SERMON LXXX, LXXXI. Heaven's Grand Repofitory; or, the Father's Love JOHN iii. 35. The Father loveth the Son, and bath given After an introduction unto, a divifion, and explication of the words, and laying down the doctrinal propofition, the following topics EZEK. xliii. 2. This is the Law of the Houfe; upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit thereof round about Shall be most holy; behold, this is the Law of the House. The words being viewed in their connection, analized, explained, 1. The house of God treated of, 2. The nature of that holiness, that is peculiar to the house of God, SER MON LXXXIII. The Little City befieged, and delivered: or, the Deliverance of the Church by Chrift, and the Ingratitude of Men to the glorious Redeemer, reprefented, 321 ECCL. ix. 14, 15. There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and befieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now, there was found in it a poor wife man, and be by his wifdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. The fenfe of the words being afcertained, accurately analized, and fummed up in a doctrine, the following general topics of difcourfe are profccuted, viz. 1. The little city, and the few men in it, described, 2. The great fiege laid againft the little city, opened, 3. The deliverance thereof, and the reasons of the fiege, 4. The ingratitude of the citizens represented, 325 328 332 339 344 358 5. The application of the whole, in feveral ufes, viz. of information, lamentation, trial, and exhortation, The Lamb in the midft of the Throne, REV. vii. 17. For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne fhall feed them. The words being viewed in their fcope and connection, divided, explained, and a doctrine obferved, the following topics are propofed, viz. 1. To fpeak a little concerning the Lamb, 2. To difcourfe fomewhat of the throne, 3. Enquire how the Lamb comes to be upon the throne; 362 364 366 4. What is imported in the Lamb's being in the midst of the throne, 368 5. Confider the benefit of feeding, that iffues from the Lamb's being in the midst of the throne, 6. To deduce fome inferences for the application,, A concluding word on Monday, SERMON LXXXV. Stability in the Faith, the Church's Strength, ISA. XXX. 7.—Their Strength is to fit ftill. 372 375 387 397 The author having taken a view of the words in their connection, analized, and explained them, and taken up their fcope in a doctrinal propofition, the following general heads of method-are profecute by him, viz. 1. What these times are, that may be called perilous times, in which people fhew much inftability in the faith, 2. The nature of ftedfaftness in the faith opened, 4. Inferences for the application of the whole, VOL. V. 401 409 430 434 |