image of God, yet he mentions it but twice, and that in a tranfient manner; as though he would have said, " man was made in honour, God made " him upright, in the image of God, male and female "created he them.' But man fo foon fell, and became like "the beasts that perish, nay, like the devil himself, that it is "scarce worth mentioning." How foon man fell after he was created, is not told us; and therefore, to fix any time, is to be wife above what is written. And, I think, they who suppose that man fell the fame |