ON The following SUBJECTS. Formerly printed separately in fingle Discourses, Now Collected into One VOLUME. The Duty of relieving the diftreffed Families of deceafed Clergymen. It is more bleffed to give than The neceflary Knowledge of The Parable of the Good An Apology for the Annual The Importance and Duties The Holinefs of Chriftian Churches, with the Propriety, Duty, and Benefit, of a Serious and Devout Behaviour therein. By THOMAS SHAR P, D. D. Late ARCHDEACON of Northumberland, and PREBENDARY of Durham. LONDON: Printed for ROBERT HORSFIELD, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street. 1763. SERMON I. Preached before the Sons of the Clergy at their Anniversary Meeting in St Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept. 7, 1721. Deut. xiv. 28, 29. At the End of three Years thou shalt bring forth all the Tythe of thine Increase the fame Year, and fhalt lay it up within thy Gates. And the Levite (because he hath no Part nor Inheritance with thee) and the Stranger, and the Fatherless, and the Widow, which are within thy Gates shall come and eat and be fatisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doeft. Page 1 SERMON II. Preached in the Parith-Church of All-Saints in Newcastle upon Tyne, on the Festival of All-Saints 1722. Being the Day for the Annual Annual Collection for the poor Children of the Charity-School, belonging to the faid Parish. Acts xx. 3. And to remember the Words of our Lord Jefus, how he faid, It is more blessed to give than to receive. SERMON III. Page 35 Preached at the Cathedral of York, May 29, 1727. I Cor. xi. 28. But let a Man examine himself, and so let him eat of that Bread, and drink of that Cup. Page 79 SERMON IV. CONCIO AD CLERUM, Habita in Ecclefia Sanctæ Mariæ Cantab. 14to Maij 1729. Pro Gradu Doctoratus in Sacra Theologia. Joh. vii. 17. Si quis voluerit Voluntatem ejus facere, cognofcet de Doctrina, utrum ex Deo fit, an ego à meipfo loquar. Page 135 Preached Preached at St Mary's in Cambridge before |