ing their clearness and strength; and to af fift Persons in regarding the Works of God in a view, proper to raise their apprehenfions of the Divine Goodness, and to warm their hearts with an habitual sense of it, and engage them to live as always furrounded with the presence and kindness of the best of Parents, well affected to their brethren, alike children of the great Father of Spirits, cheerfully refigned amidst the trials of Life, and ferene and full of hope at death. This the Author can fay, that to the firm belief, and frequent meditation of those interesting truths, which are included in the boundless benevolence of our Creator and Governor, he himself has been obliged for the most valuable fatisfactions he hath known in life; and to these he owes it, that he can look forward to a future ftate with the nobleft hopes. And if the publication of the following Difcourfes fhall make these truths more cordially received, and their beneficial influence more felt, he fhall greatly rejoice in the time and thought employed for thefe purposes. Whatever the event be, he he has the Satisfaction of having, according to his abilities, endeavoured to ferve the Honour of his Maker, and the best interest of his fellow creatures; and can therefore humbly commend thefe, with the other Difcourfes on like important fubjects, to the Divine Bleffing, and to the candid perufal of the serious and judicious. CON SERMON I. The Divine Goodness explained. PSALM CXlV. 9. The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. Page 1 SERMON II. Goodness proved to be a Divine Perfection. The fame text. SERMON III. The Goodness of God as Creator illustrated in various inftances. The 29 fame text. 55 SERMON IV. The creation of mankind a glorious inftance and proof of the Divine Benevolence. PSALM viii. 5. Thou haft made him a little lower than the angels, and haft crowned him with glory and honour. SERMON V. The Creator's goodness illuf 89 trated in various laws of the human con ftitution. The fame text. 123 SERMON VI. The goodness of Divine Providence to mankind in particular. 153 MATTH. V. 45. He maketh his fun to rife on the evil and on the good; and fendeth rain on the juft and on the unjust. SERMON VII. The goodness of Divine Providence to finners. The fame text. SERMON VIII. The grace of God in the redemption of a finful world by Jefus Chrift. EPHES. ii. 5. By grace are ye faved— 215 SERMON IX. The fame fubject. 185 245 SER SERMON XI. Of Moral Evil, and that the permiffion of it is confiftent with the Di- JAMES I. 13, 14. Let no man fay when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither temp- teth he any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his SERMON XII. The Objection of the Abun- dance of Moral Evil farther urged and anfwered. The same text. 329 SERMON XIII. Natural Evil, and the pu- HEB. xii. 10. For they verily for a few days chaftened us after their own plea- fure; but he for our profit, that we might SERMON XIV. Doctrinal inferences from SERMON XV. Practical inferences from the Divine Benevolence. The fame text. 405 SERMON XVI. The fame fubject conti nued. 427 SERMON XVII. The Evidences for a future State. MARK X. 17. And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Mafter, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? SERMON XVIII. Farther Evidences fupplied by Reafon for a Future State. The fame 465 text. 449 SERMON XIX. Of the Necefity there is that we do the Work of God. The fame text. 480 SERMON XX. The Difpofitions with which we should inquire the Way to eternal Life. The fame text. 500 SERMON XXI. Chrift the best Guide to eternal Life. JOHN vi. 68, 69. Then Simon Peter anfwered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou haft the words of eternal life. And we believe, and are fure, that thou art the Chrift, the Son of the living God. 516 SERMON XXII. The fame fubject. 536 Note, Sermon XX is printed XXII. SER |