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RECOMMENDATIONS. 
 
 The Rev. Abraham C. Baldwin has shown me a work, 
 prepared with much care and labor, which in my opinion will 
 be of great utility — an extensive collection of distinct subjects 
 for the pulpit, arranged under a few general heads for greater 
 convenience. 
 
 The design is to aid ministers in selecting interesting and: 
 appropriate topics for discussion ; by summoning before them 
 in one view, and at small expense, those which lie scattered in 
 many volumes of the published productions of the pulpit. It is 
 a work, which, if I do not greatly mistake, all the licentiates from 
 our Theological Schools, and all our settled Clergymen who 
 are not furnished with extensive libraries, will be ready to take : 
 from which I am sure they will derive benefit far beyond the 
 price which they w T ill have to pay. 
 
 ELEAZAR T. FITGH. 
 
 New- Haven, Yale College, April 10th, 1841. 
 
 We cordially concur in the views expressed above. 
 
 JOEL HA WES, 
 CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH, 
 THOMAS H. SKINNER, 
 HENRY WHITE. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Baldwin having favoured me with a com- 
 munication of his plan of a small work for the use of Clergy- 
 men, suggesting topics and texts for discourses, I have great, 
 pleasure in expressing my opinion in favour of the utility of his 
 design, and of the manner in which he has carried it into 
 execution. JAMES MILNOR. 
 
 The Plan of the Rev. Mr. Baldwin and the manuscript of 
 his work have been exhibited to me, and I take pleasure in 
 being allowed to add my name in commendation to those above 
 given. It should be observed that it is not a book of Skeletons, 
 but of topics on which the mind of the Preacher must be itself 
 exercised, and it is certainly the more valuable on that account. 
 I cheerfully recommend it. 
 
 THOMAS E. VERMILYE. 
 
 In the above we fully concur. 
 
 GARDINER SPRING, 
 THOMAS DEWITT, 
 SPENCER H. CONE. 
 
2 RECOMMENDATIONS. 
 
 The plan of Mr. Baldwin's book meets my cordial approba- 
 tion, though I have had but a limited opportunity to examine 
 the execution of it. Judging from the few pages submitted to 
 me. I think it will be a useful publication. 
 
 NATHAN BANGS. 
 
 The subscriber feels inclined to favour every thing which is 
 adapted to facilitate the labours of clergymen, especially those 
 of them who are young, and comparatively inexperienced. 
 They, undoubtedly, often lose much time, and are subjected to 
 much perplexity, in the choice of subjects for the Pulpit at once 
 appropriate and sufficiently varied. In this view Mr. Baldwin's 
 publication may be of no small use to those who have few books, 
 and but little experience in the composition of sermons. The 
 only fear is, that many who use this work, will not content them- 
 selves with having a topic suggested by Mr. B.'s book ; but will 
 be betrayed, unwarily, by this labour-saving machine, into the 
 habit of resorting too largely to others for help in composition, 
 as well as in the selection of topics ; — a habit so full of mischief, 
 both to preachers and hearers, that it is not easy to find terms 
 sufficiently strong for warning against it. If those who may 
 make use of the proposed publication should have sufficient de- 
 cision of character to avoid this evil, they may be greatly ac- 
 commodated by Mr. Baldwin's work. Such are the impres- 
 sions which have been made on the mind of the subscriber by a 
 glance at the first printed sheet of the proposed compilation. 
 
 SAMUEL MILLER. 
 
 Princeton, April 30th : 1841. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 The design of this book is obvious from its title. 
 There are few clergymen who have not at times found it 
 more difficult to select an interesting and useful subject for 
 a discourse, than to prepare a sermon after a suitable sub- 
 ject had been found. To afford timely assistance to his 
 brethren in such circumstances, has been the object of the 
 compiler in preparing the present work. 
 
 The plan pursued is different, it is believed, from any 
 thing of the kind hitherto attempted. There have been pub- 
 lished at different times, books containing Skeletons, or 
 Outlines of Sermons, for the use of those who are either 
 incompetent, or too indolent to frame a discourse without 
 assistance. But such helps as these, are far worse than 
 useless ; they serve to destroy the inventive powers of the 
 preacher, and make of him a complete drone. A clergyman 
 who prepares his discourses by merely filling up plans made 
 by others, ceases to respect himself, and so far as his prac- 
 tice is known, loses the respect of the community; and 
 what is still worse, he will be likely to starve his hearers. 
 Discourses thus composed will w T ant unction, — their several 
 parts, being made up by different minds of diverse habits of 
 thinking and feeling, will be as incongruous as the iron 
 and the clay in Nebuchadnezzar's image. Such books 
 ought to be banished at once from every clergyman's 
 Library, unless a very different use is made of them from 
 that intended by their authors. If a preacher is really 
 unable to prepare a discourse unless the framework is 
 constructed to his hands, it is incumbent on him to pause, 
 and seriously inquire whether he has not mistaken his 
 
4 PREFACE. 
 
 calling. If he is too indolent to do it, there is reason to 
 fear that he has mistaken not only his calling, but his own 
 heart. 
 
 As this book furnishes nothing but Subjects and Texts, 
 it is believed that, without affording any temptation or 
 even facilities for being indolent, it will often be of essen- 
 tial service to the preacher, by suggesting interesting and 
 important trains of thought which he will carry out inde- 
 pendently, and which will be wholly his own. Some of 
 the greatest and happiest efforts of the human mind have 
 owed their origin to a single thought suggested by another 
 mind, or to a striking text of Scripture. The intellectual 
 powers are frequently stimulated to vigorous action upon 
 the mere announcement of an interesting and appropriate 
 theme. 
 
 There are here presented nearly three thousand subjects 
 for the pulpit, most of which have been already discussed 
 with much interest and profit by able divines. This latter 
 circumstance, however, does not constitute the least objec- 
 tion to their being discussed again by other minds. Sub- 
 jects and Texts (but not Skeletons) are common properly. 
 A preacher may discourse on a topic which others have 
 canvassed before him with just as much of originality and 
 profit as if he were the first person who made it a theme 
 for the pulpit. There is one consideration in favour of a 
 subject that has been once discussed with interest in the 
 desk, and that is, the preacher may know that his theme 
 has sufficient scope for a sermon, as it has been success- 
 fully tested. 
 
 The subjects in this volume are arranged, it will be 
 perceived, with reference to convenience, and not to the 
 order in which they should follow each other in a Theo- 
 logical System. 
 
PREFACE. O 
 
 As it is frequently desirable to preach a number of 
 sermons on the same general subject, there are appended 
 several valuable Series, which may serve to assist the 
 preacher in planning courses of Lectures for himself. 
 
 Permission has been kindly granted to insert the Ana- 
 lysis of Dwight's Theology. There are here given, at one 
 view, the topics of a complete body of Divinity, logically 
 arranged. Although most clergymen probably have this 
 invaluable work in their Libraries, they may still find it 
 convenient to have the Analysis of it in a small volume 
 designed to lie upon their study-table. 
 
 Most of the subjects have connected with them ap- 
 propriate texts of Scripture. In some few cases, however, 
 the appropriateness of the texts given, and the correctness 
 of their interpretation, may with propriety be questioned. 
 The compiler wishes it to be distinctly understood that he 
 takes no part of the responsibility of the interpretation of 
 the texts quoted in this volume, but throws it entirely upon 
 the authors of the discourses from whom the subjects are 
 taken. The student should in all cases examine the inter- 
 pretation of a text for himself before using it as the foun- 
 dation of a discourse. 
 
 It was the compiler's intention, when he commenced 
 this work, to place in the margin against each subject, the 
 names of various authors who had written upon it; but 
 as this was aside from his main design, and found to be 
 the occasion of much inconvenience and delay in preparing 
 the work for the press, it was thought best to abandon this 
 part of the plan. Except in a few cases, therefore, the 
 name of that author only is given from whose productions 
 the subject was selected. Provision is made, by leaving a 
 wide margin, for adding with a pen or pencil other names, 
 as the owner of the book may see fit. 
 
6 PREFACE. 
 
 Occasionally the name of an author has been omitted 
 in the margin through inadvertence. 
 
 It is not pretended that this book contains all those 
 subjects which are profitable for pulpit discussion. It is 
 presumed that every Pastor keeps a blank book in which 
 he enters from time to time topics appropriate to the spir- 
 itual wants of his people, which are suggested to him in 
 his reading, conversation, and pastoral labours. This col- 
 lection is by no means intended to supersede the necessity 
 of his keeping such a book. The blank leaves bound up 
 with this volume are designed for him to use for this pur- 
 pose. In this part of the book he can add subjects as they 
 occur to him, arranged either according to the plan of the 
 preceding pages, or according to a plan of his own. 
 
 To his younger brethren in the sacred office, the com- 
 piler trusts this work will be particularly useful. It will 
 serve not only to help them to a subject for a discourse 
 occasionally, but it will give them some idea of the vast 
 field of discussion that lies before them, which they some- 
 times may have regarded as in a measure circumscribed. 
 
 Theological students when leaving the seminary will 
 find this volume, it is believed, of considerable utility as 
 they enter upon the arduous duties of the ministry. 
 
 To the Clergy generally of all evangelical denomina- 
 tions, this work is respectfully and affectionately submitted. 
 If it serve to assist them in their studies — to give greater 
 variety to their preaching — and in time of need to give an 
 impulse to their minds in a profitable direction, the labour 
 of preparing it will not have been spent in vain. That it 
 may facilitate their labours in feeding the church of God, 
 and winning souls to Christ, is the sincere prayer of their 
 brother and fellow labourer, A. C. BALDWIN. 
 
 Mew-York, May 1st, 1841. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page. 
 
 Subjects Relating to God - - - - - 9 
 
 « " Christ 27 
 
 " « Holy Spirit 51 
 
 " " Word of God 55 
 
 " " Sabbath 60 
 
 " Appropriate to Man as a Being 64 
 
 " " " Sinner 116 
 
 " " « Christian 160 
 
 ♦ c " in his Social Relations ----- 220 
 
 " " to the Communion - 222 
 
 " « « Fast --------- 226 
 
 « " " Thanksgiving ----- 230 
 
 " « " New Year 233 
 
 " " M Ordination 235 
 
 " " « Dedication ------ 245 
 
 h « « Funeral ------- 247 
 
 « " " Temperance ------ 254 
 
 " " " Benevolence 256 
 
 Miscellaneous Subjects ------ 262 
 
 Series of Subjects on Prayer --- 299 
 
 " « Hearing the Word 299 
 
 * " The Lord's Prayer 300 
 
 From the Parables - 300 
 
 « Miracles - - - - - 303 
 
 Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity ------ 306 
 
 " to Young Men - 310 
 
 " " Youth 311 
 
 " on Revivals ------------313 
 
 System of Theology - - - - 317 
 
SUBJECTS FOR SERMONS 
 
 SUBJECTS RELATING TO GOD. 
 
 Barrow. The Being of God proved from the 
 
 Frame of the World. 
 
 Jer. 51: 15. He hath made the earth by 
 his power, he hath established the world 
 by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the 
 heaven by his understanding. 
 
 Barrow. The Being of God proved from the 
 
 Frame of Human Nature. 
 
 Gen. 1: 27. So God created man in his 
 own image. 
 
 Barrow. The Being of God proved from Uni- 
 versal Consent. 
 
 Ps. 19: 3. There is no speech, nor lan- 
 guage, where their voice is not heard. 
 
 Barrow. The Being of God proved from Su- 
 pernatural Effects. 
 
 John 5: 17. But Jesus answered them, My 
 Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 
 
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 Saurin. 
 
 GOD. 
 
 Eternity of God. 
 
 2 Pet. 3: 8. But, beloved, be not ignorant 
 of this one thing, that one day is with the 
 Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand 
 years as one day. 
 
 Saurin. Omnipresence of God. 
 
 Ps. 139: 7-12. Whither shall I go from 
 vthy Spirit)! whither shall I flee from thy pre- 
 sence 1 If I ascend up into heaven, thou 
 ■art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, 
 thou art there. If I take the wings of the 
 morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts 
 of the sea ; even there shall thy hand lead 
 me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I 
 say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, 
 even the night shall be light about me. Yea, 
 the darkness hideth not from thee, but the 
 night shineth as the day : the darkness and 
 the light are both alike to thee. 
 
 Saurin. The Grandeur of God. 
 
 Isa. 40: 12-28. Who hath measured out 
 the waters in the hollow of his hand, &c. 
 
 Saurin. The Greatness of God's Wisdom and 
 
 Power. 
 
 Isa. 32: 19. Great in counsel, and mighty 
 in work. 
 
 Saurin. The Holiness of God. 
 
 Lev. 19: 2. Ye shall be holy: for I the 
 Lord your God am holy. 
 
GOD. 
 
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 Saurin. The Compassion of God. 
 
 Ps. 103: 13. Like as a father pitieth his 
 children, so the Lord pitieth. them that fear 
 him. 
 
 Saurin. The Incomprehensibility of God's 
 
 Mercy. 
 
 Isa. 55: 8. 9. For my thoughts are not your 
 thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, 
 saith the Lord. For as the heavens are 
 higher than the earth, so are my ways 
 higher than your ways, and my thoughts 
 than your thoughts. 
 
 Saurin. The Severity of God 
 
 Heb. 12: 29. For our God is a consuming 
 fire. 
 
 Saurin. The Patience of God with Wicked 
 Nations-. 
 
 Gen. 15: 16. The iniquity of the Amorites 
 is not yet full. 
 
 Saurin. The Long-Sufferihg of God with In- 
 dividuals. 
 
 Eccl. 8: 11, 12. Because sentence against 
 an evil work is not executed speedily, 
 therefore the heart of the sons of men is 
 fully set in them to do evil. 
 2 Pet. 3: 9. The Lord is net slack con- 
 
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 GOD. 
 
 cerning his promise, as some men count 
 slackness ; but is long-suffering to us-ward, 
 not willing that any should perish, but that 
 all should come to repentance. 
 
 Saurin. God the only Object of Fear. 
 
 Jer. 10: 7. Who would not fear thee, O 
 King of nations 1 for to thee doth it apper- 
 forasmuch as among all the wise men 
 
 tain 
 
 of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, 
 there is none like unto thee. 
 
 Saurin. The Uniformity of God in his Gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 Heb. 13: 8. Jesus Christ, the same yester- 
 day, to-day, and forever. 
 
 Saurin. The Deep Things of God. 
 
 Rom. 11: 33. O the depth of the riches 
 both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! 
 how unsearchable are his judgments, and 
 his ways past finding out ! 
 
 Porter. The Immutability of God. 
 
 Ex. 3: 14. And God said unto Moses, I 
 AM THAT 1 AM. 
 
 Richards. God a Great King. 
 
 Mai. 1: 14. For I am a great king, saith 
 the Lord of hosts. 
 
GOD. 
 
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 E. Pond. God's Works originally Perfect. 
 
 Gen. 1: 31. And God saw every thing 
 that he had made, and, behold, it was very- 
 good. 
 
 E. Pond. The Divine Dispensations Progres- 
 sive. 
 
 Mark 4: 28. First the blade, then the ear,, 
 after that the full corn in the ear. 
 
 Emmons. The Moral Rectitude of God. 
 
 Gen. 18: 25. That be far from thee to do 
 after this manner, to slay the righteous with, 
 the wicked: and that the righteous should 
 be as the wicked, that be far from thee : 
 Shall not the judge of all the earth do 
 right 1 
 
 Ajppleton. God's Ways Equal. 
 
 Ezek. 18: 25. Yet ye say, The way of the 
 Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of 
 Israel, Is not my way equal] are not your 
 ways unequal 1 
 
 Jay. God the Best of Fathers. 
 
 Matt. 7: 11. If ye then being evil, know 
 how to give gsood gifts unto your children, 
 how much more shall your. Father which is 
 in heaven give good things to them that 
 ask him 1 
 
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14 GOD. 
 
 Jay. The Eye of God always upon us. 
 
 Gen. 16: 13. Thou God seest me. 
 
 Jay. A Forgiving God. 
 
 Neh. 9: 17. A God ready to pardon. 
 
 Jay. The Safe Guide. 
 
 Ps. 107: 7, And he led them forth by the 
 right way, that they might go to a city of 
 habitation. 
 
 Jay. God Thinks upon his People. 
 
 Ps. 40: 17. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. 
 
 C. Coffin. God entitled to Obedience. 
 
 Ex. 5: 2. Who is the Lord, that I should 
 obey his voice 3 . 
 
 Edwards. Practical Atheism. 
 
 Eph. 11: 12. Without God in the world. 
 
 Sprague. The God of the Christian and the 
 God of the Infidel. 
 
 Ps. 86: 8. Among the gods there is none 
 
GOD. 15 
 
 like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there 
 any works like unto thy works. 
 
 J. Hawes. The Goodness of God fitted to lead 
 
 Men to Repentance. 
 
 Rom. 2: 4. Or despisest thou the riches of 
 his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suf- 
 fering ; not knowing that the goodness of 
 God leadeth thee to repentance % 
 
 Griffin. The Knowledge of God. 
 
 Col. 1: 10. Increasing in the knowledge of 
 God. 
 
 Emmons. God is Governed by Goodness in 
 all his Conduct. 
 
 Ps. 1J9: 68. For thou art good, and doest 
 good. 
 
 Emmons. The Revealed Will of God the 
 
 only Rule of Duty. 
 
 Deut. 29: 29. The secret things belong unto 
 the Lord our God j but those things which 
 are revealed belong unto us and to our chil- 
 dren forever, that we may do all the words 
 of this law. 
 
 Emmons. The Supreme Being the only Proper 
 Object of Religious Worship. 
 Rev. 19: 10. And I fell at his feet to wor- 
 
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 GOD. 
 
 ship him. And he said unto me, See thou 
 do it not : I am thy fellow-servant, and of 
 thy brethren that have the testimony of Je- 
 sus: worship God. 
 
 Emmons. Divine Particular Providence. 
 
 Matt. 6: 30. Wherefore, if God so clothe 
 the grass of the field, which to day is, and 
 to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not 
 much more clothe you, ye of little faith ! 
 
 Emmons. The Being and Perfections of God. 
 
 Heb. 3: 4. For every house' is builded by 
 some man: hut he that built all things is 
 God. 
 
 Emmons. Affections Essential to the Moral 
 Perfection of Deity. 
 
 1 John 4: 8. For God is love. 
 
 Davies, The Divine Mercy to Mourning 
 Penitents. 
 
 JeT. 31: 18—20. I have surely heard Eph- 
 raim bemoaning himself thus ; Thou hast 
 chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bul- 
 lock unaccustomed to the yoke : turn thou 
 me, and I shall be turned ; for thou art the 
 Lord my God. Surely after that I was 
 turned, I repented ; and after that I was 
 instructed, I smote upon my thigh : I was 
 
GOD. 
 
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 ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I 
 did bear the reproach of my youth. Is 
 Ephraim my dear son 1 is he a pleasant 
 child 1 for since I spake against him, I do 
 earnestly remember him still : therefore my 
 bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely 
 have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. 
 
 Da vies. The Divine Government a Cause of 
 Beecher. Joy. 
 
 Ps. 97: 1. The Lord reigneth, let the 
 earth rejoice j let the multitude of isles be 
 glad thereof. 
 Matt. 6: 10. Thy will be done. 
 
 Da vies. Love the Essence of Deity. 
 1 John 4>: 18. God is.love. 
 
 Da vies. God the Sovereign of all Kingdoms. 
 
 Dan. 4: 25. That they shall drive thee from 
 men, and thy dwelling shall be with the 
 beasts of the field, and they shall make thee 
 to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet 
 thee with the dew of heaven, and seven 
 times shall pass over thee, till thou know 
 that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom 
 of men, and givethitto whomsoever he will. 
 
 C. Lee. The Divine Clemency. 
 
 Ps. 86: 5. For thou, Lord, art good, and 
 ready to forgive ; and plenteous in mercy 
 unto all them that call upon thee. 
 
18 GOD. 
 
 R. Hall. On the Being and Name of Jehovah. 
 
 Ex. 3: 14. And God said unto Moses, I 
 AM THAT I AM: and he said, thus shalt 
 thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM 
 hath sent me unto you. 
 
 R. Hall. God the Source of Wisdom. 
 
 James 1: 5. If any of.you lack wisdom let 
 him ask of God. 
 
 R. Hall. The Spirituality of the Divine Na- 
 ture. 
 
 Isa. 31: 3. Now the Egyptians are men, 
 and not God,. and their horses flesh, and 
 not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch 
 out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, 
 and he that is holpen shall fall down, and 
 they all shall fall together. 
 
 R. Hall. The Glory of God in Concealing. 
 
 Prov. 25: 2. It is the glory of God to con- 
 ceal a thing. 
 
 R. Hall. God's Ways though Inscrutable are 
 Righteous and Just. 
 
 Ps. 97: 2. Clouds and darkness are round 
 about him ; righteousness and judgment are 
 the habitation of his throne. 
 
GOD. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 The Ground of God's Final Deci- 
 sion. 
 
 Gal. 6: 7, S. Be not deceived, God is not 
 mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that 
 shall he also reap. For he that soweth to 
 his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; 
 hut he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the 
 Spirit reap life everlasting. 
 
 God's gift of his Son a ground for ex- 
 pecting every other Blessing. 
 
 Rom. 8: 32. He that spared not his own 
 Son, but delivered him up for us all, how 
 shall he not with him also freely give us 
 all things 1 
 
 God's Compassion. 
 
 Hos. 11: 8. How shall I give thee up, 
 Ephraiml how shall I deliver thee, Israeli 
 how shall I make thee as Admah 1 how shall 
 I set thee as Zeboim % my heart is turned 
 within me, my repentings are kindled to- 
 gether. 
 
 Simeon. The Stability of God's Covenant. 
 
 2 Tim. 2: 19. Nevertheless the founda- 
 tion of God standeth sure, having this 
 the Lord knoweth them that are his. 
 
 Simeon. God will Fulfil his Word. 
 
 Num. 23: 19. God is not a man, that he 
 should lie ; neither the son of man, that 
 he should repent : hath he said, and shall 
 
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 GOD. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall 
 he not make it good X 
 
 Simeon. God sees our Inmost Thoughts. 
 
 Heb. 4: 13. All things are naked and open 
 unto the eyes of him with whom we have 
 to do. 
 
 Simeon. God the Source of all Good. 
 
 James 1: 17. Every good gift and every 
 perfect gift is from above, and cometh down 
 from the Father of lights, with whom is no 
 variableness, neither shadow of turning. 
 
 God Delights in Saving Sinners. 
 
 Zeph. 3: 17. The Lord thy God in the 
 midst of thee w mighty ; he will save, he 
 will rejoice over thee with joy ; he will 
 rest in his love, he will joy over thee with 
 singing. 
 
 Simeon. The Abundant Grace of God. 
 
 Rom. 5: 20, 21. Moreover the law entered, 
 that the offence might abound. But where 
 sin abounded, grace did much more abound. 
 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even 
 so might grace reign through righteous- 
 ness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. 
 
 Simeon. God's Readiness to give his Spirit. 
 
 Luke 11: 13. If ye then being evil, know 
 
GOD. 
 
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 how to give good gifts unto your children ; 
 how much more shall your heavenly Father 
 give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him 1 
 
 Simeon, The Manner in which God draws 
 
 his People. 
 
 Hos. 11: 4. I drew them with cords of a 
 man, with bands of love. 
 
 Simeon. The Loving-Kindness of God. 
 
 Ps. 36: 7. How excellent is thy loving- 
 kindness, O God! therefore the children 
 of men put their trust under the shadow of 
 thy wings. 
 
 Simeon. The End for which God sent his Son. 
 
 John 3: 17. For God sent not his Son into 
 the world to condemn the world ; but that 
 the world through him might be saved. 
 
 Simeon. God's Distinguished Regard for the 
 
 Poor. 
 
 James 2: 5. Hearken, my beloved brethren, 
 Hath not God chosen the poor of this world 
 rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which 
 he hath promised to them that love him % 
 
 Simeon. The Majesty and Holiness of God. 
 
 Isa. 57: 15. For thus saith the high and 
 
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 GOD. 
 
 lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose 
 name is Holy ; I dwell in the high and holy 
 place. 
 
 Simeon. God's Paths are Mercy and Truth. 
 
 Ps. 25: 10. All the paths of the Lord are 
 mercy and truth unto such as keep his cov- 
 enant and his testimonies. 
 
 Simeon. God's Method of Dealing with his 
 People. 
 
 Zech. 13:9. And I will bring the third part 
 through the fire, and will refine them as sil- 
 ver is refined, and will try them as gold is 
 tried : they shall call on my name, and I will 
 hear them. I will say, It is my people, and 
 they shall say, The Lord is my God. 
 
 Simeon. God's Sympathy with his People. 
 
 Zech. 2: 8. He that toucheth you touca eth 
 the apple of his eye. 
 
 Simeon. God's Care for the Righteous. 
 
 Prov. 10: 3. The Lord will not suffer the 
 soul of the righteous to famish. 
 
 Simeon. The Stability of God's Promises. 
 
 2 Cor. 1: 20. For all the promises of God 
 
GOD. 
 
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 in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the 
 glory of God by us. 
 
 Simeon. God a Sure Defence. 
 
 Prov. 18: 10. The name of the Lord is 
 a strong tower, the righteous runneth into 
 
 it, and is safe. 
 
 Simeon. The Ways of God Unfolded. 
 
 John 13: 7. Jesus answered and said unto 
 him, What 1 do thou knowest not now j but 
 thou shalt know hereafter. 
 
 Smalley. On the Indiscriminate Dispensations 
 of Providence. 
 
 Eccl. 9: 2. All things come alike to all: 
 there is one event to the righteous and to 
 the wicked ; to the good, and to the clean, 
 and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, 
 and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the 
 good, so is the sinner ; and he that swear- 
 eth, as he that feareth an oath. 
 
 Smalley. God, the Author of Afflictions and 
 Troubles. 
 
 Job 5: 6, 7. Although affliction cometh 
 not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble 
 spring out of the ground ; yet man is born 
 unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 
 
24 GOD. 
 
 Smalley. God's Pleasure is not to Afflict. 
 
 Lam. 3: 33. For he doth not afflict willingly 
 nor grieve the children of men. 
 
 Smalley. God to be Worshipped in the Beauty 
 of Holiness. 
 
 Ps. 96: 9. O worship the Lord in the beauty 
 of holiness : fear before him, all the earth. 
 
 Lathrop. The Wheels of Providence. 
 
 Ezek. 1: 16. The appearance of the wheels 
 and their work was like unto the colour of 
 a beryl : and they four had one likeness : 
 and their nppearance and their work was as 
 it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 
 
 Lathrop. God works for his own Name's sake. 
 
 Ezek. 36: 32. Not for your sakes do I this, 
 saith the Lord God, be it known unto you. 
 
 Lathrop. God Glorified in the General Judg- 
 ment. 
 
 2 Thess. 1: 10. When he shall come to be 
 glorified in his saints, and to be admired in 
 all them that believe. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Secret Things belong to God. 
 
 Deut. 29: 29. The secret things belong 
 unto the Lord our God ; but those things 
 
GOD. .25 
 
 which are revealed belong unto us and to our 
 children forever, that we may do all the 
 words of this law. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. God to be Believed rather than 
 Men. 
 
 Rom. 3: 4. Let God be true and every man 
 a liar. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. God's Ways not our Ways. 
 
 Isa. 55: 8, 9. For my thoughts are not your 
 thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, 
 saith the Lord. For as the heavens are 
 higher than the earth, so are my ways higher 
 than your ways, and my thoughts than your 
 thoughts. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Parental Character of God. 
 
 Eph. 5: 1. Be ye therefore followers of 
 God, as dear children. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Most High a Prayer- 
 HearingGod. 
 
 Ps. 65: 2. O thou that hearest prayer, unto 
 thee shall all flesh come. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. God Glorified in Man's Depen- 
 dence. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 29 — 31. That no flesh should 
 glory in his presence. But of him are ye 
 in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto 
 us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctifi- 
 3* 
 
26 GOD. 
 
 cation, and redemption : that, according 
 as it is written, He that glorieth, let him 
 glory in the Lord. 
 
 N. Porter. God the Strength of his People. 
 
 Isa. 40: 29. He giveth power to the faint ; 
 and to them that have no might he increas- 
 eth strength. 
 
SUBJECTS RELATING TO CHRIST. 
 Barrow. Jesus is the True Messiah. 
 
 Acts 9: 22. Proving that this is the Christ. 
 
 Appleton. Christ's Universal Reign. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 25. For he must reign, till he 
 hath put all enemies under his feet. 
 
 Jay. The End of the Saviour's Exalta- 
 
 tion. 
 
 Acts 5: 31. Him hath God exalted with 
 his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, 
 for to give repentance to Israel, and for- 
 giveness of sins. 
 
 Jay. Christ the Bread of Life. 
 
 John 6: 35. And Jesus said unto them, I am 
 the bread of life : he that eometh to me 
 shall never hunger ; and he that believeth 
 on me shall never thirst. 
 
 Jay. The Unspeakable Gift. 
 
 Rom. 8: 32. He that spared not his own 
 Son, but delivered him up for us all, how 
 shall he not with him also freely give us all 
 things 1 
 
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 Jay. The Love of Christ. 
 
 Eph. 3: 19. And to know the love of Christ, 
 which passeth knowledge, that ye might be 
 filled with all the fulness of God. 
 
 Jay. The Water of Life. 
 
 John 4: 14. But whosoever drinketh of 
 the water that I shall give him shall never 
 thirst ; but the water that I shall give him 
 shall be in him a well of water spinging up 
 into everlasting life. 
 
 Jay. The Star Guiding the Wise Men. 
 
 Mat. 2: 1, 2. Now when Jesus was born in 
 Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod 
 the king, behold, there came wise men from 
 the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he 
 that is born King of the Jews 1 for we have 
 seen his star in the east, and are come to 
 worship him. 
 
 Jay. The Fountain of Life. 
 
 Zech. 13: 1. In that day there shall be 
 a fountain opened to the house of David 
 and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for 
 sin and for uncleanness. 
 
 Jay. The Saviour's Grace in its Free- 
 
 ness and Effects. 
 
 1 Tim. 1: 14. And the grace of our Lord 
 was exceeding abundant, with faith and love 
 which is in Christ Jesus. 
 
CHRIST. 
 
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 Payson. The Second Coming of the Son of 
 Man. 
 
 Mat. 24: 37. But as the days of Noe were, 
 so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 
 
 Payson. The Second Advent of Christ desi- 
 rable to his People. 
 
 Phil. 3: 20. From whence also we look for 
 the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 J. Tracy. The Example of Christ in Self- 
 
 Denial. 
 
 Phil. 2: 5. Let this mind be in you, which 
 was also in Christ Jesus. 
 
 Saurin. Variety of Opinions about Christ. 
 
 Mat. 16: 14. And they said, Some say thai 
 thou art John the Baptist : some, Elias ; and 
 others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 
 
 Saurin. The Little Success of Christ's Min- 
 istry. 
 
 Rom. 10: 21. But to Israel he saith, All 
 day long I have stretched forth my hands 
 unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. 
 
 Griswold. Christ the Divine and only Saviour. 
 Isa. 45: 22. Look unto me, and be ye saved. 
 
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 Pierce. 
 
 CHRIST. 
 
 Jesus Weeping over Sinners. 
 
 Luke 19: 41, 42. And when he was come 
 near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 
 saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, 
 at least in this thy day, the things which 
 belong unto thy peace ! but now they are 
 hid from thine eyes. 
 
 Jay. Christ's Family. 
 
 Mat. 12: 49, 50. And he stretched forth 
 his hand toward his disciples, and said, 
 Behold my mother and my brethren ! For 
 whosoever shall do the will of my Father 
 which is in heaven, the same is my brother, 
 and sister, and mother. 
 
 Shepard, The Influence of Christ's Coming 
 upon Human Destiny. 
 
 Luke 2: 34, 35. And Simeon blessed them, 
 and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, 
 this child is set for the fall and rising again 
 of many in Israel ; and for a sign which 
 shall be spoken against ; (yea, a sword 
 shall pierce through thy own soul also,) 
 that the thoughts of many hearts may be 
 revealed. 
 
 S. Miller. Christ our Righteousness. 
 
 Jer. 23: 6. In his days Judah shall be 
 saved, and Israel shall dwell safely : and 
 this is his name whereby he shall be called, 
 THE LOKD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
 
Storrs. 
 
 Church. 
 
 Church. 
 
 CHRIST. 31 
 
 The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. 
 
 Eph. 3: 8. Unto me, who am less than 
 the least of all saints, is this grace given, 
 that I should preach among the Gentiles 
 the unsearchable riches of Christ. 
 
 The Power of the Cross. 
 John 3: 14, 15. And as Moses lifted up the 
 serpent in the wilderness, even so must the 
 Son of Man be lifted up : that whosoever 
 believeth in him should not perish, but have 
 eternal life. 
 
 Williams. Christ's Kingdom. 
 
 John 18: 36. Jesus answered, My kingdom 
 is not of this world : if my kingdom were 
 of this world, then would my servants fight, 
 that I should not be delivered to the Jews : 
 but now is my kingdom not from hence. 
 
 Williams. The Tender Sympathy of Christ. 
 
 John 11: 35. Jesus wept. 
 
 Emmons. 
 
 Neutrality respecting Christ Im- 
 possible. 
 
 Mat. 12: 30. He that is not with me is 
 against me ; and he that gathereth not with 
 me scattereth abroad. 
 
 Emmons. Christ a proper Object of Worship. 
 
 R. Hall. Heb. 1: 6. Let all the angels of God wor- 
 
 ship him. 
 
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 Emmons. Justification through the Atonement 
 of Christ. 
 
 Col. 1: 14, In whom we have redemption 
 through his blood, even the forgiveness of 
 sins. 
 
 Emmons. Christ ready to Comfort the Feeble- 
 
 Davies. Minded. 
 
 Mat. 12: 20. A bruised reed will he not 
 break. 
 
 Emmons. Christ the Only Foundation. 
 
 Isa. 28: 16, 17. Therefore thus said the 
 Lord God, Behold, I lav in Zion for a founda- 
 tion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner 
 stone, a sure foundation : he that believeth 
 shall not make haste. Judgment also will 
 1 lay to the line, and righteousness to the 
 plummet : and the hail shall sweep away 
 the refuge of lies, and the waters shall over- 
 flow the hiding place. 
 
 Emmons. The Mediatorial 
 
 Glories of Christ. 
 
 Kingdom 
 
 and 
 
 John 18: 37. Pilate therefore said unto 
 him, Art thou a king then 1 Jesus answered, 
 Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end 
 was I born, and for this cause came I into 
 the world, that I should bear witness unto 
 the truth. Every one that is of the trutn 
 heareth my voice. 
 
CHRIST. 
 
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 Pres. Da vies. Christ Precious to all True Be- 
 lievers. 
 
 1 Pet. 2: 7. Unto you therefore which 
 believe he is precious. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Preaching of Christ Cruci- 
 fied the means of salvation. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 22-24. For the. Jews require a 
 sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom : 
 but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews 
 a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks 
 foolishness ; but unto them which are call- 
 ed, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power 
 of God, and the wisdom of God. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Compassion of Christ for 
 
 Sinners. 
 
 Mat. 23: 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
 thou that killest the prophets, and stonest 
 them which are sent unto thee, how often 
 would I have gathered thy children to- 
 gether, even as a hen gathereth her chick- 
 ens under her wings, and ye would not ! 
 
 Payson. All Things Created for Christ. 
 
 Col. 1: 16. All things were created by 
 him, and for him. 
 
 Payson. The Promised Fruit of Christ's 
 Sufferings. 
 
 Isa. 53: 2. He shall see of the travail of his 
 soul and be satisfied. 
 4 
 
34 CHRIST. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Life of Christ the Security and 
 
 Felicity of His Church. 
 
 Rev. 1: 18. / am he that liveth, and was 
 dead ; and, behold, I am alive for ever- 
 more, Amen ; and have the keys of hell 
 and of death. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Necessity of a Mediator be- 
 tween God and Man. 
 
 Job 9: 33. Neither is their any daysman 
 betwixt us,- Ma*, might lay his hand upon us 
 both. 
 
 Chalmers. Christ the Wisdom of God. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 24. But unto them which are 
 called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the 
 power of God, and the wisdom of God. 
 
 R. Hall. Christ's Divinity and Condescen- 
 
 sion. 
 Phil. 2. 5-9. 
 
 R. Hall. The Spirit >and Tendency of Socin- 
 
 ianism. 
 
 Ps. 19: 7. The law of the Lord is perfect, 
 converting the soul : the testimony of the 
 Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 
 
 R. Hall. The Lamb of God— his Character- 
 
CHRIST. 
 
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 his Sacrifice, and his Claim to 
 
 Universal Attention. 
 
 John 1: 35, 36. Again the next day after 
 John stood, and two of his disciples ; and 
 looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, 
 Behold the Lamb of God ! 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Christ's Mission in the Fulness of 
 Time. 
 
 Gal. 4: 4, 5. But when the fulness of the 
 time was come, God sent forth his Son, made 
 of a woman, made under the law, to re- 
 deem them that were under the law, that 
 we might receive the adoption of sons. 
 
 The Light in which Christ regards 
 his Followers. 
 
 John 15: 15. Henceforth I call you not 
 servants ; for the servant knoweth not what 
 his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; 
 for all things that I have heard of my Father 
 I have made known unto. you. 
 
 The End for which Christ dedicated 
 
 himself to God. 
 
 John 17: 19. And for their sakes I sanc- 
 tify myself, that they also might be sancti- 
 fied through the truth. 
 
 The Circumstances of Christ's 
 Death foreordained. 
 
 Luke 22: 22. And truly the Son of man 
 goeth, as it was determined. 
 
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 Simeon. The Brazen Serpent a Type of 
 Christ. 
 
 John 3: 14, 15. And as Moses lifted up 
 the serpent in the wilderness, even so must 
 the Son of man be lifted up : that whoso- 
 ever believeth in him should not perish, 
 but have eternal life. 
 
 Simeon. The Friends and the Enemies of 
 Christ contrasted. 
 
 Rev 17: 14. These shall make war with 
 the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome 
 them: for he is Lord of lords, and King 
 of kings : and they that are with him are 
 called, and chosen, and faithful. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Comparison between the Father's 
 
 _ love to Christ, and Christ's love 
 
 to us. 
 
 John 15: 9. As the Father hath loved me, 
 so have I loved you : continue ye in my 
 love. 
 
 Simeon. No Remission without Blood. 
 
 Heb. 9: 22. And almost all things are by 
 the law purged with blood ; and without 
 shedding of blood is no remission. 
 
 Simeon. An Inquiry into our Views of Christ. 
 
 Mat. 22: 42.- What think- ye of Christ 1 
 
Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 CHRIST. 
 
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 Simeon. No Way to God but through Christ. 
 
 John 14: 6. Jesus saithunto him, I am the 
 way, and the truth, and the life ; no man 
 cometh unto the Father, but by me. 
 
 Hatred of Christ is Hatred of the 
 Father. 
 
 John 15: 23. He that hateth me hateth 
 my Father also. 
 
 Christ Ever the same. 
 
 Heb. 13: 8. Jesus Christ the same yester- 
 day, and to-day, and forever. 
 
 Simeon. The Fulness of Christ. 
 
 Col. 1: 19. For it pleased the Father that 
 in him should all fulness dwell. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Suitableness of Christ to the 
 
 Believer's Necessities. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 30. But of him are ye in Christ 
 Jesus, who of God is made unto us wis- 
 dom, and righteousness,, and sanctification, 
 and redemption. 
 
 Christ is All. 
 
 Col. 3: 11. But Christ is all and in all. 
 
 Smalle y. The Father the Prototype of the Son. 
 
 John 14: 8, 9. Philip saith unto him, Lord, 
 
 4* 
 
CHRIST. 
 
 show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 
 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long 
 time with you, and yet hast thou not known 
 me, Philip 1 he that hath seen me hath seen 
 the Father. 
 
 Smalley. Christ must have his own place in 
 the Gospel. 
 Luke 9: 20. Whom say ye that Iaml 
 
 Lathrop. The Work of Redemption Marvel- 
 lous, but Divine. 
 
 Matt. 21: 42. This is the Lord's doing, and 
 it is marvellous in our eyes. 
 
 Blondel. Christ's Benevolence to an Impover- 
 ished World. 
 
 2 Cor. 8: 9. Though he was rich, yet for 
 your sakes he became poor, that ye through 
 his poverty might be rich. 
 
 Blondel. Ground of Enmity between Christ 
 
 and Satan. 
 
 Gen. 3: 14, 15* And the Lord God said 
 unto the serpent, Because thou hast done 
 this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and 
 above every beast of the field ; upon thy 
 belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou 
 eat all the days of thy life. And I will put 
 enmity between thee and the woman, and 
 between thy seed and her seed ; it shall 
 bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his 
 heel. 
 
CHRIST. 
 
 Blondel. Pre-eminence 
 Creatures. 
 
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 of Christ over 5 all 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Col. 1: 18. And he is the head of the body, 
 the church ; who is the beginning, the first- 
 born from the dead ; that in all things he 
 might have the pre-eminence. 
 
 Blondel. The Supreme Divinity of Christ. 
 John 1: 1. The Word was God. 
 
 The Angels' Song at the Birth of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 Luke 2: 13, 14. And suddenly there was 
 with the angel a multitude of the heavenly 
 
 host 
 
 prai 
 
 sinsr God, and 
 
 Glory to 
 
 God in the highest, and on earth peace, good 
 will toward men. 
 
 Christ the Fountain of Life and 
 
 Light. 
 
 Ps. 36: 9. For with thee is the fountain 
 of life : in thy light shall we see light. 
 
 Simeon. Christ's Willingness to Save Sin- 
 ners. 
 
 John 6: 37. Him that cometh to me, I will 
 in nowise cast out. 
 
 Simeon. All Needful Supplies obtained 
 through Christ. 
 Phil. 4: 19. But my God shall supply all 
 
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 CHRIST. 
 
 your need according to his riches in glory 
 by Christ Jesus. 
 
 Simeon. Christ's Power to Succour the 
 
 Tempted. 
 
 Heb. 2: 18. For in that he himself hath 
 suffered being tempted, he is able to succour 
 them that are tempted. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Christ considered as our Example. 
 
 1 Pet. 2: 21. For even hereunto were ye 
 called ; because Christ also suffered for us, 
 leaving us an example, that ye should follow 
 his steps. 
 
 In his Early Habits. 
 
 Luke 2: 49-51. And he said unto them, 
 How is it that ye sought me 1 wist ye not 
 that I must be about my Father's business \ 
 And they understood not the saying which 
 he spake unto them. And he went down 
 with them, and came to Nazareth, and was 
 subject unto them ; but his mother kept all 
 these sayings in her heart. 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 In his Humiliation. 
 
 Phil. 2: 5-8. 
 
 Simeon. In his Diligence in Serving God. 
 
 John 4: 34. Jesus saith unto them, My 
 meat is to do the will of him that sent me, 
 and to finish his work.. 
 
CHRIST. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
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 [In his Diligence in Benefitting Men. 
 
 Acts 10: 38. Who went about doing good. 
 
 Simeon. In his Condescension. 
 
 John 13: 12-15. So after he had washed 
 their feet, and had taken his garments, and 
 was set down again, he said unto them, 
 Know ye what I have done to you 1 Ye 
 call me Master and Lord, and ye say well ; 
 for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Mas- 
 ter, have washed your feet ; ye also ought 
 to wash one another's feet. For I have 
 given you an example, that ye should do 
 as I have done to you. 
 
 As a Meek and Lowly Teacher. 
 
 Mat. 11: 29. Take my yoke upon you, 
 and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly 
 in heart ; and ye shall find rest unto your 
 souls. 
 
 Simeon. In his Resignation. 
 
 John 12: 27, 28. Now is my soul troubled, 
 and what shall I say 1 Father, save me from 
 this hour : but for this cause came I unto 
 this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then 
 came there a voice from heaven, saying, I 
 have both glorified it, and will glorify it 
 again. 
 
 
 Simeon. In his Patience under Sufferings. 
 
 Heb. 12: 3. For consider him that endureth 
 such contradiction of sinners against him- 
 self, lest ye be wearied and faint in your 
 minds. 
 
42 CHRIST. 
 
 Simeon. In his Intercession for his Enemies. 
 
 Luke 23: 34. Then said Jesus, Father, 
 forgive them ; for they know not what they 
 do. 
 
 
 Whitefield. The Good Shepherd. 
 
 John 10: 27, 28. My sheep hear my voice, 
 and I know them, and they follow me. And 
 I give unto them eternal life, and they shall 
 never perish, neither shall any man pluck 
 them out of my hand. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Children in the Temple 
 
 Praising Christ. 
 
 Mat. 21: 15, 16. And when the chief 
 priests and scribes saw the wonderful things 
 that he did, and the children crying in the 
 temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son 
 of David ; they were sore displeased, and 
 said unto him, Hearest thou what these say ] 
 And Jesus saith unto them, Yea ; have ye 
 never read, Out of the mouth of babes and 
 sucklings thou hast perfected praise \ 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Necessity of Christ's Ascen- 
 sion. 
 
 Acts 3: 21. Whom the heaven must receive 
 until the times of restitution of all things, 
 which God had spoken by the mouth of all 
 his holy prophets since the world began. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Christ's Dominion. 
 
 Rev. 1: 6. And hath made us kings and 
 priests unto God and his Father ; to him 
 be glory and dominion forever and ever. 
 Amen. 
 
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 Pulpit Sketches. God and the Redeemer Mu- 
 tually Glorified. 
 
 John 17: 1. These words spake Jesus, and 
 lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, 
 the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy 
 Son also may glorify thee. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Christ the Light and Lustre 
 of the Church. 
 
 Is. 60: 1. Arise, shine, for thy light is 
 come, and the glory of the Lord is risen 
 upon thee. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Name of Jesus Fra- 
 grant. 
 
 Cant. 1: 3. Because of the savour of thy 
 good ointments thy name is as ointment 
 poured forth, therefore do the virgins love 
 thee. 
 
 Whitefield. Christ the Believer's Wisdom, 
 Righteousness, Sanctification and 
 Redemption. 
 1 Cor. 1: 30. 
 
 Prophecies Relating to the Messiah. 
 Simeon. Abraham's Promised Seed. 
 
 Gen. 22: 18. And in thy seed shall all the 
 nations of the earth be blessed ; because 
 thou hast obeyed my voice. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 CHRIST. 
 
 Christ the True Shiloh. 
 
 Gen. 49: 10. The sceptre shall not depart 
 from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between 
 his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him 
 shall the gathering of the people be. 
 
 Simeon. Christ the Star spoken of by Balaam. 
 
 Num. 24: 15-17. And he took up his par- 
 able, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath 
 said, and the man whose eyes are open hath 
 said : he hath said, which heard the words 
 of God, and knew the knowledge of the 
 Most High, which saw the vision of the Al- 
 mighty, falling into a trance, but having his 
 eyes open : I shall see him, but not now : 
 I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall 
 come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre 
 shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the 
 corners of Moab, and destroy all the chil- 
 dren of Sheth. 
 
 Simeon. Christ Job's Living Redeemer. 
 
 Job 19: 25-27. For I know that my Re- 
 deemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the 
 latter day upon the earth : and though after 
 my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my 
 flesh shall 1 see God : whom I shall see for 
 myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not 
 another ; though my reins be consumed 
 within me. 
 
 Simeon. Christ Superseding the Legal Sac- 
 rifices. 
 Heb. 10: 5-10. 
 
CHRIST. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 
 God's Covenant Engagement with 
 
 Christ and us. 
 Ps. 86: 28-35. 
 
 Signs of Messiah's Advent. 
 Joel 2: 28-32. 
 
 Effects of Christ's Advent. 
 Mai. 3: 1-3. 
 
 Import of the Names given to 
 Christ. 
 
 Mat. 1: 21-23. And she shall bring forth 
 a son, and thou shalt call his name JKSUS : 
 for he shall save his people from their sins. 
 Now all this was done, that it might be 
 fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by 
 the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall 
 be with child, and shall bring forth a son, 
 and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
 which being interpreted is, God with us. 
 
 Simeon. Christ's Advent a Ground of Joy. 
 
 Zech. 9 : 9. Eejoice greatly, O daughter 
 of Zion j shout, O daughter of Jerusalem : 
 behold, thy King cometh unto thee : he is 
 just, and having salvation ; lowly, and riding 
 upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an 
 
 Simeon. Christ's Incarnation. 
 
 Isa. 9: 6. For unto us a child is born, unto 
 us a son is given : and the government shall 
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 CHRIST. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 be upon his shoulder : and his name shall 
 be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, The 
 Prince of Peace. 
 
 Christ the Light and Salvation of 
 the Gentiles. 
 
 Isa. 49 : 6. And he said, It is a light thing 
 that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up 
 the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the pre- 
 served of Israel : I will also give thee for a 
 light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be 
 my salvation unto the end of the earth. 
 
 Simeon. Christ a Great Saviour. 
 
 Isa. 10: 20. And it shall come to pass in 
 that day, that the remnant of Israel, and 
 such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, 
 shall no more again stay upon him that 
 smote them ; but shall stay upon the Lord, 
 the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 
 
 Christ's Incarnation a Call to 
 
 Worship him. 
 
 Heb. 1: 6. And again, when he bringeth 
 in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, 
 And let all the angels of God worship him. 
 
 Christ's Execution of his Pastoral 
 
 Office. 
 
 Ezek. 34: 16. I will seek that which was 
 lost, and bring again that which was driven 
 away, and will bind up that which was bro- 
 ken, and will strengthen that which was 
 sick : but I will destroy the fat and the 
 strong ; I will feed them with judgment. 
 
CHRIST. 
 
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 Simeon. Christ's Compassion towards the 
 Weak. 
 
 Mat. 12: 18-21. Behold my servant, whom 
 I have chosen ; my beloved, in whom my 
 soul is well pleased : I will put my Spirit 
 upon him, and he shall show judgment to 
 the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; 
 neither shall any man hear his voice in the 
 streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, 
 and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he 
 send forth judgment unto victory. And in 
 his name shall the Gentiles trust. 
 
 Simeon. Christ a Suitable and All-Sufficient 
 Help. 
 
 Isa. 25: 4. For thou hast been a strength 
 to the poor, a strength to the needy in his 
 distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow 
 from the heat, when the blast of the terrible 
 ones is as a storm against the wall. 
 
 Simeon. Security and Comfort in Christ. 
 
 Isa. 32: 2. And a man shall be as a hiding 
 place from the wind, and a covert from the 
 tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, 
 
 as the 
 land. 
 
 shadow of a great rock in a weary 
 
 Simeon. Christ's Commission,. 
 
 Isa. 61: 1-3. The Spirit of the Lord God 
 is upon me ; because the Lord hath anoint- 
 ed me to preach good tidings unto the 
 meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the 
 broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the 
 captives, and the opening of the prison to 
 them that are bound ] to proclaim the accep- 
 
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 CHRIST. 
 
 table year of the Lord, and the day of ven- 
 geance of our God; to comfort all that 
 mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn 
 in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, 
 the oil of joy for mourning 1 , the garment 
 of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that 
 they might be called trees of righteousness, 
 the planting of the Lord, that he might be 
 glorified. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Extent of Christ's Compassion. 
 
 Ps. 146: 7, 8. Which executeth judgment 
 for the oppressed, which giveth food to 
 the hungry. The Lord looseth the prison- 
 ers. The Lord openeth the eyes of the 
 blind : the Lord raiseth them that are bowed 
 down : the Lord loveth the righteous. 
 
 Simeon. Christ Rewarded. 
 
 Isa. 52: 13. Behold my servant shall deal 
 prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, 
 and be very high. 
 
 The Depth of Christ's Humiliation. 
 
 Isa. 52: 14, 15. As many were astonished 
 at thee ; his visage was so marred more 
 than any man, and his form more than the 
 sons of men : so shall he sprinkle many 
 nations ; the kings shall shut their mouths 
 at him : for that which had not been told 
 them shall they see ; and that which they 
 had not heard shall they consider. 
 
 Simeon. Christ's Death a Condition of our 
 Salvation. 
 
 Isa. 53: 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to 
 
CHRIST. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 bruise him ; he hath put him to grief: when 
 thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, 
 he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his 
 days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall 
 prosper in his hand. 
 
 Christ's Satisfaction in his People. 
 
 Isa. 53: 11. He shall see of the travail of 
 his soul, and shall be satisfied : by his know- 
 ledge shall my righteous servant justify 
 many ; for he shall bear their iniquities. 
 
 The Fruit of Christ's Death and 
 
 Intercession. 
 
 Isa. 53: 12. Therefore will I divide him 
 a portion with the great, and he shall di- 
 vide the spoil with the strong ; because he 
 hath poured out his soul unto death: and he 
 was numbered with the transgressors j and 
 he bare the sins of many, and made inter- 
 cession for the transgressors. 
 
 Christ's Resurrection and Glory. 
 
 Ps. 16: 8-11. I have set the Lord always 
 before me : because he is at my right hand, 
 I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart 
 is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh 
 also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not 
 leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou 
 suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 
 Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy 
 presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right 
 hand there are pleasures forevermore.. 
 
 The End of Christ's Ascension. 
 
 Ps. 68: 18. Thou hast ascended on high, 
 
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 CHRIST. 
 
 SiMEon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 thou hast led captivity captive : thou hast 
 received gifts for men j yea, for the rebel- 
 lious also, that the Lord God might dwell 
 among them. 
 
 Christ Victorious over all his 
 
 Enemies. 
 
 Isa. 45: 23-25. 1 have sworn by myself, 
 the word is gone out of my mouth in right- 
 eousness, and shall not return, That unto 
 me every knee shall bow, every tongue 
 shall swear. Surely, shall one say, In the 
 Lord have I righteousness and strength : 
 even to him shall men come ; and all that 
 are incensed against him shall be ashamed. 
 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be 
 justified, and shall glory. 
 
 Christ coming to Judgment. 
 
 Jude 14, 15. And Enoch also, the seventh 
 from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, 
 Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand 
 of his saints, to execute judgment upon 
 all, and to convince all that are ungodly 
 among them, of all their ungodly deeds 
 which they have ungodly committed, and of 
 all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners 
 have spoken against him. 
 
SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. 
 Regeneration is by the Spirit. 
 
 John 3: 5. Except a man be born of the 
 Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of 
 heaven. 
 
 Howe. On Vexing the Holy Spirit. 
 
 Isa. 63: 10. But they rebelled, and vex- 
 ed his holy Spirit : therefore he was turned 
 to be their enemy, and he fought against 
 them. 
 
 Jay. On Quenching the Holy Spirit. 
 
 1 Thess. 5: 10. Quench not the Spirit. 
 
 Saurin. The Effusion of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 Acts 2: 37. Now when they heard this, 
 they were pricked in their heart, and said 
 unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, 
 Men and brethren, what shall we do 1 
 
 Saurin. The Teaching of the Spirit. 
 
 1 John 2: 20. But ye have an unction from 
 the Holy One, and ye know all things. 
 
 G. N. Judd. Necessity of Divine Influence. 
 
 Zech. 4: 6. Not by might, nor by power, 
 but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
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 HOLY SPIRIT. 
 
 W. Smith. Resisting the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Acts 7: 51. Ye stiff-necked, and uncir- 
 cumcised in heart and ears, ye do always 
 resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, 
 so do ye. 
 
 Hatfield. Baptism of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Acts 1: 5. For John truly baptized with 
 water ; but ye shall be baptized with the 
 Holy Ghost not many days hence. 
 
 Emmons. Special Grace in Conversion. 
 
 Ps. 100: 2. Thy people shall be willing 
 in the day of thy power. 
 
 Emmons. On the Unpardonable Sin. 
 
 1 John 5: 16. There is a sin unto death. 
 
 Emmons. The Nature and Author of Regene- 
 ration. 
 
 John 3: 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, 
 Ye must be born again. 
 
 R. Hall. The Cause, Agent, and Purpose, of 
 
 Regeneration. 
 
 James 1: 18. Of his own will begat he us 
 with the word of truth, that we should be 
 a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. 
 
 Simeon. The Ends for which the Holy Spirit 
 is given. 
 Ezek. 36: 26, 27. A new heart also will I 
 
HOLY SPIRIT. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 give you, and a new spirit will I put with- 
 in you : and I will take away the stony 
 heart out of your flesh, and I will give 
 you a heart of flesh. And I will put my 
 Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in 
 my statutes, and ye shall keep my judg- 
 ments, and do them. 
 
 The Work of the Spirit in Strength- 
 ening Men for Suffering or Duty. 
 
 Rom. 8: 26. Likewise the Spirit also 
 helpeth our infirmities : for we know not 
 what we should pray for as we ought : but 
 the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us 
 with groanings which cannot be uttered. 
 
 The Personality and Office of the 
 
 Holy Spirit. 
 
 John 15: 26. But when the Comforter is 
 come, whom T will send unto you from the 
 Father, even the Spirit of truth, which pro- 
 ceedeth from the Father, he shall testify 
 of me. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Christian's Best Friend 
 
 aggrieved. 
 
 Eph. 4: 30. And grieve not the Holy Spirit 
 of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the 
 day of redemption. 
 
 Smalley. 
 
 A Revival of Pure Religion the 
 
 Particular Work of the Spirit. 
 
 Zech. 4: 6. Not by might, nor by power, 
 but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
54 HOLY SPIRIT. 
 
 Smalley. Attention to the Word excited by 
 
 the Holy Spirit. 
 
 Acts 16: 14. And a certain woman named 
 Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of 
 Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us : 
 whose heart the Lord opened, that she at- 
 tended unto the things which were spoken 
 of Paul. 
 
 Whitefield. The Holy Spirit convincing the 
 World of Sin ; Righteousness and 
 Judgment. 
 John 16: 8. 
 
 Lathrop. The Dovelike Descent of the Holy 
 
 Spirit. 
 
 Luke 3: 12. And the Holy Ghost descended 
 in a bodily shape like a dove upon him. 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord not strait- 
 ened. 
 
 Mic. 2: 7. Is the Spirit of the Lord strait- 
 ened? 
 
 B. Dickinson. Outpouring of the Spirit under 
 
 the Gospel. 
 
 Isa. 32: 15. Until the Spirit be poured 
 upon us from on high ; and the wilderness 
 be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be 
 counted for a forest. 
 
SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE WORD OF GOD. 
 
 The Scriptures from God. 
 
 2 Tim. 3: 16. All scripture is given by 
 inspiration of God. 
 
 The Scriptures the Light of the 
 World. 
 
 Ps. 119: 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my 
 feet, and a light unto my path. 
 
 The Scriptures suited to the Wants 
 
 of Man. 
 Ps. 119: 105. 
 
 McIlvaine's Col. The Excellency and Glory 
 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 Eph. 3: 18, 19. May be able to compre- 
 hend with all saints what is the breadth, 
 and length, and depth, and height; and 
 to know the love of Christ, which passeth 
 knowledge, that ye might be filled with all 
 the fulness of God. 
 
 Saurin. The Sufficiency of Revelation. 
 
 Luke 16: 29. Abraham saith unto him, 
 They have Moses and the prophets j let 
 them hear them. 
 
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 Griffin. The Value of the Gospel. 
 
 Luke 7: 22. To the poor the gospel is 
 preached. 
 
 G. Spring. Internal Evidences of Revelation. 
 
 Ps. 138: 2. For thou hast magnified thy 
 word above all thy name. 
 
 A. Green. The Efficacy of Divine Truth. 
 
 Ps. 119: 130. The entrance of thy words 
 giveth light j it giveth understanding unto 
 the simple. 
 
 A. Dickinson. Right Use of the Scriptures. 
 
 John 5: 39. Search the Scriptures ; for in 
 them ye think ye have eternal life : and they 
 are they which testify of me. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Life and Immortality revealed 
 in the Gospel. 
 
 2 Tim. 1: 12. Who hath abolished death, 
 and hath brought life and immortality to 
 light through the gospel. 
 
 Chalmers. The Power of the Gospel to dis- 
 solve the Enmity of the Heart 
 against God. 
 
 Rom. 8: 7. Because the carnal mind if en- 
 mity against God : for it is not subject to 
 the law of God, neither indeed can be. 
 
WORD OF GOD. 
 
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 Chalmers. The Union of Truth and Mercy in 
 
 the Gospel. 
 
 Ps. 85: 10. Mercy and truth are met to- 
 gether. 
 
 Simeon. The Change wrought by the Gospel. 
 
 Isa. 55: 12, 13. For ye shall go out with 
 joy, and be led forth with peace : the moun- 
 tains and the hills shall break forth before 
 you into singing, and all the trees of the 
 field shall clap their hands. Instead of the 
 thorn shall come up the fir tree, and in- 
 stead of the brier shall come up the myrtle 
 tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, 
 for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut 
 off. 
 
 Simeon. Frailty of Man and Immutability of 
 the Gospel. 
 
 Isa. 40: 6-8. The voice said, Cry. And 
 he said, What shall I cry! All .flesh is 
 grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as 
 the flower of the field : the grass wither- 
 eth, the flower fadeth : because the Spirit 
 of the Lord bloweth upon it : surely the 
 people is grass. The grass withereth, the 
 flower fadeth: but the word of our God 
 shall stand forever. 
 
 Simeon. The Spirituality of the Law. 
 
 Kom. 7: 7. What shall we say then 1 Is 
 the law sin 1 God forbid. Nay, I had not 
 known sin, but by the law : for I had not 
 known lust, except the law had said, Thou 
 shalt not covet. 
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 Simeon. 
 
 WORD OF GOD. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Scriptures recommended. 
 
 Deut. 11: 18-21. Therefore shall ye lay up 
 these my words in your heart and in your 
 soul, and bind them for a sign upon your 
 hand, that they maybe as frontlets between 
 your eyes. And ye shall teach them your 
 children, speaking of them when thou 
 sittest in thine house, and when thou 
 walkest by the way, when thou liest down, 
 and when thou risest up. And thou shalt 
 write them upon the door posts of thine 
 house, and upon thy gates : that your 
 days may be multiplied, and the days of 
 your children, in the land which the Lord 
 sware unto your fathers to give them, as 
 the days of heaven upon the earth. 
 
 The Use and Benefit of the Scrip- 
 tures. 
 
 Ps. 19: 10, 11. More to be desired are they 
 than gold, yea than much fine gold : sweeter 
 also than honey and the honeycomb. More- 
 over by them is thy servant warned : and 
 in keeping of them there is great reward. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Smalley. 
 
 Gospel 
 
 con- 
 
 The Law and the 
 
 jointly Sustained. 
 
 Mat. 5: 17. Think not that I am come to 
 destroy the law, or the prophets : I am not 
 come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
 
 The Mildness of the Laws of Christ. 
 
 Mat. 11: 30. For my yoke is easy, and my 
 burden is light. 
 
WORD OF GOD. 
 
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 Lathrop. Perspicuity of the Scriptures. 
 
 2 Cor. 3: 12. We use great plainness of 
 speech. 
 
 Pres. D wight. Those who believe not the 
 Scriptures would not be per- 
 suaded though one rose from the 
 Dead. 
 
 Luke 16: 31. And he said unto him, If they 
 hear not Moses and the prophets, neither 
 will they be persuaded though one rose from 
 the dead. 
 
 Beecher. The Bible a Code of Laws. 
 Ps. 19: 7-10. 
 
 Robbins. The Spirit of the Bible. 
 
 Ps. 119: 156. Quicken me according to thy 
 judgments. 
 
SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE SABBATH. 
 
 Wilson. The Sabbath Instituted in Paradise. 
 
 Gen. 2: 1-3. Thus the heavens and the 
 earth were finished, and all the host of them. 
 And on the seventh day God ended his 
 work which he had made ; and he rested on 
 the seventh day from all his work which he 
 had made. And God blessed the seventh 
 day, and sanctified it ; because that in it he 
 had rested from all his work which God 
 created and made. 
 
 Wilson. The Sabbath under the Law of 
 
 Moses. 
 
 Ex. 20: 8-11. Remember the sabbath day, 
 to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, 
 and do all thy work : but the seventh day 
 is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it 
 thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy 
 son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, 
 nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 
 stranger that is within thy gates: for in six 
 days the Lord made heaven and earth, the 
 sea, and all that in them is, and rested 
 the seventh day : wherefore the Lord bless- 
 ed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 
 
 Wilson. The Sabbath under the Gospel. 
 
 Mark 2: 27, 28. And he said unto them. 
 The sabbath was made for man, and not 
 man for the sabbath. Therefore the Son of 
 man is Lord also of the sabbath. 
 
SABBATH. 
 
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 Wilson. Change of the Sabbath. 
 
 Rev. 1: 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's 
 day. 
 
 Wilson. Duties of the Sabbath. 
 
 Ezek..20: 12. Moreover also I gave them my 
 sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, 
 that they might know that I am the Lord 
 that sanctify them. 
 
 Wilson. 
 
 Wilson. 
 
 Importance of a Right Observance 
 of the Sabbath and the Evils of 
 its Abuse. 
 
 Isa. 58: 1, 2. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up 
 thy voice like a trumpet, and show my 
 people their transgression, and the house of 
 Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, 
 and delight to know my ways, as a nation 
 that did righteousness, and forsook not 
 the ordinances of their God : they ask of 
 me the ordinances of justice: they take de- 
 light in approaching to God. 
 
 Guilt of the Profanation of the Sab- 
 bath applied to Individuals and 
 Nations. 
 
 Neh. 13: 17, 18. Then I contended with 
 the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, 
 What evil thing is this that ye do, and pro- 
 fane the sabbath day 1 Did not your fathers 
 thus, and did not our God bring all this 
 evil upon us, and upon this cityl yet ye 
 bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning 
 the sabbath. 
 
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 SABBATH. 
 
 The Origin, Perpetuity, and Impor- 
 tance of the Sabbath. 
 Gen. 2: 2, 3. 
 
 Jay 
 
 Duties and Considerations for Sat- 
 urday Evening. 
 
 Ex. 16: 23. And he said unto them, This 
 is that which the Lord hath said, To-mor- 
 row is the rest of the holy sabbath unto 
 the Lord : bake that which ye will bake 
 to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe ; and 
 that which remaineth over, lay up for you 
 to be kept until the morning. 
 
 Appleton. Perpetual Obligation of the 
 bath. 
 
 Sab- 
 
 Ex. 31: 17. It is a sign between me and 
 the children of Israel forever : for in six 
 days the Lord made heaven and earth, 
 and on the seventh day he rested, and was 
 refreshed. 
 
 Manner of Sanctifying the Sabbath. 
 
 Ex. 31: 14. Ye shall keep the sabbath there- 
 fore 5 for it is holy unto you: every one 
 that defileth it shall surely be put to death : 
 for whosoever doeth any work therein, 
 that soul shall be cut off from among his 
 people. 
 
 Bishop. 
 
 The Sabbath Breaker. 
 
 Numb. 15: 32. And while the children of 
 
 Israel were in the wilderness, they found a 
 
 man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath 
 
 day. 
 
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 Emmons. The Sabbath a divine, standing Or- 
 dinance, appointed for the Benefit 
 of all Men in all Ages. 
 
 Mark 2: 37. And he said unto them, The 
 sabbath was made for man, and not man for 
 the sabbath. 
 
 The Lord's Day commemorative of 
 
 Christ's Resurrection. 
 
 Ps. ] 18: 24. This is the day which the Lord 
 hath made j we will rejoice and be glad in it. 
 
SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO MAN AS A BEING. 
 Barrow. The Pleasantness of Religion. 
 
 Prov. 3: 17. Her ways are ways of pleas- 
 antness, and all her paths are peace. 
 
 Barrow. The Profitableness of Godliness. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 8. But godliness is profitable for 
 all things. 
 
 Barrow. The Reward of Honouring God. 
 
 1 Sam. 2: 30. For them that honour me, I 
 will honour. 
 
 Barrow. Upright Walking Sure Walking. 
 
 Prov. 10: 9. He that walketh uprightly 
 walketh surely. 
 
 Barrow. Of Industry in our Calling. 
 
 Rom. 12: 11. Not slothful in business. 
 
 Barrow. Not to offend in Word, an evidence 
 of a high degree of Virtue. 
 
 James 3: 2. If any man offend not in word, 
 the same is a perfect man. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
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 Barrow. Against Foolish Talking and Jest- 
 ing. 
 Eph. 5:. 4.. Nor foolish talking nor jesting, 
 which are not convenient. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 Barrow. 
 Howe. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 The Folly of Slander. 
 
 Prov. 10: 18. He that uttereth a slander, 
 is a fool. 
 
 Evil Speaking in General. 
 Tit.. 3: 2. To speak evil of no man. 
 
 Against rash Censuring and Judg- 
 ing. 
 
 Mat. 7: 1. Judge not, that ye be not 
 judged. 
 
 On Minding our own Business. 
 
 1 Thess. 4: 11. And that ye study to be 
 quiet, and to do your own business. 
 
 On the Love of God. 
 
 Mat. 22: 37. Jesus said unto him, Thou 
 shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
 heart, and with all thy soul^ and with all 
 thy mind. 
 
 On the Love of our Neighbour. 
 
 Mat. 22: 39. And the second w like unto 
 it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 
 
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 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Barrow. The Nature, Properties, and Acts 
 of Charity. 
 Eph. 5: 2. And walk in love. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 Barrow. 
 Jay. 
 
 Barrow. Submission to the Divine Will. 
 
 Luke 22: 42. Nevertheless, not my will, 
 but thine, be done. 
 
 2 Sam. 15: 25, 26. Let him do to me as 
 seemeth good unto him. 
 
 Contentment. 
 
 Phil. 4: 11. I have learned in whatever 
 state I am, therewith to be content. 
 1 Tim. 6: 8. And having food and raiment 
 let us be therewith content. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 Barrow. 
 
 Barrow, 
 
 The Reasonableness and Equity of a 
 
 Future Judgment. 
 
 Eccl. 3: 17. God shall judge the righteous 
 and the wicked. 
 
 The Certainty and Circumstances 
 
 of a Future Judgment. 
 
 Acts 10: 42. And to testify that it is he 
 which was ordained of God to be the Judge 
 of quick and dead. 
 
 Honesty in the Sight of God and 
 
 Man. 
 2 Cor. 8: 21. Providing for honest things, 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
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 not only in the sight of the Lord, but also 
 in the sight of men. 
 
 Appleton. Influence of Religion on the Con- 
 dition of Man. 
 
 Isa. 54: 13, 14. And all thy children shall 
 be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be 
 the peace of thy children. In righteousness 
 shalt thou be established : thou shalt be far 
 from oppression ; for thou shalt not fear : 
 and from terror ; for it shall not come near 
 thee. 
 
 Appleton. Consequences of Neglecting the 
 great Salvation. 
 
 Heb. 2: 3. How shall we escape, if we ne- 
 glect so great salvation 1 
 
 Appleton. On Conscience. 
 
 Rom. 2: 15. Which show the work of the 
 law written in their hearts, their conscience 
 also bearing witness, and their thoughts the 
 mean while accusing or else excusing one 
 another. 
 
 Howe. The Gospel commends itself to 
 every Man's Conscience. 
 
 2 Cor. 4: 2. Commending ourselves to 
 every man's conscience in the sight of 
 God. 
 
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 Blunt. 
 
 Blunt. 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 JAy. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 God marking Iniquity. 
 
 Ps. 130: 3. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark 
 iniquities, Lord, who shall stand 1 
 
 Aids to Self-Knowledge. 
 
 2 Kings 8: 13. And Hazael said, But what ! 
 is thy servant a dog, that he should do this 
 great thing % 
 
 The Mind composed by Confidence 
 in God. 
 
 Isa. 26: 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect 
 peace whose mind is stayed on thee. 
 
 The Final Change. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 51, 52. Behold, I show you a 
 mystery j We shall not all sleep, but we 
 shall all be changed, in a moment, in the 
 twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : 
 for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead 
 shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall 
 be changed. 
 
 The Work of each Day done in its 
 
 appropriate Season. 
 
 Ezra 3: 4. As the duty of every day re- 
 quired. 
 
 How we are to Honour God in 
 Trouble. 
 
 Isa. 24: 15. Glorify ye the Lord in the 
 fires. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 69 
 
 Jay. Independence of Character. 
 
 . . Dan. 3: 16-18. 
 
 Jay. The first and most profitable Pur- 
 
 suit. 
 
 Mat. 6: 33. But seek ye first the kingdom 
 of God, and his righteousness ; and all 
 these things shall be added unto you. 
 
 Jay. Life Enjoyed and Improved. 
 
 Eccl. 3: 12. I know that there is no good in 
 them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do 
 good in his life. 
 
 Jay. Sins of the Tongue. 
 
 Ps. 141: 3. Set a watch, O Lord, before 
 my mouth ; keep the door of my lips. 
 
 Jay. The Condemnation of Self- Will. 
 
 Job 34: 33. Should it be according to thy 
 mind 1 
 
 Jay. The Gospel demands and deserves 
 
 Attention. 
 
 Mark 4: 23. If any man have ears to hear, 
 let him hear. 
 
 Jay. Concupiscence Punished. 
 
 Numb. 11: 33. And while the flesh was yet 
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70 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the 
 wrath of the Lord was kindled against the 
 people, and the Lord smote the people with 
 a very great plague. 
 
 Jay. The Disappointments of Life. 
 
 Job 29: 18. Then I said, I shall die in my 
 nest. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Nearness of Eter- 
 nity. 
 
 1 Pet. 4: 7. But the end of all things is at 
 hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch 
 unto prayer. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Diligent Improve- 
 ment of Talents in Preparation 
 for Heaven. 
 
 Mat. 25: 14, 15. For the kingdom of heaven 
 is as a man travelling into a far country, 
 who called his own servants, and delivered 
 unto them his goods. And unto one he 
 gave five talents, to another two, and to 
 another one ; to every man according to 
 his several ability; and straightway took his 
 journey. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Presumptuous Plans. 
 
 James 4: 13-15. Go to now, ye that say, 
 To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a 
 city, and continue there a year, and buy, and 
 sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not 
 what shall be on the morrow. For what is 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
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 your life 1 It is even a vapour, that appear- 
 eth for a little time, and then vanisheth 
 away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord 
 will, we shall live, and do this or that. 
 
 McIlvaine's Col. The Course of the World. 
 
 Eph. 2: 2. Wherein in time past ye walk- 
 edj according to the course of this world, 
 according to the prince of the power of the 
 air, the spirit that now worketh in the chil- 
 dren of disobedience. 
 
 Saurin. The Price of Truth. 
 
 Prov. 23: 23. Buy the truth. 
 
 Saurin. The Sale of Truth. 
 
 Prov. 23: 23. Sell it not. 
 
 Saurin. The Equality of Mankind. 
 
 Prov. 22: 2. The rich and poor meet to- 
 gether : the Lord is the maker of them all. 
 
 Saurin. The Worth of the Soul. 
 
 Mat. 16: 26. For what is a man profited, 
 if he shall gain the whole world, and lose 
 his own soul % or what shall a man give in 
 exchange for his soul 1 
 
 Saurin. Real Liberty. 
 
 John 8: 36. If the Son therefore shall make 
 you free, ye shall be free indeed. 
 
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 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Saurin. The Judgment. 
 
 T. Edwards. Heb. 9: 27. And as it is appointed unto 
 men once to die, but after this the judgment. 
 2 Cor. 5: 10. For we must all appear before 
 the judgment seat of Christ ; that every one 
 may receive the things done in his body, 
 according to that he hath done, whether it 
 be good or bad. 
 
 Saurin. The Necessity of Universal Obe- 
 dience. 
 
 James 2: 10. For whosoever shall keep 
 the whole law, and yet offend in one point, 
 he is guilty of all. 
 
 Sadrin. The Great Duties of Religion. 
 
 Mat. 23: 23. Wo unto you, scribes and 
 Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of 
 mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omit- 
 ted the weighter matters of the law, judg- 
 ment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to 
 have done, and not to leave the other un- 
 done. 
 
 Saurin. The Small Duties of Religion. 
 The same text. 
 
 Saurin. Imaginary Schemes of Happiness. 
 
 Eccles. 1: 9. The thing that hath been, it is 
 that which shall be ; and that which is done 
 is that which shall be done : and there is 
 no new thing under the sun. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
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 Saurin. Cause and Remedy for Fear of 
 Death. 
 
 Heb. 2: 14, 15. Forasmuch then as the 
 children are partakers of flesh and blood, 
 he also himself likewise took part of the 
 same ; that through death he might de- 
 stroy him that had the power of death, that 
 is, the r t devil ; and deliver them who through 
 fear of death were all their lifetime subject 
 to bondage. 
 
 Saurin. Difficulties in Religion. 
 
 1 Cor. 13: 9. We know in part. 
 
 T. H. Skinner. The Utility of Prayer. 
 
 Job 21: 15. What profit should we have, 
 if we pray unto him 1 
 
 S. Miller. The Evidence and Duty of being on 
 the Lord's Side. 
 
 Ex. 32: 26. Then Moses stood in the gate 
 of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's 
 sidel 
 
 L. Woods. Duties of the Rich. 
 
 1 Tim. 6: 17-19. Charge them that are 
 rich in this world, that they be not high- 
 minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but 
 in the living God, who giveth us richly all 
 things to enjoy j that they do good, that 
 they be rich in good works, ready to distri- 
 7* 
 
74 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 bute, willing to communicate ; laying up 
 in store for themselves a good foundation 
 against the time to come, that they may lay 
 hold on eternal life. 
 
 D. A. (Jlark. Mirror of Human Nature. 
 
 Prov. 27: 19. As in water face answer eth 
 to face, so the heart of man to man. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Practical Test of Love or En- 
 mity to God. 
 
 Mai. 1: 6. A son honoureth his father, and 
 a servant his master : if then I be a father, 
 where is mine honour % and if I be a master, 
 where is my fear % 
 
 E. T. Fitch. The Duty of Reproof. 
 
 Eph. 5: 11. And have no fellowship with 
 the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather 
 reprove them. 
 
 E. W. Baldwin. The Final Judgment. 
 
 Heb. 9: 27. After this the judgment. 
 
 J. Woodbridge. Pride abased by the Gospel. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 29. That no flesh should glory 
 in his presence. 
 
 J. H. Church. The Final Condition of all Men. 
 Mat. 25: 46. And these shall go away into 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 75 
 
 everlasting punishment : but the righteous 
 into life eternal. 
 
 J. H. Rice. The Power of Love and Truth. 
 
 2 Cor. 10: 4. For the weapons of our war- 
 fare are not carnal, but mighty through 
 God to the pulling down of strong holds. 
 
 L. Halsey. On Praying for all in Authority. 
 
 E. Porter. 1 Tim. 2: 1, 2. I exhort therefore, that, 
 first of all, supplications, prayers, inter- 
 cession, and giving thanks, be made for all 
 men. For kings, and for all that are in 
 authority ; that we may lead a quiet and 
 peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 
 
 D. A. Clark. It might have been presumed that 
 Men would treat kindly the Son 
 of God. 
 
 Mat. 21: 37. They will reverence my Son. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Man of the World and the 
 Christian contrasted, as they en- 
 counter the Storms of Life. 
 
 Isa. 40: 30, 31. Even the youths shall 
 faint and be weary, and the young men 
 shall utterly fall : but they that wait upon 
 the Lord shall renew their strength ; they 
 shall mount up with wings as eagles ; they 
 shall run, and not be weary ; and they shall 
 walk, and not faint. 
 
76 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 H. Humphrey. Solemn Responsibility. 
 
 1 Thess. 5: 22. Abstain from all appearance 
 of evil. 
 
 L. Woods. Fatal Hinderance to Prayer. 
 
 Ps. 66: 18. If I regard iniquity in my heart, 
 the Lord will not hear me. 
 
 G. Spring. Wealth a fearful Snare to the Soul. 
 
 Mark 10: 23. And Jesus looked round about, 
 and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall 
 they that have riches enter into the king- 
 dom of God ! 
 
 Kollock. The Duty of Restitution. 
 
 Luke 19: 8. If I have taken any thing from 
 any man by false accusation, I restore him 
 four-fold. 
 
 J.Hopkins. The Law not Repealed by the 
 Gospel. 
 
 Rom. 3: 31. Do we then make void the 
 law through faith 1 God forbid: yea, we 
 establish the law. 
 
 J. Edwards. The infinite Worth of the Soul. 
 
 Ps. 49: 8. The redemption of their soul is 
 precious, and it ceaseth forever. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 77 
 
 Pres. Da vies. Joshua's Resolution explained 
 
 McDowell, and enforced. 
 
 Josh. 24: 15. As for me, and my house, we 
 will serve the Lord. 
 
 E. Hall. Forgiveness of Others, a Condition 
 
 of Divine Forgiveness. 
 
 Mat. 6: 12. And forgive us our debts, as 
 we forgive our debtors. 
 
 Emmons. Man urged to act worthily of his 
 dignified Nature. 
 1 Kings 2: 2. Show thyself a man. 
 
 Envy one of the basest Passions. 
 
 Esther 5: 13. Yet all this availeth me noth- 
 ing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sit' 
 ting at the king's gate. 
 
 Little Things blight the fairest 
 
 Prospects. 
 
 Cant. 2: 15. Take us the foxes, the little 
 foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines 
 have tender grapes. 
 
 
 Man admonished of his Duty by in- 
 ferior Creatures, 
 
 Prov. 6: 6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard j 
 consider her ways, and be wise. 
 
78 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Connection of Obedience and Bless- 
 ings. 
 
 Mark: 5. Stretch forth thine hand. 
 
 A vain Curiosity reproved. 
 
 John 21: 22. What is that to thee 1 follow 
 thou me. 
 
 The Value and Use of Money. 
 Eccl. 10: 19. Money answereth all things. 
 
 The demoralizing Influence of bad 
 
 Examples. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 33. Be not deceived ; evil com- 
 munications corrupt good manners. 
 
 A Man's Religion may be his Ruin. 
 
 Isa. 28: 20. For the bed is shorter than 
 that a man can stretch himself on it ; and 
 the covering narrower than that he can wrap 
 himself in it. 
 
 Joseph's Affection worthy of Imita- 
 tion. 
 Gen. 45: 4>. I am Joseph your brother. 
 
 The Path of Human Happiness. 
 Ps, 4: 6, There be many that say, Who 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 79 
 
 will show us any good ? Lord, lift thou up 
 the light of thy countenance upon us. 
 
 Little Things make up the Charac- 
 ter of a Man. 
 
 Luke 16: 10. He that is faithful in that 
 which is least, is faithful also in much ; and 
 he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also 
 in much. 
 
 Man must render his final Account 
 
 to God. 
 
 Luke 16: 2. Give an account of thy stew- 
 ardship. 
 
 Chandler, Knowledge and Practice, necessary 
 to Happiness. 
 
 John 13: 17. If ye know these things, hap- 
 py are ye if ye do them. 
 
 J. 'P. Williams. Obedience essential to Sal- 
 vation. 
 
 Rev. 22: 14. Blessed are they that do his 
 commandments, that they may have right 
 to the tree of life, and may enter in through 
 the gates into the city. 
 
 J. P. Williams. Modesty of Apparrel. 
 
 1 Tim. 2: 9. In like manner also, that wo- 
 men adorn themselves in modest apparel, 
 with shamefacedness and sobriety; not 
 
80 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or 
 costly array. 
 
 J. P. Williams. The Duty of Confessing Christ. 
 
 Mat. 10: 32, 33. Whosoever therefore 
 shall confess me before men, him will I 
 confess also before my Father which is in 
 heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before 
 men, him will I also deny before my Father 
 which is in heaven. 
 
 J. P. Williams. The only proper Object of 
 
 Solicitude. 
 
 Phil. 4: 6. Be careful for nothing, but in 
 everything by prayer and supplication with 
 thanksgiving let your requests be made 
 known unto God. 
 
 J. P, Williams. The Value of Life. 
 
 Isa. 38: 18, 19. For the grave cannot 
 praise thee, death can not celebrate thee ; 
 they that go down into the pit cannot hope 
 for thy truth. The living, the living, he 
 shall praise thee, as I do this day. 
 
 Emmons. The Joy of a clear Conscience. 
 
 2 Cor. 1: 12. For onr rejoicing is this, the 
 testimony of our conscience, that in simpli- 
 city and godly sincerity, not with fleshly 
 wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have 
 had our conversation in the world, and 
 more abundantly to you-ward. 
 
Emmons. 
 
 Emmons. 
 
 Emmons. 
 
 Emmons. 
 
 Emmons. 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 81 
 
 Religion essential to Contentment, 
 
 and Contentment to Happiness. 
 
 1 Tim. 6: 6. Bat godliness with content- 
 ment is great gain. 
 
 The Living go to the Dead. 
 
 2 Sam. 12: 23. I shall go to him, but he 
 shall not return to me. 
 
 Emmons. The Final Harvest. 
 
 Matt. 13: 39. The harvest is the end of the 
 world, and the reapers are the angels. 
 
 The essential and immutable Differ- 
 ence between Right and Wrong. 
 
 Isa. 5: 20. Wo unto them that call evil 
 good, and good evil ; that put darkness for 
 light, and light for darkness j that put bitter 
 for sweet, and sweet for bitter. 
 
 Man's Activity and Dependence 
 
 illustrated. 
 
 Phil. 2: 12, 13. Wherefore, my beloved, as 
 ye have always obeyed, not as in my pre- 
 sence only, but now much more in my ab- 
 sence, work out your own salvation with 
 fear and trembling. For it is God which 
 worketh in you both to will and to do of his 
 good pleasure. 
 
 The proper Design and Energy of 
 
 Prayer. 
 Gen. 32: 28. And he said, Thy name shall 
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82 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 be called no more Jacob, but Israel ; for as 
 a prince hast thou power with God and with 
 men, and hast prevailed. 
 
 Emmons. Sinful Customs opposed with Re- 
 luctance. 
 
 2 Kings 5: 18. In this thing the Lord par- 
 don thy servant, that when my master goeth 
 into the house of Rimmon to worship there, 
 and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow my- 
 self in the house of Rimmon : when I bow 
 down myself in the house of Rimmon, the 
 Lord pardon thy servant in this thing. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Connection between present Ho- 
 liness and future Felicity. 
 
 Heb. 12: 14. Follow peace with all men, 
 and holiness, without which no man shall 
 see the Lord. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Things Unseen preferred to things 
 Seen. 
 
 2 Cor. 4: 18. While we look not at the 
 things which are seen, but at the things 
 which are not seen ; for the things which 
 are seen are temporal, but the things which 
 are not seen are eternal. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The General Resurrection. 
 
 John 5: 28, 19. Marvel not at this: for the 
 hour is coming, in the whichall that are in 
 the graves shall hear his voice, and shall 
 come forth; they that have done good, unto 
 the resurrection of life ; and they that have 
 done evil, unto the resurrection of damna- 
 tion. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 83 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The One Thing Needful. 
 
 Luke 10: 42. But one thing is needful. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Saints Saved with Difficulty, 
 and the Perdition of Sinners cer- 
 tain. 
 
 1 Pet. 4: 18. And if the righteous scarcely 
 be saved, where shall the ungodly and the 
 sinner appear 1 
 
 Pres. Da vies. Ingratitude to God a Heinous 
 
 but General Iniquity. 
 
 2 Chron. 32: 25. But Hezekiah rendered 
 not again according to the benefit doneunto 
 him ; for his heart was lifted up \ therefore 
 there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah 
 and Jerusalem. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Rule of Equity. 
 
 Mat. 7: 12. Therefore all things whatso- 
 ever ye would that men should do to you, 
 do ye even so to them ; for this is the law and 
 the prophets. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Religion the Highest Wisdom. 
 
 Ps. Ill: 10. The fear of the Lord is the 
 beginning of wisdom ; a good understanding 
 have all they that do his commandments. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Primitive and Present State 
 of Man compared. 
 Kom. 5: 17. For if by one man's offence 
 
84 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 death reigned by one ; much more they 
 which receive abundance of grace and of 
 the gift of righteousness shall reign in life 
 by one, Jesus Christ. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Certainty of Death. 
 
 Ezek. 33: 8. wicked man, thou shalt surely 
 die. 
 
 E. Payson. Amiable Instincts not Holiness. 
 
 Mark 10: 21, 22. Then Jesus beholding 
 him loved him, and said unto him, One 
 thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell 
 whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, 
 and thou shalt have treasure in heaven ; 
 and come, take up the cross, and follow 
 me. And he was sad at that saying, and 
 went away grieved j for he had great pos- 
 sessions. 
 
 E. Payson. The Universal Law of Forgiveness. 
 
 Luke 17: 3, 4. Take heed to yourselves : 
 If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke 
 him ', and if he repent, forgive him. And if 
 he trespass against thee seven times in a day, 
 and seven times in a day turn again to thee, 
 saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him. 
 
 E. Payson. Fraud Exposed and Condemned. 
 
 Prov. 20: 14. It is naught, it is naught, 
 saith the buyer ; but when he is gone his 
 way, then he boasteth. 
 
 Equality of Men with Angels. 
 
 Luke 20: 36. For they are equal unto the 
 ansrels. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 85 
 
 A. Fuller. The Instances, Evil Nature, and 
 Dangerous Tendency of Delay- 
 in Matters of Religion. 
 
 Hag. 1: 2. Thus speaketh the Lord of 
 hosts, saying, This people say, The time is 
 not come, the time that the Lokd's house 
 should be built. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Nature and Importance of a 
 
 Deep and Intimate Knowledge of 
 
 Divine Truth. 
 
 Heb. 5: 12-14. For when for the time ye 
 ought to be teachers, ye have need that one 
 teach you again which be the first principles 
 of the oracles of God ; and are become such 
 as have need of milk, and not of strong 
 meat. For every one that useth milk is 
 unskilful in the word of righteousness, for 
 he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to 
 them that are of full age, even those who by 
 reason of use have their senses exercised 
 to discern good and evil. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Christian Doctrineof Rewards. 
 
 Gal. 6: 7, 8. Be not deceived, God is not 
 mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that 
 shall he also reap. For he that soweth to 
 his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; 
 but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the 
 Spirit reap life everlasting. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Gospel the only Effectual Means 
 of Producing Universal Peace 
 among Mankind. 
 Mai. 4: 5, 6. Behold, ; I will send you. 
 
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86 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Elijah the prophet before the coming of the 
 great and dreadful day of the Lord. And 
 he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the 
 children, and the heart of the children to 
 their fathers, lest I come and smite the 
 earth with a curse. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Nature and Importance of Love 
 
 to God. 
 
 Josh. 23: 11. Take good heed therefore 
 unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your 
 God. 
 
 A. Fuller. Christianity an Antidote to Pre- 
 sumption and Despair. 
 
 1 John 2: 1. And if any man sin, we have 
 an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ 
 the righteous. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Sorrow attending Wisdom and 
 
 Knowledge. 
 
 Eccl.l: 17, 18. And I gave my heart to know 
 wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I 
 perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. 
 For in much wisdom is much grief, and 
 he that increaseth knowledge increaseth 
 sorrow. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Magnitude of the Heavenly In- 
 heritance. 
 
 Rom. 8: 18. For I reckon that the suffer- 
 ings of this present time are not worthy tu 
 be compared with the glory which shall be 
 revealed in us. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 87 
 
 Chalmers. The Preparation necessary for un- 
 derstanding the Mysteries of the 
 Gospel. 
 
 Mat. 13: 11, 12. He answered and said 
 unto them, Because it is given unto you to 
 know the mysteries of the kingdom of 
 heaven, but to them it is not given. For 
 whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and 
 he shall have more abundance ; but whoso- 
 ever hath not, from him shall be taken away 
 even that he hath. 
 
 Chalmers. An Estimate of the Morality that is 
 without Godliness. 
 
 Job 9: 30-33. If I wash myself w T ith snow- 
 water, and make my hands never so clean : 
 yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and 
 mine own clothes shall abhor me. For he is 
 not a man, as I am y that I should answer him, 
 and we should come together in judgment. 
 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, 
 that might lay his hand upon us both. 
 
 Chalmers. The Judgment of Men and of God 
 
 compared. 
 
 1 Cor 4: 3, 4. But with me it i& a very 
 small thing that I should be judged of you, 
 or of man's judgment ; yea, I judge not 
 mine own self. For I know nothing of my- 
 self, yet ami not hereby justified ; but he 
 that judgeth me is the Lord. 
 
 Chalmers. The Folly of Men measuring them- 
 selves by themselves. 
 2 Cor. 10: 12. For we dare not make our- 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 selves of the number, or compare ourselves 
 with some that commend themselves ; but 
 they measuring themselves by themselves, 
 and comparing themselves among them- 
 
 selves, are not wise. 
 
 Chalmers. The Emptiness of Natural Virtue. 
 
 John 5: 42. But I know you, that ye have 
 not the love of God in you. 
 
 Chalmers. The Blessings of Redemption. 
 
 Luke 1: 79. To give light to them that sit 
 in darkness and in the shadow of death, to 
 guide our feet into the way of peace. 
 
 R. Hall. The End of Man's Existence. 
 
 Ezek. 15: 2. Son of man, What is the vine 
 tree more than any tree, or than a branch 
 which is among the trees of the forest 1 
 
 R. Hall. Patience. 
 
 Heb. 10: 36. Ye have need of patience. 
 
 R. Hall. On the Duty, Happiness, and Hon- 
 our of Maintaining the Course 
 prescribed to us by Providence. 
 
 Acts 13: 25. As John fulfilled his course. 
 
 R. Hall. The Vanity of Man apart from his 
 
 Immortality. 
 
 Ps. 89: 47. Remember how short my time 
 is j wherefore hast thou made all men in 
 vain] 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 89 
 
 R. Hall. The Love of Life. 
 
 Job 2: 4. All that a man hath will he give 
 for his life. 
 
 R. Hall. Nature and Danger of Evil Com- 
 munications. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 33. Evil communications cor- 
 rupt good manners. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Points of Agreement in the State of 
 
 the Rich and the Poor. 
 
 Prov. 22: 2. The rich and poor meet to- 
 gether j the Lord is the maker of them all. 
 
 The Carnal and Spiritual Mind con- 
 trasted. 
 
 Rom 8: 6. For to be carnally minded is 
 death ; but to be spiritually minded is life 
 and peace. 
 
 Simeon. Duty of casting our Care on God. 
 
 1 Pet. 5: 7. Casting all your care upon 
 him ; for he careth for you. 
 
 Simeon. Importance of being in Favour with 
 God. 
 
 Job 34: 29. When he giveth quietness, 
 who then can make trouble 1 and when he 
 hideth his face, who then can behold him 1 
 whether it be done against a nation, or 
 against a man only. 
 
90 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Folly of Departing from the Simpli- 
 city of the Gospel. 
 
 Gal. 3: 1. O foolish Galatians, who hath 
 bewitched you, that ye should not obey the 
 truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath 
 been evidently set forth, crucified among 
 you 1 
 
 The World and the Christian's God 
 contrasted. 
 
 Mich. 4: 5. For all people will walk every 
 one of the name of his god, and we w T ill 
 walk in the name of the Lord our God 
 for ever and ever. 
 
 The good Effects of a candid At- 
 tention to the Gospel. 
 
 Acts 17: 11, 12. These were more noble 
 than those in Thessalonica, in that they 
 received the word with all readiness of mind , 
 and searched the scriptures daily, whether 
 those things were so. Therefore many of 
 them believed ; also of honourable women 
 which were Greeks, and of men not a few. 
 
 The Duty of Trusting in God. 
 
 Jer. 17: 58. Blessed is the man that trust- 
 eth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord 
 
 Simeon. Consequences of Neglecting Prayer. 
 
 Isa. 64: 7. And there is none that calleth 
 upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to 
 take hold of theej for thou hast hid thy 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 91 
 
 face from us, and hast consumed us, be- 
 cause of our iniquities. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Duty of Persevering in Prayer. 
 
 Luke 18: 1. And he spake a parable unto 
 them to this end, that men ought always 
 to pray, and not to faint. 
 
 Simeon, Fruits of God's Favour. 
 
 Hos. 14: 5-7. I will be as the dew unto 
 Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast 
 forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches 
 shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the 
 olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They 
 that dwell under his shadow shall return ; 
 they shall revive as the corn, and grow as 
 the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the 
 wine of Lebanon. 
 
 Necessity of Faith in Christ. 
 
 John 3: 36. He that believeth on the Son 
 hath everlasting life ; and he that believeth 
 not the Son shall not see life; but the 
 wrath of God abideth on him. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Means of Attaining True Wisdom. 
 
 2 Cor. 3: 18. If any man among you seem- 
 eth to be wiee in this world, let him become 
 a fool, that he may be wise. 
 
 The Danger of Defiling God's Tern- 
 
 pie. 
 
 1 Cor. 3: 16, 17. Know ye not that ye are 
 the temple of God, and that the Spirit of 
 
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 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 God dwelleth in you 1 If any man defile 
 the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; 
 for the temple of God is holy, which temple 
 ye are. 
 
 Simeon. Moderation in the Use of Earthly 
 Things. 
 
 1 Cor. 7: 29-31. But this I say, brethren, 
 The time is short. It remaineth, that both 
 they that have wives, be as though they had 
 none ; and they that weep, as though they 
 wept not ; and they that rejoice, as though 
 they rejoiced not ; and they that buy, as 
 though they possessed not ; and they that 
 use this world, as not abusing it: for the 
 fashion of this world passeth away. 
 
 Consequences of Sloth. 
 
 Prov. 20: 4. The sluggard will not plough 
 by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he 
 beg in harvest, and have nothing. 
 
 The Sinfulness of Murmuring against 
 God. 
 
 Prov. 19: 3. The foolishness of man per- 
 verteth his way; andhis heart fretteth against 
 the Lord. 
 
 Simeon. The Folly of Creature Confidence. 
 
 Hos. 5: 13. When Ephraim saw his sick- 
 ness, and Judah saw his wound, then went 
 Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king 
 Jareb; yet could he not heal you, nor cure 
 you of your wound. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 93 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Danger of Pride. 
 
 Hos. 5: 5. And the pride of Israel doth 
 testify to his face. 
 
 Against Self-Confidence. 
 
 1 Cor. 10: 12. Wherefore let him that 
 thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. 
 
 Against an Over-Righteous Spirit. 
 Eccl. 7: 16. Be not righteous over much. 
 
 Means of Security against the Mal- 
 ice of Satan. 
 
 Luke 22: 3 1, 32. And the Lord said, Simon, 
 Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have 
 you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I 
 have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail 
 not ; and when thou art converted, stengthen 
 thy brethren. 
 
 Simeon. The Good Old Way. 
 
 Jer. 6: 16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in 
 the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, 
 where is the good way, and walk therein, 
 and ye shall find rest for your souls. 
 
 Simeon. God's Assistance a Motive to Effort. 
 
 Phil. 2: 12, 13. Wherefore, my beloved, 
 as ye have always obeyed, not as in my 
 presence only, but now much more in my 
 absence, work out your own salvation with 
 fear and trembling. For it is God which 
 worketh in you both to will and to do of 
 his good pleasure. 
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94 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Simeon. Duties of Moderation and Watch- 
 fulness. 
 
 1 Thess. 5: 8. But let us, who are of the 
 day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of 
 faith and love j and for a helmet, the hope 
 of salvation. 
 
 Simeon. How to seek Heaven with Success. 
 
 1 Pet. 1: 13. Wherefore gird up the loins of 
 your mind, be sober, and hope to the end 
 for the grace that is to be brought unto you 
 at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Simeon. Christianity intended to promote our 
 Happiness. 
 
 John 15: 11. These things have I spoken 
 unto you, that my joy might remain in you, 
 and that your joy might be full. 
 
 Simeon. Necessity of Holy Fear. 
 
 1 Pet. 1: 17. Pass the time of your so- 
 journing here in fear. 
 
 Simeon. Immoderate Desires reproved. 
 
 Jer. 45: 5. And seekest thou great things 
 for thyself! seek them not. 
 
 Simeon. Exhortation to Diligence. 
 
 Heb. 6: 12. That ye be not slothful. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 95 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Gift of the Spirit an Encour- 
 agement to Obedience. 
 
 John 14: 15-17. If ye love me, keep my 
 commandments. And I will pray the Father, 
 and he shall give you another Comforter, 
 that he may abide with, you for ever ; 
 even the Spirit of truth; whom the world 
 cannot receive, because it seeth him not, 
 neither knoweth him : but ye know him ; 
 for he dwelleth in you, and shall be in you. 
 
 The Reward of Obeying the Gospel. 
 
 James 1: 25. But whoso looketh into the 
 perfect law of liberty, and continueth there- 
 in, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer 
 of the f work, this man shall be blessed in 
 his deed. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Preservation from Sin more desira- 
 ble than deliverance from Afflic- 
 tion. 
 
 John 17: 15. I pray not that thou shouldest 
 take them out of the world, but that thou 
 shouldest keep them from the evil. 
 
 On following Good Examples. 
 
 Phil. 3: 17. Brethren, be followers togeth- 
 er of me, and mark them which walk so as 
 ye have us for an ensample. 
 
 The Importance of Preparing for 
 
 our Great Account. 
 Job 31: 14. What then shall I do when 
 
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 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 God riseth up 1 and when he visiteth, what 
 shall I answer him 1 
 
 Simeon. Encouragement in God. 
 
 1 Sam. 30: 6. But David encouraged him- 
 self in the Lord his God. 
 
 Simeon. Paul's Meekness. 
 
 1 Cor. 4: 12, 13. And labour, working with 
 our own hands : being reviled, we blsss ; 
 being persecuted, we suffer it : being de- 
 famed, we entreat : we are made as the 
 filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of 
 all things unto this day. 
 
 Simeon. We should flee from Sin with Ab- 
 horrence. 
 
 Gen. 39: 9. How then can I do this great 
 wickedness, and sin against God 1 
 
 Simeon. Job's Patience. 
 
 James 5: 11. Ye have heard of the patience 
 of Job. 
 
 Simeon. Humiliation for the Sin of the 
 
 Heart. 
 
 2 Chron. 32: 26. Nothwithstanding, Heze- 
 kiah humbled himself for the pride of his 
 heart, both he and the inhabitants of Je- 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 97 
 
 rusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord 
 came not upon them in the days of Heze- 
 kiah. 
 
 Simeon. The Magnanimity of the Apostles. 
 
 Acts 5: 41, 42. And they departed from the 
 presence of the council, rejoicing that 
 they were counted worthy to suffer shame 
 for his name. And daily in the temple, and 
 in every house, they ceased not to teach 
 and preach Jesus Christ. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Man his Brother's Keeper. 
 
 Gen. 4: 9. Am I my brother's keeper \ 
 
 D. A. Clark. Wrath Conquered by Love. 
 
 Rom. 12: 21. Be not overcome of evil, but 
 overcome evil with good. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Enlightened Conscience Un- 
 
 bending. 
 
 1 Cor. 8: 13. Wherefore, if meat make my 
 brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while 
 the world standeth, lest I make my brother 
 to offend. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Wise Man Wise for Futurity. 
 
 Deut. 32: 29. O that they were wise, that 
 they understood this, that they would con- 
 sider their latter end ! 
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98 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Smalley. On Self-Love; or Regarding our 
 own Happiness. 
 
 Heb. 11: 26. Esteeming the reproach of 
 Christ greater riches than the treasures in 
 Egypt : for he had respect unto the recom- 
 pense of the reward, 
 
 Smalley. The Universal Sinfulness of Man- 
 kind, 
 
 1 John 1: 8. If we say that we have no 
 sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is 
 not in us. 
 
 Smalley, Perpetual Trouble the Universal 
 Inheritance of the Race of Adam. 
 
 Job 5: 7. Yet man is born unto trouble, as 
 the sparks fly upward. 
 
 Smalley. On the Esteem and Friendship of 
 our Fellow Men. 
 
 Prov. 22: 1. A good name is rather to be 
 chosen than great riches, and loving fa- 
 vour rather than silver and gold. 
 
 Smalley. Veracity to be inviolably main- 
 tained between Man and Man. 
 
 Eph. 4: 25. Wherefore putting away lying, 
 speak every man truth with his neighbour : 
 for w r e are members one of another. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 99 
 
 Smalley. On Virtuous and Sinful Anger. 
 
 Eph. 4: 26. Be ye angry, and sin not : let 
 not the sun go down upon your wrath. 
 
 Smalley. Humbleness of Mind a necessary 
 
 Preparation for future Glory. 
 
 Mat. 5: 5. Blessed are the meek: for they 
 shall inherit the earth. 
 
 Smalley. The certain Compensation of mer- 
 ciful Men. 
 
 Mat. 5: 7. Blessed are the merciful : for 
 they shall obtain mercy. 
 
 Dana. 
 
 Dana 
 
 Faith and Practice. 
 
 1 Tim. 6: 3. If any man teach otherwise, 
 and consent not to wholesome words, even 
 the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to 
 the doctrine whichis according to godliness. 
 
 Religion our own Choice. 
 
 Josh. 24: 15. And if it seem evil unto you 
 to serve the Lord, choose you this day 
 whom ye will serve. 
 
 Dana. God's Glory Man's Supreme End 
 
 and Happiness. 
 
 1 Cor. 10: 31. Whether therefore ye eat, 
 or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to 
 the glory of God. 
 
100 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Dana. Excellence of Religion. 
 
 Prov. 12: 26. The righteous is more ex- 
 cellent than his neighbour. 
 
 Dan. 
 
 Happiness of Life. 
 
 Ps. 34: 8. O taste and see that the Lord 
 is good : blessed is the man that trusteth in 
 him. 
 
 Dana. The Standard of Honour. 
 
 Prov. 3: 35. The wise shall inherit glory : 
 but shame shall be the promotion of fools. 
 
 Dana. Good Company recommended. 
 
 Ps. 119: 63. I am a companion of all them 
 that fear thee, and of them that keep thy 
 precepts. 
 
 Dana. Caution against Bad Company. 
 
 Ps. 1: 1. Blessed is the man that walketh 
 not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand- 
 eth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the 
 seat of the scornful. 
 
 Dana. Caution against Bad Books. 
 
 Prov. 19: 27. Cease, my son, to hear the in- 
 struction that causeth to err from the words 
 of knowledge. 
 
Dana. 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 101 
 
 Dana. Frugality. 
 
 John 6: 12. When they were filled, he said 
 unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments 
 that remain, that nothing be lost. 
 
 Dissipation. 
 
 2 Tim. 3: 4. Lovers of pleasures more than 
 lovers of God. 
 
 Tholuck. Causes of Fruitless Resolutions. 
 
 Ps. 119: 67. Before I was afflicted I went 
 astray, but now have I kept thy word. 
 
 Tholuck. Inquiry concerning the Work of 
 God. 
 Numb. 23: 23. What hath God wrought ! 
 
 McWhorter. Excellencies and Evils of the 
 Tongue. 
 
 James 3: 6. And the tongue is a fire, a 
 world of iniquity: so is the tongue among 
 our members, that it defileth the whole body, 
 and setteth on fire the course of nature j 
 and it is set on fire of hell. 
 
 A. Lee. The Human Character determined 
 only by God. 
 1 Cor. 4: 3, 4. But with me it is a very 
 
102 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 A. Lee. 
 
 small thing that I should be judged of you, 
 or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine 
 own self. For I know nothing of myself; 
 yet am I not hereby justified : but he that 
 judgeth me is the Lord. 
 
 Characters will be 
 Justice awarded. 
 
 disclosed and 
 
 1 Cor. 4: 5. Who both will bring to light 
 the hidden things of darkness, and will 
 make manifest the counsels of the hearts. 
 
 Lathrop. The Guilt and Danger of Unbe- 
 lief. 
 
 Isa. 53: 1. Who hath believed our report 1 
 and to whom is the arm of the Lord re- 
 vealed] 
 
 Lathrop. Pilate's Indifference to Truth. 
 
 John 18: 38. Pilate saith unto him, What 
 is truth 1 
 
 Lathrop. The Influence of Religion to en- 
 large the Mind. 
 
 2 Cor. 6: 13. Now for a recompense in 
 the same, (1 speak as unto my children,) be 
 ye also enlarged. 
 
 Lathrop. God is to be Glorified in all our 
 Actions. 
 1 Pet. 4: 11. If any man speak, let him 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 103 
 
 speak as the oracles of God ; if any man 
 minister, let him do it as of the ability 
 which God giveth : that God in all things 
 may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to 
 whom be praise and dominion forever and 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 Lathrop. Avarice and Dishonesty covered 
 with the Pretext of Prudence and 
 Charity. 
 Mat. 26: 8. To what purpose is this waste 1 
 
 Lathrop. The Wisdom and Importance of 
 
 Religion. 
 
 Prov. 4: 7. Wisdom is the principal thing ; 
 therefore get wisdom : and with all thy get- 
 ting get understanding. 
 
 Lathrop. The Peace and Safety of the 
 Good Man. 
 
 Ps. 4:8. I will both lay me down in peace, 
 and sleep : for thou, Lord, only makest me 
 dwell in safety. 
 
 Lathrop. Morning Devotions. 
 
 Ps. 5: 3. My voice shalt thou hear in the 
 morning, Lord ; in the morning will I di- 
 rect my prayer unto thee, and will Jook up. 
 
 Lathrop. Beasts and Birds Preaching to Man. 
 
 Job 12: 7. But ask now the beasts, and 
 they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the 
 air, and they shall tell thee. 
 
104 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Lathrop. Universal Obligation of Religion. 
 
 2 Kings 17: 40, 41. Howbeit they did not 
 hearken, but they did after their former 
 manner. So these nations feared the Lord, 
 and served their graven images, both their 
 children, and their children's children : as 
 did their fathers, so do they unto this day. 
 
 Lathrop. Folly Conspicuous in a Virtuous 
 Character. 
 
 Eccl. 10: 1. Dead flies cause the ointment 
 of the apothecary to send forth a stinking 
 savour : so doth a little folly him that is in 
 reputation for wisdom and honour. 
 
 Lathrop. Death and Judgment. 
 
 Heb. 9: 27. And as it is appointed unto 
 men once to die, but after this the judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Lathrop. Impiety of alleging God's Prom- 
 ise as a Reason for Neglecting 
 Duty. 
 
 Mat. 4: 5-7. Then the devil taketh him up 
 into the holy city, and setteth him on a 
 pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto 
 him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thy- 
 self down, for it is written, He shall give 
 his angels charge concerning thee : and in 
 their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at 
 any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 
 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, 
 Thou shalt not tempt ,the Lord thy God. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 105 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Jesus rising Early for Secret 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 Mark 1: 35. And in the morning, rising 
 up a great while before day, he went out, 
 and departed into a solitary place, and there 
 prayed. 
 
 Lathrop. Necessity of Settled Principles in 
 
 Religion. 
 
 Gen. 49: 4. Unstable as water, thou shalt 
 not excel. 
 
 J. Clark. An Evil Heart of Unbelief. 
 
 Heb. 3: 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there 
 be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, 
 in departing from the living God. 
 
 J. Clark. Improving Religious Advantages. 
 
 Mat. 13: 12. For whosoever hath, to him 
 shall be given, and he shall have more abun- 
 dance : but whosoever hath not, from him 
 shall be taken away even that he hath. 
 
 Tappan. 
 
 Tapp 
 
 AN. 
 
 Duty of taking no Thought for the 
 
 Morrow. 
 
 Mat. 6: 34. Take therefore no thought for 
 the morrow: for the morrow shall take 
 thought for the things of itself. Sufficient 
 unto the day is the evil thereof. 
 
 Religion the One Thing Needful. 
 Luke 10: 42. But one thing is needful. 
 10 
 
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 HORNE. 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Blessings of a Cheerful Heart. 
 
 Prov. 17: 22. A merry heart doeth good 
 like medicine. 
 
 HORNE. 
 
 HORNE. 
 
 HORNE. 
 
 On the Government of the Thoughts. 
 
 Prov. 17: 22. Keep thy heart with all dili- 
 gence. 
 
 Character of True Wisdom, and 
 
 Means of obtaining it. 
 
 Prov. 4: 7. Wisdom is the principal thing, 
 therefore get wisdom. 
 
 The different Condition of Men in 
 the present and future World. 
 
 Luke 16: 25. But Abraham said, Son, re- 
 member that thou in thy lifetime receivedst 
 thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil 
 things : but now he is comforted, and thou 
 art tormented. 
 
 Blair. 
 
 Union of Piety and Morality. 
 
 Acts 10: 4. Thy prayers and thine alms are 
 come up for a memorial before God. 
 
 Blair. Influence of Religion upon Adver- 
 sity. 
 
 Ps. 27: 5. For in the time of trouble he 
 shall hide me in his pavilion : in the secret 
 of his tabernacle shall he hide me j he shall 
 set me upon a rock. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 107 
 
 Blair. Influence of Religion upon Pros- 
 perity. 
 
 Ps 1: 3. And he shall be like a tree planted 
 by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth 
 his fruit in his season : his leaf also shall not 
 wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall pros- 
 per. 
 
 Blair. Our Imperfect Knowledge of a Fu- 
 ture State. 
 
 1 Cor. 13: 12. For now we see through a 
 glass darkly. 
 
 Blair. 
 
 Disorders of the Passions. 
 
 Esther 5: 13. Yet all this availeth me noth- 
 ing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sit- 
 ting at the king's gate. 
 
 Blair. Our Ignorance of Good and Evil. 
 
 Eccl. 6: 12. For who knoweth what is 
 good for man in this life, all the days of 
 his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow 1 
 for who can tell a man what shall be after 
 him under the sun? 
 
 r 
 
 Blair. 
 
 Blair. 
 
 Devotion. 
 
 Acts 10: 2. Cornelius — a devout man. 
 
 Power of Conscience. 
 
 Gen. 42: 21, 22. And they said one to 
 another, We are verily guilty concerning 
 
108 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 our brother, in that we saw the anguish of 
 his soul, when he besought us, and we 
 would not hear : therefore is this distress 
 come upon us. And Reuben answered them, 
 saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do 
 not sin against the child ; and ye would 
 not hear 1 therefore, behold, also his blood 
 is required. 
 
 Blair. Motives to Constancy in Virtue. 
 
 Gal. 6: 9. Let us not be weary in well- 
 doing : for in due season we shall reap if 
 we faint not. 
 
 Blair. Importance of Order in Conduct. 
 
 1 Cor. 14: 40. Let all things be done de- 
 cently and in order. 
 
 Blair. Danger of Evil Thoughts. 
 
 Prov. 30: 32. If thou hast thought evil, 
 lay thine hand upon thy mouth. 
 
 S. S. Smith. Folly and Guilt of being Ashamed 
 
 of Christ. 
 
 Mark 1 8: 38. Whosoever therefore shall 
 be ashamed of me and of my words in this 
 adulterous and sinful generation ; of him 
 also shall the Son of man be ashamed, 
 when he cometh in the glory of his Father 
 with the holy angels. 
 
 MOORE. 
 
 Disobedience. 
 
 Gen. 3: 6. And when the woman saw that 
 the tree was good for food, and that it was 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 109 
 
 pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be de- 
 sired to make one wise, she took of the fruit 
 thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her 
 husband with her ; and he did eat. 
 
 Fairfax. 
 
 Forgetfulness of our Sins. 
 
 Hos. 7: 2. And they consider not in their 
 hearts that I remember all their wicked- 
 ness ; now their own doings have beset 
 them about ; they are before my face. 
 
 Perkins. 
 
 Public Spirit. 
 
 Ex. 32: 32. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive 
 their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, 
 out of thy book which thou hast written. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 Preparation for Death. 
 
 Mat. 24: 44. Therefore be ye also ready : 
 for in such an hour as ye think not the Son 
 of man cometh. 
 
 Burder. , Universal Good News. 
 
 Mark 16: 15. And he said unto them, Go 
 ye into all the world, and preach the gospel 
 to every creature. 
 
 Burder. 
 
 Sin Odious to God. 
 
 Jer. 44: 4. Oh, do not this abominable 
 thing that I hate. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On the Love of Distinction. 
 
 John 12: 43. For they loved the praise of 
 men more than the praise of God. 
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110 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On Independence of Mind. 
 
 Josh. 1: 6, 7. Be strong and of a good 
 courage : for unto this people shalt thou 
 divide for an inheritance the land which I 
 sware unto their fathers to give them. Only 
 be thou strong and very courageous, that 
 thou mayest observe to do according to 
 all the law which Moses my servant com- 
 manded thee : turn not from it to the right 
 hand or to the left, that thou mayest pros- 
 per whithersoever thou goest. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On Doing Good. 
 
 Gal. 6: 10. As we have therefore opportu- 
 nity, let us do good unto all men. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Folly of Trusting our own 
 
 Hearts. 
 
 Prov. 28: 26. He that trusteth in his own 
 heart is a fool. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On Sloth. 
 
 Prov. 24: 30-32. I went by the field of the 
 slothful, and by the vineyard of the man 
 void of understanding ; and lo, it was all 
 grown over with thorns, and nettles had 
 covered the face thereof, and the stone 
 wall thereof was broken down. Then I 
 saw, and considered it well : I looked upon 
 if, and received instruction. 
 
 Zollikofer. Value of Solitude. 
 
 Mark 1: 12. And immediately the spirit 
 driveth him into the wilderness. 
 
MAN AS A BEING. Ill 
 
 Zollikofer. Value of Friendship. 
 
 Prov. 18: 24. A man that hath friends must 
 show himself friendly ; and there is a friend 
 that sticketh closer than a brother. 
 
 Zollikofer. Value of Learning. 
 
 1 Kings 10: 8. Happy are thy men, happy 
 are these thy servants, which stand contin- 
 ually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. 
 
 Zollikofer. Value of Civil and Religious Lib- 
 erty. 
 
 1 Cor. 7: 23. Ye are bought with a price ; 
 be not ye the servants of men. 
 
 Zollikofer. Value of Afflictions. 
 
 Heb. 12: 11. Now no chastening for the 
 present seemeth to be joyous, but griev- 
 ous : nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the 
 peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them 
 which are exercised thereby. 
 
 Zollikofer. Value of a Good Reputation. 
 
 Prov. 22: 1. A good name is rather to be 
 chosen than great riches, and loving favour 
 rather than silver and gold. 
 
 Zollikofer. Difference between Prosperity 
 
 and Happiness. 
 
 Eccl 2: 10, 11. And whatsoever mine eyes 
 desired I kept not from them. I withheld 
 not my heart from any joy ; for my heart 
 rejoiced in all my labour j and this was my 
 
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112 
 
 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 portion of all my labour. Then I looked on 
 all the works that my hands had wrought, 
 and on the labour that I had laboured to do : 
 and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of 
 spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 
 
 Zollikofer. Sources of Human Happiness. 
 
 Ps. 34: 8. O taste and see that the Lord 
 is good : blessed is the man that trusteth in 
 him. 
 
 Pres. Humphrey. Union is Strength. 
 
 Gen. 11: 6. And the Lord said, Behold, the 
 people is one, and they have all one lan- 
 guage ; and this they begin to do : and now 
 nothing will be restrained from them, which 
 they have imagined to do. 
 
 Leighton. Nature and Importance of Heavenly 
 
 Wisdom. 
 
 James 3: 17. But the wisdom that is from 
 above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, 
 and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and 
 good fruits, without partiality, and without 
 hypocrisy. 
 
 Leighton. Present Duty. 
 
 John 21:22. What is that to thee'? Fol- 
 low thou me. 
 
 Leighton. Folly of Man and the Teaching of 
 God. 
 
 Jer. 10: 23, 24. Lord, I know that the 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 113 
 
 way of man is not in himself: it is not in 
 man that walketh to direct his steps. 
 
 Lord, 
 
 ., correct me, but witn judgment ; 
 not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to 
 nothing. 
 
 Massilon. On the Small Number of the Saved. 
 
 Luke 4: 27. And many lepers were in 
 Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet ; 
 and none of them was cleansed, saving Naa- 
 man the Syrian. 
 
 Massilon. On the Employment of Time. 
 
 John 7: 33. Then said Jesus unto them, 
 Yet a little while am I with you, and then I 
 go unto him that sent me. 
 
 Massilon. On False Trust. 
 
 Luke 24: 21. But we trusted that it had 
 been he which should have redeemed Israel. 
 
 Massilon. On the Vices and Virtues of the 
 Great. 
 
 Mat. 4: 8. Again, the devil taketh him 
 up into an exceeding high mountain, and 
 showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, 
 and the glory of them. 
 
 Massilon. The Injustice of the World towards 
 
 the Godly. 
 
 John 9: 24. Give God the praise : we know 
 that this man is a sinner. 
 
114 MAN AS A BEING. 
 
 Massilon. The Truth of Religion. 
 
 Mat. 8: 10. Verily I say unto you, I have 
 not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 
 
 Massilon. Doubts upon Religion. 
 
 John 7: 27. Howbeit, we know this man, 
 whence he is : but when Christ cometh, no 
 man knoweth whence he is. 
 
 H. A. Boardman. Piety essential to Man's Tem- 
 poral Prosperity. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 8. For bodily exercise profiteth 
 little : but godliness is profitable unto all 
 things, having promise of the life that now 
 is, and of that which is to come. 
 
 Austin. The Incomparable Excellency of 
 Religion in the Life of Man. 
 
 Deut. 32: 47. For it is not a vain thing 
 for you j because it is your life : and through 
 this thing ye shall prolong your days in the 
 land, whither ye go over Jordan to pos* 
 sess it. 
 
 L. Withington. The Soul of Man. 
 
 Gen. 2: 7. And man became a living soul. 
 
 H. Bushnell. Living to God in Small Things. 
 
 Luke 16: 10. He that is faithful in that 
 which is least, is faithful in much j and 
 he that is unjust in the least, is unjust 
 also in much, 
 
MAN AS A BEING. 115 
 
 J. Todd. The Guilt and Danger of Secret 
 
 Sins. 
 
 Ps. 19: 12. Who can understand his er- 
 rors 1 cleanse thou me from secret faults. 
 
 J. Todd. Selfishness the Great Sin. 
 
 Phil. 2: 21. For all seek their own, not 
 the things which are Jesus Christ's. 
 
 Barrow. Obedience an Immediate Duty. 
 
 Ps. 119: 60. I made haste, and delayed 
 not to keep thy commandments. 
 
SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Pres. Appleton. Sinners without Excuse at 
 
 the Great Day. 
 
 Job 31: 14. What then shall I do when 
 God riseth up 1 and when he visiteth, what 
 shall I answer him 1 
 
 Pres. Appleton. Tendency of the Gospel when 
 rejected. 
 
 John 9: 39. And Jesus said, For judgment 
 I am come into this world, that they which 
 see not might see ; and that they which 
 see might be made blind. 
 
 Blunt. 
 
 Blunt. 
 
 The affectionate Invitation of the 
 
 Saviour. 
 
 Mat. 11: 28. Come unto me, all ye that 
 labour and are heavy laden, and I will give 
 you rest. 
 
 Acquaintance with God. 
 
 Job 22: 21. Acquaint thyself now with 
 him, and be at peace. 
 
 Jay, 
 
 The Unfruitful, Shameful, and De- 
 structive Characters of Sin. 
 Rom. 6: 21. What fruit had ye then in 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 117 
 
 those things whereof ye are now ashamed 1 
 for the end of those things is death. 
 
 ay. The Fearful Results of Contending 
 
 with God. % 
 
 Isa. 45: 9. Wo unto him that striveth with 
 his Maker. 
 
 Jay. God abandons the Incorrigible. 
 
 Hos. 4: 17. Ephraim is joined to idols : 
 let him alone. 
 
 ay. The Scripture despised. 
 
 Hos. 8: 12. I have written to him the great 
 things of my law, but they were counted 
 as a strange thing. 
 
 Jay. The Dissembling Sinner Detected 
 
 and Punished. 
 
 2 Kings 5: 20-27. 
 
 Jay. Dyhig Regrets. 
 
 Prov. 5: 11, 12. And thou mourn at the 
 last, when thy flesh and thy body are con- 
 sumed, and say, How have I hated instruc- 
 tion, and my heart despised reproof ! 
 
 Jay. The Secure Alarmed. 
 
 Amos 6: 1. Wo to them that are at ease 
 in Zion. 
 
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118 
 Jay. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 The Abuse of Divine Forbearance. 
 
 Eccl. 8: 11. Because sentence against an 
 evil work is not executed speedily, there- 
 fore the heart of the sons of men is fully 
 set in them to do evil. 
 
 Difference between the Righteous 
 
 and the Wicked. 
 
 1 John 3: 10. In this the children of God 
 are manifest, and the children of the devil : 
 whosoever doeth not righteousness is not 
 of God, neither he that loveth not his 
 brother. 
 
 Jay. Neutrality in Religion exposed. 
 
 Mat. 6: 24. No man can serve two mas- 
 ters: for either he will hate the one, and 
 love the other ; or else he will hold to the 
 one, and despise the other. Ye cannot 
 serve God and mammon. 
 
 Saurin. The Sinner in Hell. 
 
 Rev. 14: 11. And the smoke of their tor- 
 ment ascendeth up forever and ever : and 
 they have no rest day nor night, who wor- 
 ship the beast and his image, and whosoever 
 receiveththe mark of his name. 
 
 Saurin. The Doom of the Righteous and 
 the Wicked contrasted. 
 
 Rev. 21: 7, 8. He that overcometh shall 
 inherit all things ; and I will be his God, 
 and he shall be my son. But the fearful, 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 119 
 
 and unbelieving, and the abominable, and 
 murderers, and whoremongers, and sor- 
 cerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall 
 have their part in the lake which burneth 
 with fire and brimstone : which is the 
 second death. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
 God's Controversy. 
 
 Micah 6: 1-3. Hear ye now what the Lord 
 saith; Arise, contend thou before the 
 mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 
 Hear ye, mountains, the Lord's contro- 
 versy, and ye strong foundations of the 
 earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with 
 his people, and he will plead with Israel. O 
 my people, what have I done unto thee % 
 and wherein have I wearied thee 1 testify 
 against me. 
 
 The Sentence passed upon Judas. 
 
 Mat. 26: 24. It had been good for that 
 man if he had not been born. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
 Bedell. 
 Kollock. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
 The Sinner his own Destroyer. 
 
 Hos. 13: 9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed 
 thyself. 
 
 On the Delay of Conversion. 
 
 Isa. 55: 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may 
 be found, call ye upon him while he is near. 
 
 The Unpardonable Sin. 
 
 Heb. 6: 4-6. For it is impossible for those 
 
120 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 who were once enlightened, and have tasted 
 of the heavenly gift, and were made parta- 
 kers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the 
 good word of Go'd, and the powers of the 
 world to come, if they shall fall away, to 
 renew them again unto repentance ; seeing 
 they crucify to themselves the Son of God 
 afresh, and put him to an open shame. 
 
 Saurin. Regeneration its Nature, Necessity 
 and Author. 
 John 3: 1-8. 
 
 L. Beecher. The Native Character of llan. 
 
 1 John 4: 7. Every one thaUMoveth is 
 born of God. 
 
 C. Wilcox. The Unreasonableness of Indeci- 
 sion. 
 
 Acts 26: 28. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, 
 Almost thou persuadest me to be a Chris- 
 tian. 
 
 A. W. Leland. The Pure Gospel rejected by 
 the Perishing. 
 1 Cor. 1: 18. For \\\e preaching of the 
 cross is to them that perish foolishness 5 
 but unto us which are saved it is the power 
 of God. 
 
 A. V. Griswold. The Malady and Physician of 
 
 the Soul. 
 
 Luke 5: 31. They that are whole need not 
 a physician ; but they that are sick. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 121 
 
 B. Tyler. Free Salvation. 
 
 Rev. 22: 17. Whosoever will, let him take 
 of the water of life freely. 
 
 T. Snell. Sovereign Grace. 
 
 Rom. 9: 21. Hath not the potter power 
 over the clay, of the same lump to make 
 one vessel unto honour, and another unto 
 dishonour] 
 
 R. Emerson. The Chief Evil of Sin. 
 
 Ps. 1: 4. Against thee, thee only, have I 
 sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. 
 
 B. Green. Evangelical Truths offensive to the 
 
 Unrenewed, but joyous to the 
 
 Believer. 
 
 Mat. 11: 6. And blessed is he, whosoever 
 shall not be offended in me. 
 
 A. Hyde. The Nature and Reasonableness of 
 Submitting to God. 
 
 2 Kings 7: 3-4. And there were four 
 leprous men at the entering in of the gate : 
 and they said one to another, Why sit we 
 here until we diel If we say, we will 
 enter into the city, then the famine is in the 
 city, and we shall die there : and if we sit 
 still here, we die also. Now therefore 
 come, and let us fall unto the host of the 
 Syrians : if they save us alive, we shall 
 live : and if they kill us, we shall but die. 
 11* 
 
122 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 J. M. Mason. Assurance of Faith and Hope. 
 
 2 Tim. 1: 12. I know whom I have be- 
 lieved, and am persuaded that he is able to 
 keep that which I have committed unto him 
 against that day. 
 
 J. Matthews. The Sinner's Imminent Danger. 
 
 Mat. 7: 13. Wide is the gate, and broad is 
 the way, that leadeth to destruction, and 
 many there be which go in thereat. 
 
 J. Matthews. The Sinner's Immediate Duty. 
 Mat. 7: 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate. 
 
 H. Humphrey. A Dreadful Meeting. 
 
 Isa. 47: 3. I will take vengeance, and I 
 will not meet thee as a man. 
 
 M. Tucker. The Guilt of Inefficiency and De- 
 lay. 
 
 John 4: 14. How long shall thy vain 
 thoughts lodge within thee! 
 
 W. T. Hamilton. Why the Wicked are suffered 
 to live. 
 
 Job 21: 7. Wherefore do the wicked live X 
 
 W. Mitchell. The Facility with which the 
 Wicked go to Destruction. 
 Mat. 7: 13. Broad is the way, &c. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 123 
 
 J. McDowell. Human Depravity and its Rem- 
 edy. 
 
 John 15: 3. Now ye are clean through the 
 word which I have spoken unto you. 
 
 S. K. Kollock. Conviction by the Law. 
 
 E. Pond. Rom. 7: 9. For I was alive without the 
 
 law once ; but when the commandment 
 came, sin revived, and I died. 
 
 J. Parker. Conviction of Sinners at the Judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Jude 14, 15. And Enoch also, the seventh 
 from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, 
 Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thou- 
 sand of his saints, to execute judgment 
 upon all, and to convince all that are un- 
 godly among them of all their ungodly 
 deeds which they have ungodly committed, 
 and of all their hard speeches which ungod- 
 ly sinners have spoken against him. 
 
 E. W. Hooker. The Sinner and not the Be- 
 liever Deranged. 
 
 Acts 26: 24, 25. And as he thus spake for 
 himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, 
 thou art beside thyself; much learning doth 
 make thee mad. But he said, I am not 
 mad, most noble Festus ; but speak forth 
 the words of truth and soberness. 
 
124 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 W. B. Sprague. The Probability of Perdition 
 inferred from present Impeni- 
 tence. 
 
 Rev. 22: 11. He that is unjust, let him be 
 unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him 
 be filthy still. 
 
 W. B. Sprague. The Wicked surprised by their 
 
 own Destruction. 
 
 Lam. 1: 9. She remembereth not her last 
 end ; therefore she came down wonder- 
 fully. 
 
 N. Porter. Sinners avoid Conviction. 
 
 John 3: 20. For every one that doeth evil 
 hateth the light. 
 
 G. N. Judd. Sinners urged to a Reconciliation 
 Pres. Da vies, with God. 
 
 2 Cor. 5: 20. Now then we are ambas- 
 sadors for Christ, as though God did be- 
 seech you by us: we pray you in Christ's 
 stead, be ye reconciled to God. 
 
 T. S. Barrett. The Foolish Rich Man. 
 Luke 12: 16-20. 
 
 G. A. Calhoun. The Character, Conduct and 
 Destiny of the Jailer and Felix 
 contrasted. 
 
 Acts 16: 29-34, and 24: 25-27. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 125 
 
 B. Tyler. Human and Divine Agency united. 
 
 N.Emmons. Phil. 2: 12,13. Work out your own sal- 
 vation with fear and trembling : for it is God 
 that worketh in you both to will and to do 
 of his good pleasure. 
 
 L.Beecher. John 15:5. Without me ye can do nothing. 
 
 J. Holmes. The Measure of the Sinner's Duty. 
 
 2. Cor. 8: 12. For if there be first a willing 
 mind, it is accepted according to that a man 
 hath, and not according to that he hath not. 
 
 A. Edson. God's Claims and the Sinner's Im- 
 mediate Duty. 
 
 1 Sam. 15: 22. And Samuel said, Hath the 
 Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and 
 sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the 
 Lord 1 Behold, to obey is better than sac- 
 rifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 
 
 P. Cooke. The Unknown Depths of Sin. 
 
 Luke 23: 34. They know not what they do. 
 
 W. B. Sprague. Choosing the Good Part. 
 
 Luke 10: 42. Mary hath chosen that good 
 part, which shall not be taken away from 
 her. 
 
 M. Tucker. Alarm to the Careless. 
 
 Isa. 32: 11. Be troubled, ye careless ones. 
 
126 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 W. Nevins. The Solemn Question answered. 
 Jer. 8: 6. What have I done 1 
 
 R. S. Storrs. Preparation to meet God. 
 
 Amos 4: 12. Prepare to meet thy God. 
 
 B. Dickinson. The Ground of the Difficulty of 
 
 Conversion. 
 
 Jer. 2: 25. Thou saidst, There is no hope : 
 no ; for I have loved strangers, and after 
 them will I go. 
 
 T. E. Vermilye. The Guilt of Unbelief. 
 
 John 16: 9. Of sin, because they believe 
 not on me. 
 
 G. C. Beckwith. The Danger and Folly of De- 
 lay. 
 
 Acts 24: 25. And as he reasoned of right- 
 eousness, temperance, and judgment to 
 come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go 
 thy way for this time ; when I have a con- 
 venient season, I will call for thee. 
 
 J. Mann. The Obstinate Perverseness of Men. 
 
 Jer. 8: 5. They hold fast to deceit ; they 
 refuse to return. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 127 
 
 J. M. Matthews. Critical Periods in the Sin- 
 ner's Life. 
 
 Luke 19: 42-44. This thy day— the time 
 of thy gracious visitation. 
 
 J. Milnor. Parable of the Tares. 
 
 Mat. 13: 24-30. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Sinner's desperate Deprav- 
 ity. 
 
 Jer. 3: 5. Behold, thou hast spoken and done 
 evil things as thou couldest. 
 
 J. Milnor. The State and Character of the 
 Natural Man, and the Agency by 
 which he is Rescued from Spirit- 
 ual Death. 
 
 Eph. 2: 1. And you hath he quickened, who 
 were dead in trespasses and sins. 
 
 W. T. Hamilton. Perdition Dreadful. 
 
 Ps. 26: 9. Gather not my soul with sin- 
 ners. 
 
 E. Pond. Necessity and Means of Regenera- 
 tion. 
 
 John 3: 3. Jesus answered and said unto 
 him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except 
 a man be born again, he cannot see the 
 kingdom of God. 
 
128 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 B. M. Palmer. The Sinner arraigned and con- 
 
 Pres.Davies. victed. 
 
 Dan. 5: 27. TEKEL ; Thou art weighed 
 in the balances, and art found wanting. 
 
 R. W. Bailey. The Nature, Necessity, and Ev- 
 idences of Repentance. 
 
 Acts 2: 38. Then Peter said unto them, 
 Repent, and be baptized every one of you 
 in the name of Jesus Christ for the remis- 
 sion of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of 
 the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Harvest past. 
 
 E. F. Cutter. Jer. 8: 26. The harvest is past, the summer 
 is ended, and we are not saved. 
 
 D. Magee. Carelessness about Religion unrea- 
 sonable. 
 
 Acts 18: 17. And Gallio cared for none of 
 those things. 
 
 N. Emmons. Reconciliation with God. 
 
 Mat. 5: 25, 26. Agree with thine adversary 
 quickly, while thou art in the way with 
 him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver 
 thee to the judge, and the judge deliver 
 thee to the officer, and thou be cast into 
 prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt 
 by no means come out thence, till thou hast 
 paid the uttermost farthing. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 129 
 
 G. Spring. The Alarming Power of Sin. 
 
 Jer. 13: 23. Can the Ethiopian change his 
 skin, or the leopard his spots 1 then may 
 ye also do good, that are accustomed to do 
 evil. 
 
 W. B. Sprague. The Abounding Grace of the 
 Gospel. 
 Luke 14: 22. And yet there is room. 
 
 Destructive Consequences of Self- 
 Flattery. 
 
 Prov. 14: 12. There is a way which seem- 
 eth right unto a man, but the end thereof 
 are the ways of death. 
 
 T. Edwards. The Sinner's Character, Course 
 and End. 
 
 Phil. 3: 18, 19. For many walk, of whom 
 I have told you often, and now tell you even 
 weeping, that they are the enemies of the 
 cross of Christ : whose end is destruction, 
 whose God is their belly, and whose glory 
 is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 
 
 Neglect of Present Duty the Ruin 
 of Man. 
 
 1 Kings 20: 40. And as thy servant was 
 busy here and there, he was gone. 
 12 
 
130 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Man's Opposition to Christ ground- 
 less. 
 
 John 15: 25. They hated me without a 
 cause. 
 
 S. P. Williams. Estimate of the World's Mo- 
 rality. 
 
 Mark 10: 21. Then Jesus beholding him 
 loved him, and said unto him, One thing 
 thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever 
 thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou 
 shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, 
 take up the cross, and follow me. 
 
 S. P. Williams. The Mount of Refuge. 
 
 Gen. 19: 17. Escape for thy life ; look 
 not behind thee, neither stay thou in all 
 the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest 
 thou be consumed. 
 
 S. P. Williams. The Guilt and Danger of Scan- 
 dalizing Souls. 
 
 Luke 17: 1, 2. Then said he unto the dis- 
 ciples, It is impossible but that offences 
 will come ; but wo unto him through whom 
 they come ! It were better for him that a 
 millstone were hanged about his neck, and 
 he cast into the sea, than that he should 
 offend one of these little ones. 
 
 S. P. Williams. Sinners Destroy Themselves 
 by their own Blindness. 
 Prov. 4: 19. The way of the wicked is as 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 131 
 
 darkness 3 they know not at what they 
 stumble. 
 
 S. P. Williams. The Plea of Sinners against 
 
 Endless Punishment answered. 
 
 Isa. 41: 21. Produce your cause, saith 
 the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons^ 
 saith the King of Jacob. 
 
 S. P. Williams. The Excuse of Sinners their 
 
 Condemnation. 
 
 Mat. 25: 24. Then he which had received 
 the one talent came, and said, Lord, I knew 
 thee that thou art a hard man, reaping 
 where thou hast not sown, and gathering 
 where thou hast not strewed. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Nature and Universality of 
 
 Spiritual Death. 
 
 Eph. 2: 1, 5. Who were dead in trespass- 
 es and sins. — Even when we were dead in 
 
 sins. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Doom of the Incorrigible. 
 
 Prov. 29: 1. He that being often reproved 
 hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be des- 
 troyed, and that without remedy. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Vessels of Wrath and of 
 Mercy delineated. 
 Rom. 9{ 22, 23. The vessels of wrath 
 
132 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 fitted to destruction; and the vessels 
 
 of mercy which he had aforetime prepared 
 unto glory. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Nature and Necessity of True 
 Repentance. 
 
 Acts 17: 30. And the times of this .igno- 
 rance God winked at ; but now command- 
 eth all men everywhere to repent. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Ways of Sin Hard and Dif- 
 ficult. 
 
 Acts 9: 16. It is hard for thee to kick 
 against the pricks. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Characters of the Whole 
 
 and Sick contrasted. 
 
 Mat. 9: 12. They that be whole need not a 
 physician, but they that are sick. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Gospel Invitation. 
 Luke 14: 21-24. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Marriage Supper. 
 
 The same text. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Rejection of Gospel Light, 
 
 the Condemnation of Men. 
 
 John 3: 19. And this is the condemnation, 
 that light is come into the world, and men 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 133 
 
 loved darkness rather than light, because 
 their deeds were evil. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. Evidences of Want of Love to 
 
 God. 
 
 John 5: 42. But I know you, that ye have 
 not the love of God in you. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Guilt and Doom of Impeni- 
 tent Hearers. 
 
 Mat. 13: 14. They seeing see not; and 
 hearing they hear not, neither do they un- 
 derstand. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Old Way which Wicked 
 
 Men have trodden. 
 
 Job 22: 15-17. Hast thou marked the old 
 way which wicked men have trodden 1 
 which were cut down out of time, whose 
 foundation was overflown with a flood : 
 which said unto God, Depart from us ; and 
 what can the Almighty do for them 1 
 
 Pres. Davies. Sins Estimated by the Light of 
 Heaven. 
 
 Ps. 90: 8. Thou hast set our iniquities 
 before thee : our secret sins in the light of 
 thy countenance. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Our Sins infinite in Number and 
 Enormity. 
 
 Job 22: 5. Is not thy wickedness great ? 
 and thine iniquities infinite \ 
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134 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. Pride the great Hinderance to 
 
 Conversion. 
 
 Ps. 10: 4. The wicked, through the pride 
 of his countenance, will not seek after God. 
 
 Pres, Davies. Recollection of God painful to 
 
 the Wicked. 
 
 Ps. 77: 3. I remembered God and was 
 troubled. 
 
 E. Payson. Sinners Wilful and Perverse. 
 
 Luke 7: 31-35. 
 
 E. Payson. Sinners Entreated to Hear God's 
 Voice. 
 
 Heb. 3: 7, 8. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost 
 saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice, 
 harden not your hearts. 
 
 E. Payson. The Difficulty of Escaping the Dam- 
 nation of Hell. 
 
 Mark 25: 33. How can ye escape the dam- 
 nation of hell 1 
 
 A. Fuller. The Punishment of the Wicked 
 
 Dreadful and Interminable. 
 
 Mark 14: 44. Where their worm dieth 
 not, and the fire is not quenched. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 135 
 
 A. Fuller. The Sinner directed to look into 
 Himself for Conviction. 
 
 Ps. 4: 4. Stand in awe, and sin not ; com- 
 mune with your own heart upon your bed, 
 and be still. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Soul directed to look out of 
 
 itself for Consolation. 
 
 Ps. 13:2. How long shall I take counsel 
 in my soul, having sorrow in my heart 
 daily 1 
 
 A. Fuller. The Reception of Christ the turning 
 point of Salvation. 
 
 John 1: 10-12. He was in the world, and 
 the world was made by him, and the world 
 knew him not. He came unto his own, and 
 his own received him not. But as many as 
 received bim, to them gave he power to 
 become the sons of God, even to them that 
 believe on his name. 
 
 C. Lee. The Guilt of Unbelief. 
 
 John 16: 9. Of sin, because they believe 
 not on me. 
 
 C. Lee. God Angry with the Wicked. 
 
 Ps. 7: 11. God is angry with the wicked 
 every day. 
 
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 C. Lee. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Sinners are Miserable. 
 
 Rome 3: 16, 17. Destruction and misery 
 are in their ways : and the way of peace have 
 they not known. 
 
 Covering Sin the Way to Ruin. 
 
 Prov. 28: 13. He that covereth his sins 
 shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and 
 forsaketh them shall have mercy. 
 
 Corruption of Mankind before the 
 
 Deluge. 
 
 Gen. 6: 11. The earth also was corrupt 
 before God, and the earth was rilled with 
 violence. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 Spiritual Death — its Application, 
 
 Nature and Consequences. 
 
 Eph. 2: 1. And you hath he quickened, who 
 were dead in trespasses and sins. 
 
 Spiritual Leprosy. 
 
 Lev. 13: 45. And the leper in whom the 
 plague w, his clothes shall be rent, and his 
 head bare, and he shall put a covering upon 
 his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, un- 
 clean. 
 
 R. Hall. On Counting the Cost. 
 
 Luke 14: 28. For which of you, intending 
 to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and 
 counteth the cost, whether he have suffi- 
 cient to finish itl 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
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 R. Hall. 
 
 Joy of Angels. 
 
 Luke 15: 7. I say unto you, that likewise 
 joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that 
 repenteth, more than over ninety and nine 
 just persons which need no repentance. 
 
 Simeon. Souls Quickened by the Gospel. 
 
 Ezek. 37: 11-13. Then he said unto me, 
 Son of man, these bones are the whole 
 house of Israel : behold, they say, Our 
 bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we 
 are cut off for our parts. Therefore proph- 
 esy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord 
 God ; Behold, O my people, I will open your 
 graves, and cause you to come up out of 
 your graves, and bring you into the land of 
 Israel. Andye shall know that I am theLoRD, 
 when I have opened your graves, O my 
 people, and brought you up out of your 
 graves. 
 
 Simeon. Exhortation to Careless Sinners. 
 
 Eph. 5: 14. Wherefore he saith, Awake 
 thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, 
 and Christ shall give thee light. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. Men's Disregard of the Gospel. 
 
 Hos. 8: 12. I have written to him the great 
 things of my law, but they were counted as 
 a strange thing. 
 
 God's Appeal to the Sinner's De- 
 cision. 
 
 Isa. 5: 3, 4. And now, O inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What 
 could have been done more to my vine- 
 yard, that I have not done in it 1 wherefore, 
 when I looked that it should bring forth 
 grapes, brought it forth wild grapes % 
 
 Simeon. Men's Neglect of the Gospel. 
 
 Isa. 51: 1. Hearken to me, ye that follow 
 after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord 
 look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and 
 to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 
 
 Simeon. God's Voice to Sinners. 
 
 Amos 3: 8. The lion hath roared, who will 
 not fear'? the Lord God hath spoken, who 
 can but prophesy 1 
 
 The Means of Ascertaining who are 
 
 in a State of Nature. 
 
 Acts 8: 23. For I perceive that thou art in 
 the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of 
 iniquity. 
 
 The Wickedness, Madness and 
 
 Misery of Unregenerate Men. 
 
 Eccl. 9: 3. Yea, also the heart of the sons 
 of men is full of evil, and madness is in 
 their heart while they live, and after that 
 they go to the dead. 
 
 Simeon. Men's Proud Contempt of God. 
 
 Ps. 10: 4, 5. The wicked, through the 
 pride of his countenance, will not seek 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 after God : God is not in all his thoughts. 
 His ways are always grievous ; thy judg- 
 ments are far above out of his sight : as for 
 all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 
 
 Mutual Abhorrence between God 
 
 and Sinners. 
 
 Zech. 11: 8. And my soul loathed them, 
 and their soul also abhorred me. 
 
 The Danger of Disregarding 
 Word of God. 
 
 the 
 
 Ex. 9: 20, 21. He that feared the word of 
 the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh 
 made his servants and his cattle flee into 
 the houses : and he that regarded not the 
 word of the Lord left his servauts and his 
 cattle in the field. 
 
 The Sinfulness of Confounding Good 
 
 and Evil. 
 
 Isa. 5: 20. Wo unto them that call evil 
 good, and good evil ; that put darkness for 
 light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter 
 for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! 
 
 The Consequences of Sin. 
 
 Hos. 8: 7. For they have sown the wind, 
 and they shall reap the whirlwind. 
 
 Simeon. No Peace to the Wicked. 
 
 Isa. 57: 20, 21. But the wicked are like 
 the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose 
 waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no 
 peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Sin will Certainly be Found Out. 
 
 Numb. 32: 23. But if ye will not do so, 
 behold, ye have sinned against the Lord ; 
 and be sure your sin will find you out. 
 
 The Danger of Forgetting God. 
 
 Ps. 9: 17. The wicked shall be turned into 
 hell, and all the nations that forget God. 
 
 The Character and End of the 
 
 Wicked. 
 
 Prov. 13: 5. A wicked man is loathsome, 
 and cometh to shame. 
 
 Simeon. Final State of the Righteous and 
 
 the Wicked. 
 
 Isa. 3: 10, 11. Say ye to the righteous, that 
 it shall be well with him : for they shall eat 
 the fruit of their doings. Wo unto the 
 wicked ! it shall be ill with him : for the 
 reward of his hands shall be given him. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Shamefulness of being Igno- 
 rant of God. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 34. For some have not the 
 knowledge of God: I speak this to your 
 shame. 
 
 The Danger of Spiritual Idolatry. 
 
 Hos. 4: 17. Ephraim is joined to idols : 
 let him alone. 
 
Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
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 Simeon. The End of Unbelievers. 
 
 1 Pet. 4: 17. What shall the end be of them 
 that obey not the gospel of God 1 
 
 The Sin of making Light of Christ. 
 
 Mat. 22: 5. Bnt they made light of zV, and 
 went their ways, one to his farm, another 
 to his merchandise. 
 
 Simeon. Bringing Forth unto Ourselves. 
 
 Hos. 10: 1. Israel is an empty vine, he 
 bringeth forth fruit unto himself. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Self-Flattering Delusions of 
 
 Sinners exposed. 
 
 Ps. 36: 2. For he flattereth himself in his 
 own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be 
 hateful. 
 
 The Guilt and Danger of not Loving 
 Christ. 
 
 1 Cor. 16: 22. If any man love not the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema 
 Maran-atha. 
 
 Simeon. Danger of Neglecting the Great Sac- 
 rifice. 
 
 1 Sam. 2: 25. If one man sin against ano- 
 ther, the judge shall judge him: but if a 
 man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat 
 for him 1 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 A Caution against Procrastination. 
 
 Prov. 27: 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow $ 
 for thou knowest not what a day may bring 
 forth. 
 
 The Extent and Causes of Men's 
 Supineness. 
 
 Hos. 5: 4>. They will not frame their doings 
 to turn unto their God. 
 
 The Danger of Wilful and Obsti- 
 
 Disobedience. 
 
 Ex. 23: 20-22. Behold, I send an Angel 
 before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to 
 bring thee into the place which I have pre- 
 pared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, 
 provoke him not ; for he will not pardon 
 your transgressions : for my name is in 
 him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his 
 voice, and do all that I speak ; then I will 
 be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an 
 adversary unto thine adversaries. 
 
 Friendship of the World is Enmity 
 
 with God. 
 
 James 4: 4. Know ye not that the friend- 
 ship of the world is enmity with God 1 who- 
 soever therefore will be a friend of the 
 world is the enemy of God. 
 
 Simeon. Mortification of Sin. 
 
 Rom. 8: 13. For if ye live after the flesh, 
 ye shall die : but if ye through the Spirit 
 do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall 
 live. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 143 
 
 Simeon. The Prayers of Unregenerate Men. 
 
 Hos. 7: 14. And they have not cried unto 
 me with their heart, when they howled 
 upon their beds : they assemble themselves 
 for corn and wine, and they rebel against 
 me. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 * 
 
 The Need of Attending to God's 
 
 Gracious Invitations. 
 
 Prov. 1: 20-31. Wisdom crieth without, 
 &c. 
 
 Simeon. God Expostulating with Sinners. 
 
 Ezek. 33: 11. Say unto them, As I live, 
 saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in 
 the death of the wicked : but that the wicked 
 turn from his way and live : turn ye, turn 
 ye from your evil ways ; for why will ye 
 die, O house of Israeli 
 
 The Work of Redemption a Motive 
 
 to Repentance. 
 
 Isa. 44 : 22. I have blotted out, as a thick 
 cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, 
 thy sins: return unto me; for I have re- 
 deemed thee. 
 
 Simeon. Exhortation to receive the Blessings 
 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 Isa. 55: 1-3. Ho, every one that thirst- 
 etb, come ye to the waters, and he that hath 
 no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; yea, 
 come, buy wine and milk without money 
 and without price. Wherefore do ye spend 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 money for that which is not bread 1 and 
 your labour for that which satisfieth not 1 
 hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that 
 which is good, and let your soul delight 
 itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and 
 come unto me : hear, and your soul shall 
 live ; and I will make an everlasting cove- 
 nant with you, even the sure mercies of 
 David. 
 
 Simeon. The Strong Hold. 
 
 Zech. 9: 12. Turn you to the strong hold, 
 ye prisoners of hope. 
 
 Simeon. The Spirit proffered. 
 
 John 7: 37, 38. In the last day, that great 
 day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, say- 
 ing, If any man thirst, let him come unto 
 me, and drink. He that believeth on me, 
 as the scripture hath said, out of his belly 
 shall flow rivers of living water. 
 
 To the Heavy Laden. 
 
 Mat. 11: 28. Come unto me, all ye that 
 labour and are heavy laden, and I will give 
 you rest. 
 
 Simeon. Looking to Christ. 
 
 lsa. 45: 22. Look unto me, and be ye saved, 
 all the ends of the earth : for I am God, and 
 there is none else. 
 
 Simeon. The Sinner Encouraged by the 
 Greatness of God's Mercy. 
 Isa. 43: 25, 26. I, even I, am he that blotteth 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 145 
 
 out thy transgressions for mine own sake, 
 and will not remember thy sins. Put me in 
 remembrance : let us plead together : de- 
 clare thou, that thou mayest be justified. 
 
 Simeon. Crimson Sins made White. 
 
 Isa. 1: 18. Come now, and let us reason 
 together, saith the Lord : though your sins 
 be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; 
 though they be red like crimson, they shall 
 be as wool. 
 
 Simeon. God's Mercy to the most Obstinate 
 
 Sinners. 
 
 Isa. 57: 17. I have seen his ways, and will 
 heal him. 
 
 Simeon. The End for which the Son of Man 
 
 came. 
 
 Luke 19: 10. For the Son of man is come 
 to seek and to save that which was lost. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Faithful Saying. 
 
 1 Tim. 1: 15. This is a faithful saying, and 
 worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus 
 came into the world to save sinners ; of 
 whom I am chief, 
 
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 m 
 
 the 
 
 D. A, Clark. Perdition a Dark 
 Moral Landscape. 
 
 Ezek. 18: 32. For I have no pleasure in 
 the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord 
 God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. 
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146 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Final Results of Iniquity. 
 
 James 1: 15. Then when lust hath con- 
 ceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when 
 it is finished, bringeth forth death. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Controversy Settled. 
 
 2 Cor. 5: 20. Now then we are ambassadors 
 for Christ, as though God did beseech you 
 by us : we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye 
 reconciled to God. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Bridgeless Gulf. 
 
 Luke 16: 26. And besides all this, between 
 us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so 
 that they which would pass from hence to 
 you cannot ; neither can they pass to us, 
 that would come from thence. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Terms of Divine Acceptance. 
 
 Acts 16: 30. And they said, Believe on the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, 
 and thy house. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Impenitent Men Destitute of Ho- 
 liness. 
 
 Rom. 3: 18. There is no fear of God be- 
 fore their eyes. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Desperate Effort. 
 
 Mat. 11: 12. And from the days of John 
 the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven 
 suffereth violence, and the violent take it by 
 force. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 147 
 
 D. A. Clark. Sinners in the Hands of an'angry 
 
 God. 
 
 Deut. 32: 35. To me belongeth vengeance, 
 and recompense 5 their foot shall slide in 
 due time, for the day of their calamity is at 
 hand, and the things that shall come upon 
 them make haste. 
 
 Dana. Sinners Opposed to Faithful Warn- 
 
 ing. 
 
 2 Chron. 18: 7. There is yet one man, by 
 whom we may inquire of the Lord : but I 
 hate him ; for he never prophesied good 
 unto me, but always evil. 
 
 Dana. State of those who Die in their Sins. 
 
 John 8: 24. I said therefore unto you, that 
 ye shall die in your sins : for if ye believe 
 not that I am Ae, ye shall die in your sins. 
 
 Whitefield. Pharisee and Publican. 
 
 Luke 18: 14. I tell you, this man went 
 down to his house justified rather than the 
 other: for every one that exalteth himself 
 shall be abased j and he that humbleth him- 
 i self shall be exalted. 
 
 Whitefield. Conversion of Zaccheus. 
 
 Luke 19: 9. This day is salvation come to 
 this house. 
 
 Whitefield. The Wise and Foolish Virgins. 
 
 Mat. 25: 13. Watch therefore, for ye know 
 neither the day nor the hour wherein the 
 Son of man cometh. 
 
148 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Whitefield. The Way of Salvation Easy. 
 
 1 John 1: 9. If we confess our sins, he is 
 faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and 
 to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
 
 McKenzie. Criminal Pleasure. 
 
 Rom. 8: 6. For to be carnally minded is 
 death. \ 
 
 McKenzie. The Horrible Guilt of those who 
 Strengthen the Hands of the 
 Wicked. 
 
 Jer. 23: 14. I have seen also in the pro- 
 phets of Jerusalem a horrible thing : they 
 commit adultery, and walk in lies: they 
 strengthen also the hands of evil doers, that 
 none doth return from his wickedness: 
 they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and 
 the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 
 
 McKenzie. The Wonderful Destruction of those 
 
 who Despise the Gospel. 
 
 Acts 13: 40, 41. Beware, therefore, lest 
 that come upon you which is spoken of in 
 the prophets} Behold, ye despisers, and 
 wonder, and perish : for I work a work in 
 your days, a work which ye shall in nowise 
 believe, though a man declare it unto you. 
 
 McKenzie. Obscurity and Uncertainty of the 
 Way of the Wicked. 
 
 Prov. 4: 19. The way of the wicked is as 
 darkness j they know not at what they 
 stumble. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 149 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 The Impotent Man at the Pool. 
 John 5 : 1-9. 
 
 The Jailer Instructed. 
 Acts 16: 29-31. 
 
 Lathrop. Enmity to the Gospel the True 
 
 Source of Unbelief. 
 
 John 15: 22-24. If I had not come and 
 spoken unto them, they had not had sin: 
 but now they have no cloak for their sin. 
 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 
 If I had not done among them the works 
 which none other man did, they had not 
 had sin : but now have they both seen and 
 hated both me and my Father. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Enmity to Religion in General the 
 Natural Consequence of Enmity 
 to the Gospel. 
 
 (Same text.) 
 
 
 Lathrop. God's Goodness the Hope of the 
 
 Penitent, but no Security to the 
 
 finally Impenitent. 
 
 Ps. 119: 68. Thou art good, and doest 
 good. 
 
 Lathrop. The Sins and Miseries of Men not 
 God's Doings, but their Own. 
 Micah 2: 7. Are these his doings 1 
 
150 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Lathrop. The Vision of Dry Bones. 
 Ezekiel37: 1-10. 
 
 Lathrop. Joab at the Horns of the Altar. 
 
 1 Kings 2 : 30. And he said, Nay, but I 
 
 will die here. 
 
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 Lathrop. The Strait Gate. Many Shut Out. 
 
 Luke 13: 24. Strive to enter in at the strait 
 gate ; for many, I say unto you, will seek 
 to enter in, and shall not be able. 
 
 Causes why many who seek to enter 
 it cannot. 
 
 Lathrop. Condition of those Excluded. 
 
 Lathrop. God's Challenge to Infidels. 
 
 Isa. 41: 21. Produce your cause, saith the 
 Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons^ 
 saith the King of Jacob. 
 
 Lathrop. The Spectators of the Crucifixion 
 
 Smiting on their Breasts. 
 
 Luke 23: 48. And all the people that came 
 together to that sight, beholding the things 
 which were done, smote their breasts, and 
 returned. 
 
 Lathrop. God Glorified in the Punishment of 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Sinners. 
 
 Rev. 19: 1-3. And after these things I 
 heard a great voice of much people in hea« 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 151 
 
 ven, saying, Alleluia ; Salvation, and glory, 
 and honour, and power, unto the Lord our 
 God : for true and righteous are his judg- 
 ments : for he hath judged the great whore, 
 which did corrupt the earth with her forni- 
 cation, and hath avenged the blood of his 
 servants at her hand. And again they said, 
 Alleluia. And her smoke rose up* forever 
 and ever. 
 
 Dehon. 
 
 Dehon. 
 
 Come to Jesus and be Healed. 
 
 Luke 18: 37. And they told him that Jesus 
 of Nazareth passeth by. 
 
 Excuses of the Irreligious. 
 
 Luke 14: 18. And they all with one con- 
 sent began to make excuse. 
 
 Clarkson. Christ Seeking Fruit in Vain. 
 
 Luke 13: 6. He came and sought fruit 
 thereon, and found none. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Incorrigible Hearers. 
 
 
 Jer. 25: 4. And the Lord hath sent unto 
 you all his servants the prophets, rising 
 early and sending them ; but ye have not 
 hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Sin of Moses and Aaron. 
 
 Deut. 32: 5 1. Because ye trespassed against 
 me among the children of Israel at the wa- 
 ters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness 
 of Zin ; because ye sanctified me not in the 
 midst of the children of Israel. 
 
152 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Lost Sinners Directed in the 
 Way. 
 
 Luke 1 : 79. To give light to them that 
 sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, 
 to guide our feet into the way of peace. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Cup of Wrath. 
 
 Ezek. 23: 32. Thus saith the Lord God; 
 Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep 
 and large : thou shalt be laughed to scorn 
 and had in derision; it containeth much. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Inveterate Depravity. 
 
 Isa. 26 : 10. Let favour be showed to the 
 wicked, yet will he not learn righteous- 
 ness : in the land of uprightness will he 
 deal unjustly, and will not behold the ma- 
 jesty of the Lord. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Sinner's Doom. 
 
 Jer. 18: 17. I will scatter them as with an 
 east wind before the enemy ; I will show 
 them the back, and not the face, in the day 
 of their calamity. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Prodigal Son. 
 Luke 15 : 11, &c. 
 
 Burder. Sinners Welcome to Christ. 
 
 John 6 : 37. Him that cometh to me I will 
 in nowise cast out. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 153 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 A Sinner Changed by Grace. 
 Eph. 2 : 5. By grace are ye saved. 
 
 Christ the Way to God and to 
 
 Heaven. 
 
 John 14: 6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the 
 way, and the truth, and the life : no man 
 cometh unto the Father, but by me. 
 
 Burder. Sin and Death : or Grace and Life. 
 
 "Rom. 8: 13. For if ye live after the flesh 
 ye shall die : but if ye through the Spirit 
 do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall 
 live. 
 
 Burder. The Penitent Thief. 
 
 Luke 23: 42, 43. And he said unto Jesus, 
 Lord, remember me when thou comest into 
 thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, 
 Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou 
 be with me in paradise. 
 
 Safety in the 
 Sinners. 
 
 Ark for Perishing 
 
 Gen. 7: 1. Come thou and all thy house 
 into the ark. 
 
 Burder. The Heart Taken. 
 
 Luke 11: 21, 22. When a strong man 
 armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in 
 peace : but when a stronger than he shall 
 come upon him, and overcome him, he 
 taketh from him all his armour wherein Jie 
 trusted, and divideth his spoils. 
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154 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Burder. Religion or Ruin, 
 
 Ezek. 1 8: 30. Therefore I will judge you, 
 O house of Israel, every one according to 
 his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, 
 aad turn yourselves from all your transgres- 
 sions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Danger of Opposing Religion. 
 
 Acts 5: 38, 39. And now I say unto you, 
 Refrain from these men, and let them alone : 
 for if this counsel or this work be of men, 
 it will come to nought. But if it be of 
 God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest haply ye 
 be found even to fight against God. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. A just Sense of the Character 
 
 and Presence of God, a Source 
 
 of Repentance. 
 
 Job 42: 5, 6. I have heard of thee by the 
 hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth 
 thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and re- 
 pent in dust and ashes. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Rich Man and Lazarus. 
 
 Luke 1G: 26. And besides all this, between 
 us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so 
 that they which would pass from hence to 
 you cannot; neither can they pass to us, 
 that would come from thence. 
 
 Shepard. The Unbelief of Gospel Sinners a 
 
 Matter of Astonishment. 
 
 Mark 6: 6. And he marvelled because of 
 their unbelief. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 155 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Natural Men in a Dreadful 
 
 Condition. 
 
 Acts 16: 29, 30. Then he called for alight, 
 and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell 
 down before Paul and Silas ; and brought 
 them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to 
 be saved ! 
 
 Pres. Edwards. God makes Men Sensible of 
 
 their Misery before he reveals his 
 
 Mercy and Love. 
 
 Hos. 5: 15. I will go and return to my 
 place, till they acknowledge their offence, 
 and seek my face : in their affliction they 
 will seek me early. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Hope and Comfort usually fol- 
 low genuine Humiliation and Re- 
 pentance. . , 
 
 Hos. 2. 15. And I will give her her vine- 
 yards from thence, and the valley of Achor 
 for a door of hope : and she shall sing there 
 as in the days of her youth, and as in the 
 day when she came up out of the land of 
 Egypt. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. God's Sovereignty in the Sal- 
 vation of Men. 
 
 Rom. 9: 18. Therefore hath he mercy on 
 whom he will have mercy, and whom he will 
 he hardeneth. 
 
 
156 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Portion of the Wicked. 
 
 Rom. 2: 8, 9. But unto them that are con- 
 tentious, and do not obey the truth, but 
 obey unrighteousness, indignation and 
 wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every 
 soul of man that doeth evil ; of the Jew 
 first, and also of the Gentile. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Wicked Men Inconsistent with 
 themselves. 
 Mat. 11: 16-19. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Manner of Seeking Sal- 
 vation. 
 
 Gen. 6 : 22. Thus did Noah j according to 
 all that God commanded him, so did he. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Unreasonableness of In- 
 
 determination in Religion. 
 
 1 Kings 18 : 21. How long halt ye between 
 two opinions % 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Unbelievers Contemn the Glo- 
 ry of Christ. 
 
 Acts 4: 11. This is the stone which was 
 set at nought of you builders, which is be- 
 come the head of the corner. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Folly of Looking Back 
 in Fleeing out of Sodom. 
 Luke 17: 32. Kemember Lot's wife. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 157 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Scripture Warnings best 
 adapted to the Conversion of 
 Sinners. 
 
 Luke 16: 31. And he said unto him, If 
 they hear not Moses and the prophets, 
 neither will they be persuaded though one 
 rose from the dead. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Hypocrites deficient in the Duty 
 of Prayer. 
 
 Job 27: 10. Will he always call upon God 1 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Future Punishment Gertain to 
 
 the Wicked. 
 
 Ezek. 22: 14>. Can thine heart endure, or 
 can thine hands be strong, in the days that 
 I shall deal with thee 1 I the Lord have 
 spoken it, and will do it. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Eternity of Hell Tor- 
 ments. 
 
 Mat. 25: 46. And these shall go away into 
 everlasting punishment. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Pardon for the Greatest Sin- 
 ners. 
 
 Ps. 25: 11. For thy name's sake, O Lord, 
 pardon mine iniquity : for it is great. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Self-Flatteries. 
 
 Ps. 36: 2. For he flattereth himself in his 
 own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be 
 hateful. 
 
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158 MAN AS A SINNER. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Sinners Useful in their own 
 
 Destruction only. 
 
 Ezek. 15: 2-4. Son of man, What is the vine 
 tree more than any tree, or than a branch 
 which is among the trees of the forest 1 
 Shall wooU be taken thereof to do any 
 work 1 or will men take a pin of it to hang 
 any vessel thereon 1 Behold, it is cast into 
 the fire for fuel ; the fire devoureth both the 
 ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is 
 it meet for any work 1 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Sinners in Zion. 
 
 Isa. 33: 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid ; 
 fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. 
 Who among us shall dwell with the devour- 
 ing fire! who among us shall dwell with 
 everlasting burnings'? 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Wrath upon the Wicked to 
 
 the Uttermost. 
 
 1 Thess. 2: 16. For the wrath is come upon 
 them to the uttermost. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Man's Natural Blindness in 
 Religion. 
 Ps. 94: 8-11. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Men Naturally God's Enemies. 
 
 Rom. 5: 10. For if when we were enemies, 
 we were reconciled to God by the death of 
 his Son ; much more, being reconciled, we 
 shall be saved by his life. 
 
MAN AS A SINNER. 159 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Sinners in the Hands of an 
 
 Angry God. 
 
 Deut. 32: 35. To me belongeth vengeance, 
 and recompense ; their foot shall slide in 
 due time : for the day of their calamity is 
 at hand, and the things that shall come 
 upon them make haste. 
 
 Massilon. The Disgusts accompanying Virtue. 
 
 John 10: 31. Then the Jews took up stones 
 again to stone him. 
 
SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO MAN AS A 
 CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Barrow. It is the Duty of Christians to be 
 Happy. 
 
 1 Thess. 5: 16. Rejoice evermore. 
 
 HOOKE. 
 
 Howe. 
 
 Howe. 
 
 Barrow. On Keeping the Heart. 
 
 Prov. 4: 23. Keep thy heart with all dili- 
 gence. 
 
 Barrow. Justifying Faith. 
 
 Rom. 5: 1. Therefore being justified by- 
 faith, we have peace with God through our 
 Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 The Privileges of the Saints on 
 Earth beyond those in Heaven. 
 
 Phil. 1: 23. I am in a strait betwixt two. 
 
 The Vanity of a Formal Profession. 
 
 Tit. 1: 16. They profess that they know 
 God; but in works they deny him, being 
 abominable, and disobedient, and unto every 
 good work reprobate. 
 
 Wherein Afflictions are to be ac- 
 counted Joyful. 
 
 James 1: 2. My brethren, count it all joy 
 when ye fall into divers temptations. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Howe. 
 Howe. 
 
 Howe. 
 
 Howe. 
 
 Howe. 
 
 Howe. 
 
 Blunt. 
 
 Encouragement to Prayer. 
 
 Luke 18: 1-8. Parable of the unjust judge. 
 
 Christians Exhorted not to Sleep. 
 
 1 Thess. 5: 6. Therefore let us not sleep 
 as do others. 
 
 The SnTand Danger of Forsaking 
 
 the Lord. 
 
 Josh. 24: 20. If ye forsake the Lord, and 
 serve strange gods, then he will turn and 
 do you hurt, and consume you, after that he 
 hath done you good. 
 
 Friendship with God. 
 
 James 2: 23. He was called the friend of 
 God. 
 
 Enmity and Reconciliation. 
 
 Col. 1: 21. And you, that were sometime 
 alienated and enemies in your mind by 
 wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. 
 
 The Sins of Believers are Presump- 
 tuous Sins. 
 
 Ps. 19: 13. Keep back thy servant also 
 from presumptuous sins. 
 
 The Christian not yet arrived at his 
 
 Journey's End. 
 Deut. 12: 9. For ye are not as yet come to 
 
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 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 the rest and to the inheritance, which the 
 Lord your God giveth you. 
 
 Blunt. The Saints' Confession. 
 
 Heb. 11: 13. And confessed that they were 
 strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 
 
 Blunt. The Saints on Earth. 
 
 1 Cor. 3: 21-23. Therefore let no man 
 glory in men. For all things are yours ; 
 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the 
 world, or life, or death, or things present, 
 or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye 
 are Christ's ; and Christ is God's. 
 
 Blunt. The Saints in Heaven. 
 
 Rev. 7: 14. These are they which came 
 out of great tribulation, and have washed 
 their robes, and made them white in the 
 blood of the Lamb. 
 
 Blunt. 
 
 Aids to Self-Knowledge. 
 
 1 John 3: 10. In this the children of God 
 are made manifest, and the children of the 
 devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness 
 is not of God, neither he that loveth not his 
 brother. 
 
 Blunt. Signs that we are in Christ. 
 
 1 John 2: 5. But whoso keepeth his word, 
 in him verily is the love of God perfected : 
 hereby know we that we are in him. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 163 
 
 Jay. The Christian Indeed. 
 
 Gal. 2: 20. I am crucified with Christ : 
 nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ 
 liveth in me : and the life which I now live 
 in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of 
 God, who loved me, and gave himself for 
 me. 
 
 Jay. Nearness to the Cross. 
 
 John 19: 25. Now there stood by the cross 
 of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, 
 Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Mag- 
 dalene. 
 
 Jay. Boldness at the Throne of Grace. 
 
 Heb. 4: 16. Let us therefore come boldly 
 unto the throne of grace, that we may ob- 
 tain mercy, and find grace to help in time 
 of need. 
 
 Jay. The Union of Prayer and Watch- 
 
 fulness. 
 
 Neh. 4: 9. Nevertheless we made our 
 prayer unto our God, and set a watch 
 against them day and night, because of them. 
 
 Jay. Backsliding Reproved. 
 
 Jer. 2: 2. Go and cry in the ears of Jeru- 
 salem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; I re- 
 member thee, the kindness of thy youth, 
 the love of thine espousals, when thou went- 
 est after me in the wilderness, in a land that 
 was not sown. 
 
164 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Jay. Spiritual Purification Indispensable 
 
 to an Interest in Christ. 
 
 John 13: 8. Peter said unto him, Thou shalt 
 never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, 
 If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with 
 me. 
 
 Jay. A Check to Presumptuous Hopes. 
 
 Heb. 4: 1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a pro- 
 mise being left us of entering into his rest, 
 any of you should seem to come short of it. 
 
 Jay. Christians not of the World. 
 
 John 17: 14. They are not of the world. 
 
 Jay. The Beginnings of Grace Encour- 
 
 aged. 
 
 Zech. 4: 10. For who hath despised the 
 day of small things 1 
 
 Jay. The Christian Pilgrim. 
 
 Heb. 11; 13. And confessed that they 
 were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 
 
 Jay. The Cheerful Pilgrim. 
 
 Ps. 119: 54. Thy statutes have been my 
 songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 
 
 Jay. Saul of Tarsus Praying. 
 
 Acts 9: 11. Behold he prayeth. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 165 
 
 Jay. The Disciples in a Storm. 
 
 Mat. 8: 21-26. 
 
 Jay. The Lovely Simplicity of the Young 
 
 Convert. 
 
 Mat. 18: 3. And said, Verily I say unto 
 you, Except ye be converted, and become 
 as little children, ye shall not enter into the 
 kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Jay. The Saving Knowledge of God. 
 
 2 Cor. 4: 6. For God, who commanded 
 the light to shine out of darkness, hath 
 shined in our hearts, to givethe light of the 
 knowledge of the glory of God in the face 
 of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Jay. The Last Hours of Stephen. 
 
 Acts 7: 59, 60. And they stoned Stephen, 
 calling upon Got/, and saying, Lord Jesus, 
 receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, 
 and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not 
 this sin to their charge. And when he had 
 said, this, he fell asleep. 
 
 Jay. A Christian not a Favourite with 
 
 the World. 
 
 2 Tim. 3: 12. Yea, and all that will live 
 godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- 
 tion. 
 
 Jay. The A^ed Saint Comforted. 
 
 fc 8 
 
 Isa. 46: 4. And even to your old age I am 
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166 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 he ; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you : 
 I have made, and I will bear ; even I will 
 carry, and will deliver you. 
 
 Jay. Constancy in Religion. 
 
 Dan. 6: 10. Now when Daniel knew that 
 the writing was signed, he went into his 
 house ; and his windows being open in his 
 chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled 
 upon his knees three times a day, and 
 prayed and gave thanks before his God, as 
 he did aforetime. 
 
 Jay. The New Creature. 
 
 Gal. 6: 15. For in Christ Jesus neither 
 circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncir- 
 cumcision, but a new creature. 
 
 Jay. The Duty and Privilege of Retire- 
 
 ment. 
 
 Ezek. 3: 22. And the hand of the Lord 
 was there upon me ; and he said unto me, 
 Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will 
 there talk with thee. 
 
 Jay. David's Fear and Folly. 
 
 1 Sam. 27: 1. And David said in his heart, 
 I shall now perish one day by the hand of 
 Saul: there is nothing better for me than 
 that I should speedily escape into the land 
 of the Philistines j and Saul shall despair 
 of me, to seek me any more in the coast of 
 Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. 
 
MAN AS .A CHRISTIAN. 167 
 
 Jay. The Grand Inquiry. 
 
 John 21: 17. Dovest thou me 1 
 
 
 Jay. Mistakes Concerning the Number 
 
 of the Righteous. 
 
 Rom. 11: 4. I have reserved to myself 
 seven thousand men, who have not bowed 
 the knee to the image o/'Baal. 
 
 Jay. The Nature of Genuine Religion. 
 
 Ezek. 11: 19, 20. And I will give them one 
 heart, and I will put a new spirit within 
 you ; and I will take the stony heart out 
 of their flesh, and will give them a heart 
 of flesh: that they may walk in my stat- 
 utes, and keep mine ordinances, and do 
 them : and they shall be my people, and I 
 will be their God. 
 
 Jay. Vows Called to Remembrance. 
 
 Gen. 35: 3. And let us arise, and go up to 
 Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar unto 
 God, who answered me in the day of my 
 distress, and was with me in the way which 
 I went. 
 
 Jay. The Triumph of Patience. 
 
 Rev. 14: 12. Here is the patience of the 
 
 saints. 
 
 Jay. On Progress in Religion. 
 
 Josh. 13: 1. There remaineth yet very 
 much land to be possessed. 
 
168 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Jay. The Privileges of the Righteous. 
 
 Ps. 84: 11. For the Lord God is a sun and 
 shield : the Lord will give grace and glory : 
 no good thing will he withhold from them 
 that walk uprightly. 
 
 Jay. The Condition of Christians in the 
 
 World. 
 
 John 17: 15. I pray not that thou shouldest 
 take them out of the world, but that thou 
 shouldest keep them from the evil. 
 
 Jay. Christian Diligence. 
 
 2 Pet. 1: 5-7. And besides this, giving all 
 diligence, add to your faith virtue ; and to 
 virtue knowledge ; and to knowledge tem- 
 perance j and to temperance patience ; and 
 to patience godliness ; and to godliness 
 brotherly kindness ) and to brotherly kind- 
 ness charity. 
 
 Jay. Service done for God rewarded. 
 
 Ezek. 29: 20. I have given him the land of 
 Egypt for his labour wherewith he served 
 against it, because they wrought for me, 
 saith the Lord God. 
 
 Jay. The Saviour Honoured in his Peo- 
 
 ple. 
 
 John 12: 10. I am glorified in them. 
 
 Jay. Consolation in Death. 
 
 Ps. 23: 4. Yea, though I walk through the 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 169 
 
 valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no 
 evih for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy 
 staff they comfort me. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Believer's Hope 
 of a Likeness to Christ. 
 
 1 John 3r 2. Beloved r now are we the sons 
 of God, and it doth not yet appear what we 
 shall be :. but we know that, when he shall 
 appear, we shall be like him ; for we shall 
 see him as he is. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Practical Influence of 
 
 the Believer's Hope. 
 
 1 John 3: 3. And every man that hath this- 
 hope in him purine th himself, even as he is 
 pure. 
 Howe. Rom. 5: 5. Hope maketh not ashamed. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Things Unseen Btf- 
 
 held by Faith. 
 
 Heb. 11: 1. Now faith is the substance of 
 things hoped for, the evidence of things not 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Blessedness of 
 Assurance, and Means of its At- 
 tainment. 
 
 2 Pet. 1: 10, 11. Wherefore, the rather, 
 brethren, give diligence to make your call- 
 ing and election sure : for if ye do these 
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170 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 things, ye shall never fall : for so an en- 
 trance shall be ministered unto you abun- 
 dantly into the everlasting kingdom of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Apostolic Fellowship. 
 
 Acts 2: 42. And they continued steadfastly 
 in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and 
 in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Steadfastness in Obe- 
 dience. 
 
 Numb. 14 : 24. But my servant Caleb, be- 
 cause he had another spirit with him, and 
 hath followed me fully, him will I bring 
 into the land whereinto he went ; and his 
 seed shall possess it. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Christian Meekness 
 and Forgiveness. 
 
 Mat. 5: 39. Whosoever shall smite thee on 
 thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Tendency of all 
 Events to the true Christian. 
 
 Phil. 1: 19. For I know that this shall turn 
 to my salvation through your prayer, and 
 the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Symptoms, Cause 
 
 and Cure of Religious Dejection. 
 
 Ps. 77: 10. And I said, This is my infir- 
 
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 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 mity ; but I will remember the years of the 
 right hand of the Most High. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Religious Conversa- 
 tion. 
 
 Mat. 12: 34. For out of the abundance of 
 the heart the mouth speaketh. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Enemies and 
 Arms of Christians. 
 
 Eph. 6: 11-13. 
 
 Saurin. The Life of Faith. 
 
 Hab. 2: 4. The just shall live by faith. 
 
 Saurin. True and False Repentance. 
 
 2 Cor. 7: 10. For godly sorrow worketh 
 repentance to salvation not to be repented 
 of: but the sorrow of the world worketh 
 death. 
 
 Saurin. The Saints in Heaven. 
 
 1 John 3: 2. Beloved, now are we the sons 
 of God, and it doth not yet appear what we 
 shall be : but Ave know that, when he shall 
 appear, we shall be like him j for we shall 
 see him as he is. 
 
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 Saurin. 
 
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 Saurin. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
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 Saurin. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Christian Heroism. 
 
 Prov. 16: 32. He that is slow to anger, is 
 better than the mighty ; and he that ruleth 
 his spirit than he that taketh a city. 
 
 Christian Casuistry ; where Actions 
 good in themselves may become 
 Criminal. 
 
 Prov. 4: 26. Ponder the path of thy feet. 
 
 The World a Bad Model for the 
 
 Christian. 
 
 Rom. 12: 2. And be not conformed to this 
 world : but be ye transformed by the re- 
 newing of your mind, that ye may prove 
 what is that good, and acceptable, and per- 
 fect will of God. 
 
 Transient Devotions. 
 
 Hos. 6: 4. For your goodness is as a morn- 
 ing cloud, and as the early dew it goeth 
 away. 
 
 The Grief of the Righteous for the 
 Misconduct of the Wicked. 
 
 Ps. 119: 136. Rivers of waters run down 
 mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. 
 
 The Blessedness of Believing with- 
 out having Seen. 
 John 20: 29. Jesus said unto him, Thomas, 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 173 
 
 because thou hast seen me, thou hast be- 
 lieved : blessed are they that have not seen, 
 and yet have believed. 
 
 Saurin. The Christian a Partaker in the 
 
 Exaltation of Christ. 
 
 Eph. 2: 4-6. But God, who is rich in 
 mercy, for his great love wherewith he 
 loved us, even when we were dead in sins, 
 hath quickened us together with Christ, 
 (by grace ye are saved ;) and hath raised 
 us up together, and made us sit together in 
 heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 
 
 Saurin. The Rapture of Paul. 
 2 Cor. 12: 2-4. 
 
 Saurin. The True Glory of the Christian. 
 
 Gal. 6: 14. But God forbid that I should 
 glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto 
 
 me, and I unto the world. 
 
 Saurin. On Perseverance. 
 
 Heb. 12: 1. And let us run with patience 
 the race that is set before us. 
 
 Saurin. The Example of the Saints. 
 
 Heb. 12: 1. Wherefore seeing we also are 
 compassed about with so great a cloud of 
 
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 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, 
 and the sin which doth so easily beset us. 
 
 Saurin. Paul Before Felix. 
 Acts 24: 24, 25. 
 
 Saurin. God's Covenant with Israel. 
 Deut. 29: 10-19. 
 
 Saurin. Peter's Fall. 
 
 Mat. 26: 74. Then began he to curse and 
 to swear, saying, I know not the man. 
 
 E. T. Fitch. Peter's Repentance and Recovery. 
 
 Mat. 26: 75. And he went out, and wept 
 bitterly. 
 
 Saurin. A Taste for Devotion. 
 
 Ps. 63: 5, 6. My soul shall be satisfied as 
 with marrow and fatness ; and my mouth 
 shall praise thee with joyful lips: when I 
 remember thee upon my bed, and meditate 
 on thee in the night watches. 
 
 J. Edwards. The Great Change. 
 
 2 Cor. 5: 17. If any man be in Christ, he 
 is a new creature. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. . 175 
 
 Payson. Concern for the Spiritual Wants of 
 Men. 
 
 Phil. 2: 20. For I have no man likeminded, 
 who will naturally care for your state. 
 
 J. Woodbridge. God's Respect to the Lowly. 
 
 Ps. 138: 6. Though the Lord be high, yet 
 hath he respect unto the lowly j but the 
 proud he knoweth afar oiF. 
 
 B. Dickinson. Christian Decision. 
 
 Dan. 3: 18. But if not, be it known unto 
 thee, O king, that we will not serve thy 
 gods, nor worship the golden image which 
 thou hast set up. 
 
 L. Bacon. Duties of Young Christians. 
 
 1 John 2: 14. I have written unto you, 
 young men, because ye are strong, and the 
 word of God abideth in you, and ye have 
 overcome the wicked one. 
 
 A. Alexander. The Nature and Means of 
 Growth in Grace. 
 2 Pet. 3: 18. Grow in grace. 
 
 Griffin. The Prayer of Faith. 
 Luke 11: 5-13. 
 
 Griffin. The Heavenly Mind. 
 
 Rom. 8: 6. To be spiritually minded is life 
 and peace. 
 
176 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 M.Tucker. Man Humbled and God Honoured. 
 
 1 Cor. 4: 7. Who maketh thee to differ 
 from another 1 
 
 F. Wayland. Encouragement to Religious Ef- 
 fort. 
 Mat. 4: 10. Thy kingdom come. 
 
 J. Leavitt. The Living Epistle. 
 
 2 Cor. 3: 2. Ye are our epistle written in 
 our hearts, known and read of all men. 
 
 S. K. Kollock. Scriptural Evidence of Saving 
 
 Faith. 
 
 James 2: 18. I will show thee my faith by 
 my works. 
 
 N.Porter. Progress of the Righteous and 
 
 Wicked compared. 
 
 Prov. 4: 18, 19. But the path of the just is 
 as the shining light, which shineth more and 
 more unto the perfect day. The way of 
 the wicked is as darkness : they know not 
 at what they stumble. 
 
 C. Jenkins. The Spiritual and Elevated Nature 
 of True Piety. 
 
 Prov. 15: 24. The way of life is above to 
 the wise, that he may depart from hell be- 
 neath. 
 
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 B. Green. Christian Obligations. 
 
 Rom, 14: 7, 8. For none of us liveth to 
 himself, and no man dieth to himself. For 
 whether we live, we live unto the Lord : 
 and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : 
 whether we live therefore, or die, we are 
 the Lord's. 
 
 A. Barnes. Development of Christian Charac- 
 ter. 
 Mat, 5: 14-16. 
 
 A. Hyde. The Fruit of the Spirit. 
 
 Gal. 5: 22, 23. But the fruit of the Spirit 
 is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentle- 
 ness, goodness, faith, meekness, tempe- 
 rance : against such there is no law. 
 
 M. Tucker. Means of a Revival. 
 
 Amos 7: 2. By whom shall Jacob arise % 
 for he is small. 
 
 M.Tucker. The Ungrateful and Backsliding 
 
 rebuked. 
 
 Luke 17: 17. Were there not ten cleansed 1 
 but where are the nine % 
 
 C. C. Cuyler. Causes of the Decline of Re- 
 vivals. 
 
 Hos. 6: 4. Ephraim, what shall I do unto 
 thee 1 O Judah, what shall I do unto thee 1 
 for thy goodness is as a morning cloud, and 
 as the early dew it goeth away. 
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178 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 A. Nash. Union among Christians. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 10. Now 1 beseech you, breth- 
 ren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 that ye all speak the same thing, and that 
 there be no divisions among you ; but that 
 ye be perfectly joined together in the same 
 mind and in the same judgment. 
 
 T. E. Vermilye. The Beatific Vision. 
 
 Ps. 17: 15. As for me I will behold thy 
 face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, 
 when I awake with thy likeness. 
 
 G. L. Beckwith. Zeal in Religion. 
 
 Gal. 4: 18. But it is good to be zealously 
 affected always in a good thing. 
 
 D. L. Carroll. Disastrous Effects of Little 
 
 Sins in Christians. 
 
 Eccl. 10: 1. Dead flies cause the ointment 
 of the apothecary to send forth a stinking 
 savour : so doth a little folly him that is in 
 reputation for wisdom and honour. 
 
 S. M. Worcester. Dying the Death of the 
 
 Righteous. 
 
 Num. 23: 10. Let me die the death of the 
 righteous, and let my last end be like his ! 
 
 E. Beecher. The Nature, Importance, and 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 179 
 
 Means of Eminent Holiness 
 throughout the Church. 
 
 Mat. 6: 3. Rom. 14: 17. Luke 17: 20, 21. 
 Isa. 53: 1, 2. 
 
 B. Dickinson. Sure Means of Spiritual Pros- 
 perity. 
 
 Acts 20: 32. And now, brethren, 1 com- 
 mend you to God, and to the word of his 
 grace, which is able to build you up, and to 
 give you an inheritance among all them 
 which are sanctified. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Nature, Results, and Means 
 of Sanctification. 
 
 John 17: 17. Sanctify them through thy 
 truth : thy word is truth. 
 
 E. Holt. Union of Christians Essential to the 
 World's Conversion. 
 
 John 17: 21. That they all may be one; as 
 thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that 
 they also may be one in us j that the world 
 may believe that thou hast sent me. 
 
 J. B. Condit. Grace Irreconcilable with Sin. 
 
 Rom. 6: 1, 2. What shall we say then 1 
 shall we continue in sin, that grace may 
 abound 1 God forbid. How shall we, that 
 are dead to sin, live any longer therein 1 
 
180 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN, 
 
 R. Page. The Character and Blessedness of 
 
 the Humble Penitent. 
 
 Isa. 66: 2. But to this man will I look, 
 even to him that is poor and of a contrite 
 spirit, and trembleth at my word. 
 
 The Duty and Wisdom of Christian 
 
 Watchfulness. 
 
 Mark 13: 37. What I say unto you, I say 
 unto all, Watch. 
 
 The Glorious Change. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 53. For this corruptible must 
 put on incorruption, and this mortal must 
 put on immortality. 
 
 Chandler. Benevolence and Integrity Essen- 
 tials of Christianity. 
 
 James 1: 27. Pure religion, and undefiled 
 before God and the Father is this, To visit 
 the fatherless and widows in their afflic- 
 tion, and to keep himself unspotted from 
 the world. 
 
 S. B. Williams. Experimental Religion. 
 
 Ps. 66 : 16. Come and hear, all ye that 
 fear God, and I will declare what he hath 
 done for my soul. 
 
 S. P. Williams. Christian Diligence. 
 Heb. 6: 11, 12. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 181 
 
 S. P. Williams. The Christian Pilgrim. 
 
 Ps. 39: 12. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and 
 give ear unto my cry ; hold not thy peace 
 at my tears ; for I am a stranger with thee, 
 and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 
 
 S. P. Williams, The Happiness of Self-Denial. 
 Luke 18: 28-30. 
 
 N. Emmons. The Peculiar Spirit of Christians. 
 
 1 Cor. 2: 12. Now we have received, not 
 the spirit of the world, but the spirit which 
 is of God ; that we might know the things 
 that are freely given to us of God. 
 
 N. Emmons. Holy Obedience the only Title to 
 
 Eternal Life. 
 
 Luke 10: 27, 28. And he answering said, 
 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
 thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all 
 thy strength, and with all thy mind j and 
 thy neighbour as thyself. And he said 
 unto him, Thou hast answered right : this 
 do, and thou shalt live. 
 
 N. Emmons. Perfect Holiness in this Eife the 
 
 Duty of all Christians. 
 
 2 Cor. 13: 9. And this also we wish, even 
 your perfection. 
 
 N. Emmons. The Moral Imperfection of Chris- 
 tians their greatest Burden. 
 Rom. 7: 24. O wretched man that I am ! 
 16* 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 who shall deliver me from the body of this 
 death % 
 
 N. Emmons. Love the Essence of Obedience 
 
 Ron 
 law 
 
 Rom. 13: 10. Love is the fulfilling of the 
 
 N. Emmons. The Nature, Extent and Influence 
 of the Moral Depravity of Sin- 
 ners. 
 Rom. 7: 7, 8. 
 
 N. Emmons. The true Character of Good Men 
 
 delineated. 
 
 Rom. 7: 18. For I know that in me (that is, 
 in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to 
 will is present with me ; but how to perform 
 that which is good I find not. 
 
 N. Emmons. Justification. 
 
 A. Fuller. Rom. 5: 1. Therefore being justified by 
 faith, we have peace with God through 
 our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 N. Emmons. Unity of Sentiment tends to pro- 
 mote Affection among Christians. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 10. Now I beseech you, breth- 
 ren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 that ye all speak the same thing, and that 
 there be no divisions among you ; but that 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 183 
 
 ye be perfectly joined together in the same 
 mind and in the same judgment. 
 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Nature and Universality of 
 Spiritual Death. 
 
 Eph. 2: 1, 5. Who were dead in trespasses 
 and sins. Even when we were dead in 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Nature and Progress of 
 
 Spiritual Life. 
 
 Eph. 2: 4, 5. But God, who is rich in mer- 
 cy, for his great love wherewith he loved 
 us, even when we were dead in sins, hath 
 quickened us together with Christ. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Poor and Contrite Spirits the 
 
 Objects of Divine Favour. 
 
 Isa. 66: 2. But to this man will I look, even 
 to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, 
 and trembleth at my word. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Sacred Import of the Chris- 
 R. Hall. tian Name. 
 
 Acts 11: 26. And the disciples were called 
 Christians first in Antioch. 
 
 Pres. Davies. Danger of Lukewarmness in 
 Religion. 
 
 Rev. 3: 15, 16. I know thy works, that 
 thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou 
 wert cold or hot. So then because thou 
 
184 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I 
 will spew thee out of my mouth. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. Dedication to God argued from 
 Redeeming Mercy. 
 1 Cor. 6: 19-20. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Christian Feast. 
 
 1 Cor. 5: 8. Therefore let us keep the 
 feast, not with old leaven, neither with the 
 leaven of malice and wickedness; but with 
 the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 
 
 Pres. Davies. An Enrolment of our Names in 
 
 Heaven the noblest Source of Joy. 
 
 Luke 10: 20. Rejoice, because your names 
 are written in heaven. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Nature and Blessedness of 
 Sonship with God. 
 
 1 John 3: 1. Behold, what manner of love 
 the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we 
 should be called the sons of God : therefore 
 the world knoweth us not, because it knew 
 him not. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Nature of Love to Christ 
 Opened and Enforced. 
 John 21: 17. 
 
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 Pres. Davies. The Divine Life in the Soul. 
 
 Gal. 2: 20. I am crucified with Christ : 
 nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but Christ 
 liveth in me : and the life which I now live 
 in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of 
 God, who loved me, and gave himself for 
 me. 
 
 Pres. Davies. A Sight of Christ the Desire 
 
 and Delight of Saints in all Ages. 
 
 John 8: 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced 
 to see my day : and he saw it, and was glad. 
 
 E. Payson. The Objects, Grounds, and Evi- 
 dences of the Hope of the Right- 
 eous. 
 
 Prov. 14: 32. But the righteous hath hope 
 in his death. 
 
 E. Payson. Christians solemnly reminded of 
 
 their Obligations. 
 
 Josh. 24: 22. And Joshua said unto the 
 people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves 
 that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve 
 him. And they said, We are witnesses. 
 
 E. Payson. The Dead in Sin made Alive. 
 
 Eph. 2: 1-7. 
 
 E. Payson. The Work of Deliverance. 
 
 Ezek. 9: 4-6. And the Lord said unto him, 
 
186 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Go through the midst of the city, through 
 the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark 
 upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and 
 that cry for all the abominations that be 
 done in the midst thereof. 
 
 E. Payson. The Christian Manner of Express- 
 ing Gratitude. 
 
 2 Tim. 1: 16-18. 
 
 E. Payson. The Timely Presence and Saluta- 
 tion of Jesus. 
 
 Luke 24: 36. And as they thus spake, 
 Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, 
 and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 
 
 E. Payson. God's Approbation of our Labours 
 Necessary to Success. 
 
 Num. 14: 8. If the Lord delight in us, 
 then he will bring us into this land, and 
 give it us ; a land which floweth with milk 
 and honey. 
 
 E. Payson. The Prayer of Faith Exemplified 
 in the Woman of Canaan. 
 Mat. 15: 21-28. 
 
 Fuller. The Future Perfection of the Church 
 

 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 187 
 
 contrasted with its Present Im- 
 perfections. 
 
 Eph. 5: 26, 27. That he might sanctify and 
 cleanse it with the washing of water by the 
 word, that he might present it to himself 
 a glorious church, not having spot, or wrin- 
 kle, or any such thing ; but that it should 
 be holy and without blemish. 
 
 Fuller. The Believer's Review of his Past 
 and Present State. 
 
 Eph. 2: 13. But now in Christ Jesus ye 
 who sometimes were far off are made nigh 
 by the blood of Christ. 
 
 Fuller. The Principles and Prospects of a 
 Servant of Christ. 
 
 Jude 20: 21. But ye, beloved, building up 
 yourselves on your most holy faith, praying 
 in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in 
 the love of God, looking for the mercy of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 
 
 Chalmers. The Principles of Love. 
 
 
 Jude 21. Keep yourselves in the love of 
 God. 
 
 
 Chalmers. The Purifying Influence of Chris- 
 tian Faith. 
 Acts 26: 18. Sanctified by faith. 
 
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 Chalmers. Gratitude not a Sordid Affection. 
 
 1 John 4: 19. We love him because he 
 first loved us. 
 
 Chalmers. Conversion Illustrated by that of 
 
 Saul. 
 
 Gal. 1: 15, 16. But when it pleased God, 
 who separated me from my mother's womb, 
 and called me by his grace, to reveal his 
 Son in me, that I might preach him among 
 the heathen ; immediately I conferred not 
 with flesh and blood. 
 
 On the Law of God in the Heart. 
 
 Ps. 37: 31. The law of his God is in his 
 heart ; none of his steps shall slide. 
 
 R. Hall. Parallel between the War with the 
 Canaanitish Nations and that of 
 Believers with their Spiritual 
 Enemies. 
 Josh. 5: 13-15. 
 
 R. Hall. On Engagedness of Heart in Ap- 
 proaching unto God. 
 
 Jer. 30: 21. And their nobles shall be of 
 themselves, and their governor shall pro- 
 ceed from the midst of them ; and I will 
 cause him to draw near, and he shall ap- 
 proach unto me: for who is this that en- 
 gaged his heart to approach unto me 1 saith 
 the Lord. 
 
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 R. Hall. Prayer for the Increase of Faith. 
 Luke 17: 5. Increase our faith. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 The Comforts of Christians under 
 
 either Worldly or Spiritual Trials. 
 
 Ps. 94: 19. In the multitude of my thoughts 
 within me thy comforts delight my soul. 
 
 R. Hall. The Reward of the Pious in Heaven. 
 
 Mat. 5: 12. Rejoice, and be exceeding 
 glad : for great is your reward in heaven : 
 for so persecuted they the prophets which 
 were before you. 
 
 R. Hall. Love of the Brethren a Criterion of 
 
 Discipleship. 
 
 1 John 3: 14. We know that we have 
 passed from death unto life, because we 
 love the brethren. He that loveth not his 
 brother abideth in death. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 The Duty of Intercession. 
 
 1 Tim. 2: 1. I exhort, therefore, that, first 
 of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, 
 and giving thanks, be made for all men. 
 
 The Discouragements of Pious Men. 
 
 Num. 21: 4. And the soul of the people 
 was much discouraged because of the way. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Christ's Advice to the self-deceiving 
 
 Professor. 
 Rev. 3: 17, 18. 
 
 The Doxology of the Redeemed. 
 Rev. 5: 11-13. 
 
 The Riches of Divine Grace Dis- 
 played. 
 
 Eph. 2: 4-7. 
 
 Conversion a Ground of Thankful- 
 ness. 
 
 Rom. 6: 17. But God be thanked, that ye 
 were the servants of sin, but ye have 
 obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine 
 which was delivered you. 
 
 The Discouragements and Supports 
 
 experienced by God's People. 
 Isa. 40: 29-31. 
 
 God's Treatment of us as Branches 
 
 of the True Vine. 
 
 John 15: 1, 2. I am the true vine, and my 
 Father is the husbandman. Every branch 
 in me that beareth not fruit he taketh 
 away: and every branch that beareth fruit, 
 he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more 
 fruit. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 191 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Slmeon. 
 
 The Christian congratulated on his 
 
 Reliance on Christ. 
 
 Cant. 8: 5. Who is this that cometh up 
 from the wilderness, leaning upon her 
 beloved 1 
 
 Extent and Grounds of Christian 
 
 Obedience. 
 Rom. 14: 7, 9. 
 
 Greatness and Preciousness of the 
 
 Promises. 
 
 2 Peter 1: 4. "Whereby are given unto us 
 exceeding great and precious promises: 
 that by these ye might be partakers of the 
 divine nature, having escaped the corrup- 
 tion that is in the world through lust. 
 
 Exhortation to Holiness. 
 1 Peter 2: II, 12. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 God's Dealings with his People. 
 
 Isa. 42: 16. And I will bring the blind by a 
 way that they knew not ; I will lead them in 
 paths that they have not known : I will 
 make darkness light before them, and 
 crooked things straight. These things will 
 I do unto them, and not forsake them. 
 
 The Glory which Christ gives to his 
 
 People. 
 John 17: 22. And the glory which thou 
 
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 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 gavest me I have given them ; that they 
 may be one even as we are one. 
 
 Simeon. Folly of a Fruitless Profession. 
 
 Luke 6: 46. And why call ye me Lord, 
 Lord, and do not the things which I say 1 
 
 Simeon. Faith Establishes the Law. 
 
 Rom. 3: 31. Do we then make void the 
 law through faith 1 God forbid : yea, we 
 establish the law. 
 
 Simeon. Consolation for the Desponding. 
 
 Isa. 41: 17, 18. 
 
 Simeon. The Security of those who believe 
 
 in Christ. 
 
 1 Peter 2: 6. Wherefore also it is contain- 
 ed in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a 
 chief corner stone, elect, precious : and he 
 that believeth on him shall not be con- 
 founded. 
 
 Simeon. The Difference between Fruitful 
 and Barren Professors. 
 Heb. 6: 7, 8. 
 
 Simeon. An Inquiry into the Reality and 
 Degree of our Faith. 
 John 16: 31. Do ye now believe ?. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 193 
 
 Simeon. The Folly of Unbelief. 
 
 Rom. 3: 3. For what if some did not be- 
 lieve 1 shall their unbelief make the faith of 
 God without effect 1 
 
 Simeon. The Believer's Righteousness. 
 Rom. 3. 21, 22. 
 
 Simeon. Justification in a way that excludes 
 Boasting. 
 
 Rom. 3: 27, 28. Where is boasting then % 
 It is excluded. By what law 1 of works'? 
 Nay : but by the law of faith. Therefore, 
 we conclude that a man is justified by faith 
 without the deeds of the law. 
 
 Simeon. The Office and Operation of Faith. 
 
 Gal. 5: 6. For in Jesus Christ neither cir- 
 cumcision availeth any thing, nor uncir- 
 cumcision ; but faith which worketh by 
 love. 
 
 Simeon. Extent and Importance of a Chris- 
 tian's Duty. 
 
 Mat. 16: 24, 25. Then said Jesus unto his 
 disciples, If any man will come after me, let 
 him deny himself, and take up his cross, 
 and follow me. For whosoever will save 
 his life shall lose it : and whosoever will 
 lose his life for my sake shall find it. 
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 Simeon, 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Self-Deception of Covetous 
 
 Professors. 
 Ezek. 33: 31, 32. 
 
 Warning to carnal, worldly-minded 
 
 Professors. 
 Phil. 3: 18, 19. 
 
 Against a Disposition to Relinquish 
 
 the Lord's Service. 
 
 Luke 9: 62. And Jesus said unto him, No 
 man having put his hand to the plough, and 
 looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. 
 
 The Evil of Backsliding. 
 
 Jer. 2: 19. Thine own wickedness shall 
 correct thee, and thy backslidings shall re- 
 prove thee : know therefore and see that 
 it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast 
 forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my 
 fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of 
 hosts. 
 
 Simeon. Invitation to Backsliders. 
 
 Jer. 3: 22. Return, ye backsliding children, 
 and I will heal your backslidings. 
 
 Our Resurrection with Christ a 
 
 Motive to Heavenly Mindedness. 
 
 Col. 3: 1. If ye then be risen with Christ, 
 seek those things which are above, where 
 Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Simeon. Against Conformity to the World. 
 
 Rom. 12: 2. And be not conformed to this 
 world : but be ye transformed by the re- 
 newing of your mind, that ye may prove 
 what is that good, and acceptable, and per- 
 fect will of God. 
 
 Simeon. Directions for Running a Race. 
 
 1 Cor. 9: 24. Know ye not that they which 
 run in a race run all, but one receiveth the 
 prize % So run, that ye may obtain. 
 
 Simeon. Putting off the Old Man and putting 
 
 on the New. 
 Eph. 4: 22-24. 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Church's Union with Christ. 
 Rev. 19: 7, 8. 
 
 Encouragement to the Weak. 
 Isa. 35: 3, 4. 
 
 Simeon. The Extent of a Christian's Duty. 
 Phil. 4: 8. 
 
 Simeon. Faithfulness Rewarded. 
 Rev. 2: 10. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 A Right Improvement of Electing 
 
 Love. 
 Deut. 7: 6-10. 
 
 Simeon. Nearness of Salvation a Motive to 
 Diligence. 
 
 Rom. 13: 11. And that, knowing the time, 
 that now it is high time to awake out of 
 sleep : for now is our salvation nearer than 
 when we believed. 
 
 Simeon. Vigilance Prescribed. 
 
 Rom. 13: 12. The night is far spent, the 
 day is at hand : let us therefore cast off the 
 works of darkness, and let us put on the 
 armour of light. 
 
 Simeon. Blessedness of the True Christian. 
 
 Luke 11: 28. But he said, Yea, rather, 
 blessed are they that hear the word of God, 
 and keep it. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Nature and Importance of Christian 
 Zeal. 
 
 Gal. 4: 18. But it is good to be zealously 
 affected always in a good thing. 
 
 The Duty of Walking in the Light. 
 John 12: 35, 36. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Joy in Christ. 
 
 Ps. 149: 2. Let Israel rejoice in him that 
 made him : Jet the children of Zion be joy- 
 ful in their King. 
 
 Simeon. The Christian's Strength. 
 
 Eph. 6: 10. Finally, my brethren, be strong 
 in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 
 
 Simeon. God's Presence with his Church. 
 
 Ex. 33: 14. And he said, My presence 
 shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. 
 
 The Blessedness of those Interested 
 
 in Christ's Intercession. 
 
 John 17: 24. Father, I will that they also, 
 whom thou hast given me, be with me where 
 I am ; that they may behold my glory, 
 which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst 
 me before the foundation of the world. 
 
 Simeon. The Inward Witness. 
 
 1 John 5: 10. He that believeth on the Son 
 of God hath the witness in himself: he that 
 believeth not God hath made him a liar ; 
 because he believeth not the record that 
 God gave of his Son. 
 
 Simeon. A Promise of Victory over Sin. 
 
 Rom. 6: 14. For sin shall not have domin- 
 ion over you : for ye are not under the 
 law, but under grace. 
 
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 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Victory over Satan. <*• 
 
 Rom. 16:20. And the God of peace shall 
 bruise Satan under your feet shortly. 
 
 Simeon. The Benefits arising from God's Re- 
 turn to the Soul. 
 Isa. 30: 26. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 God will Constrain his People to 
 
 Return unto Him. 
 Hos. 2: 6, 7. 
 
 The Nature, Author and Finisher 
 
 of a Work of Grace. 
 
 Phil. 1: 6. Being confident of this very 
 thing, that he which hath begun a good 
 work in you will perform it until the day of 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Simeon. The Church's Prosperity. 
 
 Isa. 60: 19. The sun shall be no more thy 
 light by day ; neither for brightness shall 
 the moon give light unto thee : but the 
 Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting 
 light, and thy God thy glory. 
 
 Simeon. God's Care for his Church. 
 
 Isa. 27: 3. I the Lord do keep it j I will 
 water it every moment : lest any hurt it, I 
 will keep it night and day. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Believers are Christ's Property. 
 1 Cor. 3: 23. Ye are Christ's. 
 
 The Privileges of Christ's Flock. 
 
 Luke 12: 32. Fear not, little flock ; for it 
 is your Father's good pleasure to give you 
 the kingdom. 
 
 The Security of all God's People. 
 
 Amos 9: 9. For, lo, 1 will command, and I 
 will sift the house of Israel among all na- 
 tions, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet 
 shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. 
 
 Sowing in Tears. 
 
 Ps. 126: 5. They that sow in tears shall 
 reap in joy. 
 
 All Things work for Good to God's 
 People. 
 
 Rom. 8: 28. And we know that all things 
 work together for good to them that love 
 God, to them who are the called according 
 purpose. 
 
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 The Privilege of those who live Near 
 to God. 
 
 Deut. 32: 12. So the Lord alone did lead 
 him, and there was no strange god with him. 
 
 The Day of Small Things. 
 
 Zech. 4: 10. For who hath despised the 
 day of small things 1 
 
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 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 The Joy of the Lord the Christian's 
 
 Strength. 
 
 Neh. 8: 10. For the joy of the Lord is 
 your strength. 
 
 The Effects of Diligence in Religion, 
 
 Hos. 6: 3. Then shall we know, if we fol- 
 low on to know the Lord. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Reward of Holiness. 
 
 Rev. 3: 4. And they shall walk with me in 
 white : for they are worthy. 
 
 The Victor's Reward. 
 
 Rev. 3: 21. To him that overcometh will 
 I grant to sit with me in my throne, even 
 as I also overcame, and am set down with 
 my Father in his throne. 
 
 The Felicity of the Glorified Saints. 
 Rev. 7: 14-17. 
 
 Simeon. Abraham an Example of Faith. 
 Rom. 4: 20, 21. 
 
 Simeon. The Christian's Choice. 
 
 Ps. 73: 25. Whom have I in heaven but 
 thee? and there is none upon earth that I 
 desire beside thee. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Simeon. Paul's Love to the Elect Exempli- 
 fied. 
 
 2 Tim. 2: 10. Therefore I endure all things 
 for the elect's sakes, that they may also 
 obtain the salvation which is in Christ 
 Jesus with eternal glory. 
 
 Simeon. An Israelite Indeed. 
 
 John 1: 47. Behold an Israelite indeed, 
 in whom is no guile ! 
 
 Simeon. Weanedness from the World. 
 
 Ps. 131: 2. Surely I have behaved and 
 quieted myself, as a child that is weaned 
 of his mother : my soul is even as a weaned 
 child. 
 
 Simeon. Paradoxical Experience. 
 
 2 Cor. 6: 10. As sorrowful, yet a! way 
 rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich ; 
 as having nothing, and yet possessing all 
 things. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Repentance Exemplified in the Co- 
 rinthian Church. 
 
 2 Cor. 7: 10, 11. 
 
 Simeon. Effects of Faith. 
 
 Luke 7: 50. Thy faith hath saved thee. 
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 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Paul's Spiritual Conflicts. 
 
 Rom. 7: 24, 25. O wretched man that I 
 am ! who shall deliver me from the body 
 of this death 1 I thank God through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord. So then with the mind 
 I myself serve the law of God ; but with 
 the flesh the law of sin. 
 
 The Prayer of Jabez. 
 
 1 Chron. 4: 10. And Jabez called on the 
 God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou would- 
 est bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, 
 and that thine hand might be with me, and 
 that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that 
 it may not grieve me ! And God granted 
 him that which he requested. 
 
 Paul's Assurance of Persevering. 
 
 Rom. 8: 38, 39. For I am persuaded, that 
 neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor prin- 
 cipalities, nor powers, nor things present, 
 nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, 
 nor any other creature, shall be able to sep- 
 arate us from the love of God, which is in 
 Christ Jesus our Lord. 
 
 Present Troubles not to be Com- 
 pared with Future Glory. 
 
 Rom. 8: 18. For I reckon that the suffer- 
 ings of this present time are not worthy to 
 be compared with the glory that shal 
 revealed in us. 
 
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 D. A. Clark. The Soul Reluctantly made fast 
 to Earth. 
 Ps. 119: 25. My soul cleaveth unto the 
 
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 dust : quicken thou me according to thy 
 word. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Perfected Good Man. 
 
 * 2 Tim. 3: 17. That the man of God may 
 be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all 
 good works. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Obedience the Test of Affection. 
 
 Mai. 1: 6. A son honoureth his father, and 
 a servant his master : if then I be a father, 
 where is mine honour 1 and if I be a mas- 
 ter, where is my fear 1 saith the Lord of 
 hosts unto you. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Christian's Sheet Anchor. 
 
 Heb. 6: 19. Which hope we have as an anchor 
 of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and 
 which entereth into that within the veil. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Heavenly Fellowship. 
 
 1 John 1: 3. That which we have seen and 
 heard declare we unto you, that ye also 
 may have fellowship with us : and truly our 
 fellowship is with the Father, and with his 
 Son Jesus Christ. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Burning Bush: or the Church 
 
 Safe. 
 
 Ex. 3: 3. And Moses said, I will now turn 
 aside, and see this great sight, why the 
 bush is not bu*nt. 
 
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 D. A. Clark. The Loiterer at the Vineyard. 
 
 Mat. 20: 6. And about the eleventh hour 
 he went out, and found others standing idle, 
 and saith unto them, Why stand ye here 
 all the day idle 1 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Nature and Result of Sanc- 
 tification. • 
 
 John 17: 17. Sanctify them through thy 
 truth : thy word is truth. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Means of Sanctification. 
 John 17: 17. 
 
 D. A. Clark. The Man of God Developed. 
 
 John 15: 19. If ye were of the world, the 
 world would love his own : but because ye 
 are not of the world, but I have chosen you 
 out of the world, therefore the world hateth 
 you. 
 
 D. A. Clark. A Brand plucked from the Fire. 
 
 Luke 23: 43. And Jesus said unto him, 
 Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou 
 be with me in paradise. 
 
 D* 4- Clark. The Only Interest in Safe Keep- 
 ing. 
 
 Deut. 32: 9. For the Lord's portion is his 
 people j Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 
 
 Smalley. Perfection of Saints in Heaven. 
 Heb. 12:. 23, Just men, made perfect. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Smalley. Death and the Grave the Termina- 
 tion of all Evil to the Redeemed. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 26. The last enemy that shall 
 be destroyed is death. 
 
 Smalley. Love to Christ an Essential Evi- 
 dence of Saving Grace. 
 
 Eph. 6: 24. Grace be with all them that 
 love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. 
 Amen. 
 
 Dana. 
 
 Dana. 
 
 Self-Dedication. 
 
 Rom. 6: 13. Neither yield ye your mem- 
 bers as instruments of unrighteousness unto 
 sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those 
 that are alive from the dead, and your mem- 
 bers as instruments of righteousness unto 
 God. 
 
 Future Blessedness of the Righteous. 
 
 1 Thess. 4: 14. For if we believe that Je- 
 sus died and rose again, even so them also 
 which sleep in Jesus will God bring with 
 him. 
 
 Tholuck. Earnest of Eternal Life. 
 Rom. 8: 15-17. 
 
 Tholuck. The Presence of God with his Chil- 
 dren. 
 
 James 4r 8. Draw nigh to God, and he 
 will draw nigh to you. 
 
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 Whitefield. Persecution Every Christian's Lot. 
 
 2 Tim. 3: 12. Yea v and all that will live 
 godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- 
 tion. 
 
 Whitefield. Abraham Offering up Isaac. 
 
 Gen. 22: 12. And he said, Lay not thine 
 hand upon the lad, neither do thou any 
 thing unto him: for now I know that thou 
 fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld 
 thy son, thine only son from me. 
 
 Whitefield. Saul's Conversion. 
 
 Acts 9: 22. But Saul increased the more 
 in strength, and confounded the Jews which 
 dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very 
 Christ. 
 
 Whitefield. Christ the Believer's Wisdom, 
 
 Righteousness, Sanctification and 
 
 Redemption. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 30. But of him are ye in Christ 
 Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, 
 and righteousness, and sanctification, and 
 redemption. 
 
 Whitefield. The Indwelling of the Spirit the 
 Privilege of all Believers. 
 
 John 7: 37-39. 
 
 Whitefield. Christ the Believer's Refuge. 
 Ps. 46: 1-6. 
 
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 Whitefield. Soul Prosperity. 
 
 3 John 2. Beloved, I wish above all things 
 that thou mayest prosper and be in health, 
 even as thy soul prospereth. 
 
 Whitefield. Soul Dejection. 
 
 Ps. 43: 5. Why art thou cast down, O my 
 soul 1 and why art thou disquieted within 
 me % hope in God: for I shall yet praise 
 him, who is the health of my countenance 
 and my God. 
 
 McWhorter. The Duty of Declining Chris- 
 tians. 
 Rev. 2:4, 5. 
 
 Faith Struggling with Difficulties. 
 Mat. 15: 21-28. 
 
 A. Lee. Gifts no Evidence of Grace. 
 
 Luke 10: 20. Notwithstanding in this re- 
 joice not, that the spirits are subject unto 
 you ; but rather rejoice, because your 
 names are written in heaven. 
 
 Lathrop. Departed Saints Fellow-Servants 
 
 with those on Earth. 
 
 Rev. 22: 9. Then saith he unto me, See 
 thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, 
 and of thy brethren the prophets, and of 
 them which keep the sayings of this book : 
 worship God. 
 
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 Lathrop. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 The Paralytic Healed on the Faith 
 of Others. 
 
 Mark 2: 5. When Jesus saw their faith, he 
 said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy 
 sins be forgiven thee. 
 
 The Christian Characterized who 
 has been with Jesus. 
 
 Acts 4: 13. Now when they saw the bold- 
 ness of Peter and John, and perceived that 
 they were unlearned and ignorant men, 
 they marvelled ; and they took knowledge 
 of them that they had been with Jesus. 
 
 The Temper of a Christian with 
 
 Regard to Moral Good or Evil. 
 
 Rom. 12: 9. Abhor that which is evil; 
 cleave to that which is good. 
 
 Anointing of the Spirit sure Evi- 
 dence of our Title to Eternal Life. 
 
 1 John 2: 27. But the anointing which ye 
 have received of him abideth in you, and ye 
 need not that any man teach you : but as 
 the same anointing teacheth you of all 
 things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even 
 as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in 
 him. 
 
 Christian Fellowship. 
 
 1 John 1:7. If we walk in light we have 
 fellowship one with another. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Lathrop. Steadfastness in Religion. 
 
 1 Thess. 3: 8. For now we live, if ye stand 
 fast in the Lord. 
 
 Lathrop. Samson Shorn of his Locks. 
 
 Judges 16: 20. And. she said, The Philis- 
 tines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke 
 out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as 
 at other times before, and shake myself. 
 And he wist not that the Lord was departed 
 from him. 
 
 Lathrop. The Believer's Blessed Hope. 
 
 Titus 2: 13. Looking for that blessed hope, 
 and the glorious appearing of the great God 
 and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 Lathrop. Love to Christ. 
 
 1 Peter 1: 8. Whom having not seen, ye 
 love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, 
 yet believing-, ye rejoice with joy unspeak- 
 able and full of glory. 
 
 Dehon. Solicitude for Religion. 
 
 1 Sam. 4: 13. For his heart trembled for 
 the ark of God. 
 
 Skelton. The True Christian both Dead and 
 
 Alive. 
 
 Col. 3: 3. For ye are dead, and your life is 
 hid with Christ in God. 
 
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 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Skelton. The Wisdom of this World. 
 
 Luke 16: 8. The children of this world are 
 wiser in their generation than the children 
 of light. 
 
 HoRNE. 
 
 HoRNE. 
 
 HORNE. 
 
 The Race. 
 
 1 Cor. 9: 24-. So run that ye may obtain. 
 
 Horne. The Armour. 
 
 Eph. 11: 11. Put on the whole armour of 
 God. 
 
 Union. 
 
 2 Cor. 13: 11. Be of one mind. 
 
 Mixture of Joy and Fear in Religion . 
 Ps. 2: 11. Rejoice with trembling. 
 
 Horne. Enoch's Translation. 
 
 Gen. 5r 24. And Enoch walked with God 
 and he was not : for God took him. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Evidences of Adoption. 
 
 John 1: 12. But as many as received him, 
 to them gave he power to become the sons 
 of God, even to them that believe on his 
 name. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Ungodly Professors Admon- 
 ished. 
 
 James 4: 8. Purify your hearts, ye double- 
 minded. 
 
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 Pulpit Sketches. Disagreement among Breth- 
 ren. 
 
 Gen. 45: 24. See that ye fall not out by 
 the way. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Elijah's Defection. 
 
 1 Kings 19: 9. What doest thou here, 
 Elijah 1 "] 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Believer's Triumph. 
 Ps. 118: 10-12. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Paul's Constancy. 
 Acts 21: 10-14. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Christian Edification. 
 2 Pet. 1: 5-8. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Invitation to Enlarged 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 Ps. 81: 10. Open thy mouth wide, and I 
 will fill it. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Glorying in the Cross. 
 
 Gal. 6: 14. But God forbid that I should 
 glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto 
 me, and I unto the world. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Penitential Sacrifice. 
 
 Ps. 51: 17. The sacrifices of God are a 
 
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212 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 broken spirit : a broken and a contrite heart, 
 O God, thou wilt not despise. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Christian Perfection an Ob- 
 ject of Prayer and Effort. 
 
 Heb. 13: 20, 21. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Spiritual Enlargement. 
 
 Ps. 142: 7. Bring my soul out of prison, 
 that I may praise thy name : the righteous 
 shall compass me about ; for thou shalt deal 
 bountifully with me. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Religious Steadfastness. 
 
 o- 
 
 2 Kings 18: 6. For he clave to the Lord, 
 and departed not from following him, but 
 kept his commandments, which the Lord 
 commanded Moses. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Practical Inconsistencies re- 
 proved. 
 
 James 3: 10. Out of the same mouth pro- 
 ceedeth blessing and cursing. My breth- 
 ren, these things ought not so to be. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. The Apostle's Prayer. 
 
 Luke 17: 5. Lord, increase our faith. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Wicked Professors the Bane 
 
 of the Church. 
 
 Jer. 5: 26. For among my people are found 
 vicked men. 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Pulpit Sketches. Importance of Living to 
 
 Convert Sinners. 
 
 James 5: 20. Let him know, that he which 
 converteth a sinner from the error of his 
 way, shall save a soul from death, and shall 
 hide a multitude of sins. 
 
 Dana. 
 
 Dana. 
 
 Burder. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 A Christian Character the best De- 
 fence of Christianity. 
 1 Pet. 3: 15, 16. 
 
 Business of Life and Hope in Death. 
 
 Acts 13: 36. For David, after he had served 
 his own generation by the will of God, fell 
 on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and 
 saw corruption. 
 
 Danger of Formality and Hypocrisy. 
 
 Mat. 7: 21. Not every one that saith unto 
 me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- 
 dom of heaven ; hut he that doeth the will 
 of my Father which is in heaven. 
 
 Burder. Zeal for the Salvation of Sinners. 
 
 Rom. 10: 1. Brethren, my heart's desire 
 and prayer to God for Israel is, that they 
 might be saved. 
 
 Nature of Faith in Christ. 
 
 John 6: 27. Labour not for the meat which 
 perisheth, but for that meat which endureth 
 unto everlasting life, which the Son of man 
 shall give unto you : for him hath God the 
 Father sealed. 
 
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 BURDER. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 The Christian Temper. 
 
 Phil. 2: 5. Let this mind be in you, which 
 was also in Christ Jesus. 
 
 Christian Practice. 
 Tit. 2: 11, 12. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 BURDER. 
 
 BURDER, 
 
 Conversion of Lydia. 
 
 Acts 16: 14. And a certain woman named 
 Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of 
 Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us : 
 whose heart the Lord opened, that she at- 
 tended unto the things which were spoken 
 of Paul. 
 
 On Following the Lord Fully. 
 
 Numb. 14: 24. My servant Caleb hath fol- 
 lowed me fully. 
 
 Superabounding Grace. 
 
 Rom. 5: 20. Moreover the law entered, 
 that the offence might abound. But where 
 sin abounded, grace did much more abound. 
 
 Spiritual Resurrection. 
 
 John 5: 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
 The hour is coming, and now is, when the 
 dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God : 
 and they that hear shall live. 
 
 Burder. Practical Knowledge of Christ. 
 
 Eph. 4: 20, 21. But ye have not so learned 
 
MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
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 Christ : if so be that ye have heard him, and 
 have been taught by him, as the truth is in 
 Jesus. 
 
 Burder. The Happy Believer. 
 
 Luke 1: 45. And blessed is she that be- 
 lieved ; for there shall be a performance of 
 those things which were told her from the 
 Lord. 
 
 Burder. Complete Purification. 
 
 1 John 5: 3. And every man that hath this 
 hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is 
 pure. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On a Good Profession. 
 
 1 Tim. 6: 12. Fight the good fight of faith, 
 lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art 
 also called, and hast professed a good pro- 
 fession before many witnesses. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Christ Loves his Children to 
 the End. 
 
 John 13: 1. Having loved his own which 
 were in the world, he loved them unto the 
 end. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Portion of the Righteous. 
 
 Rom. 2: 10. But glory, honour, and peace, 
 to every man that worketh good, to the 
 Jew first, and also to the Gentile. 
 
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 Pres. Edwards. The Pure in Heart Blessed. 
 
 Mat. 5: 8. Blessed are the pure in heart : 
 for they shall see God. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Christians a Chosen Genera- 
 tion, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy 
 Nation, a Peculiar People. 
 1 Pet. 2: 9. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Peace which Christ gives. 
 
 John 14: 27. Peace I leave with you, my 
 peace I give unto you : not as the world 
 giveth, give I unto you. Let not your 
 heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Reality of Spiritual Light. 
 
 Mat. 16: 17. And Jesus answered and said 
 unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona : 
 for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto 
 thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Church's Marriage. 
 Isa. 62: 4, 5. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Christian Knowledge. 
 
 Heb. 5: 12. For when for the time ye ought 
 to be teachers, ye have need that one teach 
 you again which be the first principles of 
 the oracles of God ; and are become such 
 as have need of milk, and not of strong 
 meat. 
 
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 Pres. Edwards. God the Portion of the Chris- 
 tian. 
 
 Ps. 73: 25. Whom have I in heaven but 
 thee ? and there is none upon earth that I 
 desire beside thee. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Necessity of Self-Exam- 
 
 ination. 
 
 Ps. 139: 23, 24. Search me, O God, and 
 know my heart : try me, and know my 
 thoughts : and see if there be any wicked 
 way in me, and lead me in the way ever- 
 lasting. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. A Warning to Professors. 
 Ezek. 23: 37-39. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. True Grace Distinguished 
 
 from the Experience of Devils. 
 
 James 2: 19. Thou believest that there is 
 one God ; thou doest well : the devils also 
 believe, and tremble. 
 
 Massilon. The Uncertainty of Righteousness 
 in a State of Lukewarmness. 
 
 Massilon. The Certainty of the Loss of Right- 
 eousness in a State of Luke- 
 
 warmness. 
 
 Massilon. Works of the Flesh and Spirit Dis- 
 tinguished. 
 John 3: 6. That which is born of the flesh 
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218 MAN AS A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit 
 is spirit. 
 
 W. B. Sprague. The Christian Desires not to 
 live Alway. 
 
 Job 7: 16. I would not live alway. 
 
 Leighton. Generous Grief. 
 
 Ps. 119: 136. Rivers of water run down 
 mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. 
 
 Leighton. The Believer a Hero. 
 
 Ps. 112: 7. He shall not be afraid of evil 
 tidings : his heart is fixed, trusting in the 
 Lord. 
 
 Leighton. Encouragement to Holiness. 
 
 2 Cor. 7: 1. Having therefore these prom- 
 ises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves 
 from all fllthiness of the flesh and spirit, 
 perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 
 
 Leighton. Divine Grace and Holy Obedience. 
 
 Ps. 119: 32. I will run the way of thy 
 commandments, when thou shalt enlarge 
 my heart. 
 
 Leighton. The Christian Triumph. 
 
 Rom. 8: 35. Who shall separate us from 
 the love of Christ 1 shall tribulation, or 
 distress, or persecution, or famine, or 
 nakedness, or peril, or sword ? 
 
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 Leighton. Imperfection and Perfection. 
 
 Ps. 119: 96. I have seen an end of all per- 
 fection : but thy commandment is exceed- 
 ing broad. 
 
 Leighton. The Confidence of Faith. 
 Hab. 3: 17, 18. 
 
 Leighton. The Law Written on the Heart. 
 
 Heb. 8: 10. For this is the covenant that 
 I will make with the house of Israel, after 
 those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my 
 laws into their mind, and write them in 
 their hearts : and I will be to them a God, 
 and they shall be to me a people. 
 
SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO MAN IN HIS SOCIAL 
 RELATIONS. 
 
 Barrow. On Living in Peace among Neigh- 
 bours. 
 
 Kom. 12: 18. If it be possible, as much as 
 lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 
 
 Jay. The Happy Family. 
 
 John 11: 5. Now Jesus loved Martha, and 
 her sister, and Lazarus. 
 
 Jay. The Benefit of Christian Inter- 
 
 course. 
 
 Acts 28: 15. And from thence, when the 
 brethren heard of us, they came to meet us 
 as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Tav- 
 erns ; whom when Paul saw, he thanked 
 God, and took courage. 
 
 Jay. The Advantage of having Godly 
 
 Parents. 
 
 Prov. 13: 22. A good man leaveth an in- 
 heritance to his children's children. 
 
 Jay. The Happy Parent. 
 
 Prov. 23: 15. My son, if thine heart be 
 wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 
 
SOCIAL RELATIONS. 221 
 
 Jay. Domestic Happiness. 
 
 Ps. 118: 15. The voice of rejoicing is in the 
 tabernacles of the righteous. 
 
 Mutual Duties of Husbands and 
 Wives. 
 
 1 Peter 3: 1-7. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Christian Education. 
 
 Prov. 22: 6. Train up a child in the way 
 he should go : and when he is old, he will 
 not depart from it. 
 
 J. Matthews. The Duty of Family Worship. 
 
 R. Hall. 2 Sam. 6: 20. Then David returned to 
 
 bless his household. 
 
 J. Nelson. Characteristics of a Family Gov- 
 erned by Religious Principle. 
 
 Mat. 10: 13. And if the house be worthy, 
 let your peace come upon it. 
 
 A. W. Leland. The Guilt and Misery attend- 
 ant on Parental Indulgence. 
 
 1 Sam. 3: 13. For I have told him that I 
 will judge his house forever for the ini- 
 quity which he knoweth ; because his sons 
 made themselves vile, and he restrained 
 them not. 
 
 J. M. Matthews. The Religious Influence of 
 Mothers. 
 2 Kings 4: 19. Carry him to his mother. 
 
222 SOCIAL RELATIONS. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Necessity and Excellence 
 
 of Family Religion. 
 
 2 Tim. 5: 8. But if any provide not for his 
 own, and especially for those of his own 
 house, he hath denied the faith, and is 
 worse than an infidel. 
 
 Carnahan. Filial Duty. 
 
 Prov. 1: 8. My son, hear the instruction 
 of thy father, and forsake not the law of 
 thy mother. 
 
 Parental Privilege and Obligation. 
 
 Gen. 17: 7. And I will establish my cove- 
 nant between me and thee, and thy seed 
 after thee in their generations for an ever- 
 lasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, 
 and to thy seed after thee. 
 
 SUBJECTS FOR COMMUNION.— (Sec Christ and Christian.) 
 
 Saurin. The Crucifixion. 
 Mat. 27: 45-53. 
 
 Saurin. Christ's Valedictory Address to his 
 Disciples. 
 
 John 14: 15, 16. If ye love me, keep my 
 commandments. And I will pray the Fa- 
 ther, and he shall give you another Com- 
 forter, that he may abide with you forever. 
 
COMMUNION. 223 
 
 Saurin. The Table of Shew Bread and the 
 Eucharist. 
 Mai. 1: 6, 7. 
 
 A. Dickinson. Gain from the Sufferings of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 Luke 24: 26. Ought not Christ to have 
 suffered these things, and to enter into his 
 glory 1 
 
 W. B. Sprague. The Mediation of Christ the 
 
 Ground of the Believer's Triumph. 
 
 Rom. 8: 34. Who is he that condemneth'? 
 It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is 
 risen again, who is even at the right hand 
 of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 
 
 I. Lewis. The Union of Believers with Christ. 
 
 John 15: 5. I am the vine, ye are the 
 branches. 
 
 G. C. Beckwith. Influence of the Atonement 
 on the Believer's Conscience. 
 Heb. 9: 13, 14. 
 
 Pres. Da vies. The Sufferings of Christ, and 
 their consequent Joys and Bless- 
 ings. 
 Isa. 53: 10, 11. 
 
224 
 
 COMMUNION. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Divine Perfections Illus- 
 trated in the Method of Salvation 
 through the Sufferings of Christ. 
 John 12: 27, 28. 
 
 A. Fuller. Conformity to the Death of Christ. 
 
 Phil. 3: 10. Being made conformable to 
 his death. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 The Design and Importance of the 
 
 Lord's Supper. 
 
 1 Cor. 24: 26. This do in remembrance of 
 me. 
 
 Preparation Requisite for the Sup- 
 per. 
 
 1 Cor. 11: 28. But let a man examine 
 himself, and so let him eat of that bread, 
 and drink of that cup. 
 
 Our Lord's Trial and Execution. 
 
 Isa. 53: 8. He was taken from prison and 
 from judgment, and who shall declare his 
 generation! for he was cut off out of the 
 land of the living : for the transgression of 
 my people was he stricken. 
 
 Christ's Complaint on the Cross. 
 
 Mat. 27: 46. And about the ninth hour Je- 
 sus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, 
 Eli, lama sabachthani \ that is to say, My 
 God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me \ 
 
COMMUNION. 225 
 
 Simeon. The True Gause of our Lord's Suf- 
 ferings. 
 
 Isa. 53: 5. But he was wounded for our 
 transgressions, he was bruised for our ini- 
 quities: the chastisement of our peace was 
 upon him ; and with his stripes we are 
 healed. 
 
 Simeon. The Grounds of Praise to Christ, 
 Rev. 1 : 5, 6. 
 
 McWhorter. The Covenant of Grace Ratified 
 
 and Confirmed by the Blood of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 Luke 22 : 20. Likewise also the cup after 
 supper, saying-, This cup is the new testa- 
 ment in my blood, which is shed for you. 
 
 Lathrop. The Disciples Gazing after their 
 Ascended Lord. 
 Acts 1: 10, 11. 
 
 John Leaning on Jesus' Bosom. 
 
 John 13: 23. Now there was leaning on 
 Jesus' bosom, one of his disciples, whom 
 Jesus loved. 
 
 The Death of Christ. 
 
 John 17: 1. Father, the hour is come. 
 
 The Lord's Table. 
 Ps. 23: 5. Thou preparest a table before 
 20 
 
226 FAST. 
 
 me in the presence of mine enemies : thou 
 anointest my head with oil : my cup run- 
 neth over. 
 
 Prerequisites for Communing with 
 
 God. 
 
 Amos 3: 3. Can two walk together except 
 they be agreed 1 
 
 Christ's Agony in the Garden. 
 
 Mat. 26: 38. Then saith he unto them, My 
 soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto 
 death : tarry ye here, and watch with me. 
 
 The Last Supper. 
 
 Luke 22: 15. And he said unto them, With 
 desire I have desired to eat this passover 
 with you before I suffer. 
 
 Attraction of the Cross. 
 
 John 12: 32. And I, if I be lifted up from 
 the earth, will draw all men unto me. 
 
 SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO FAST. 
 
 Sin Ruins a Kingdom. 
 
 1 Sam. 12: 24, 25. Only fear the Lord, and 
 serve him in truth with all your heart : for 
 consider how great things he hath done for 
 you. But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye 
 shall be consumed, both ye and your king. 
 
FAST. 227 
 
 L. Beecher. The Gospel the only Security for 
 Eminent and Abiding National 
 Prosperity. 
 Jer. 9: 23, 24. 
 
 L. Beecher. Propriety and Importance of Ef- 
 forts to Evangelize the Nation. 
 (Same text.) 
 
 S. Miller. The Duty, Method, and Benefits of 
 Fasting. 
 
 Dan. 9: 3. And I set my face unto the 
 Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplica- 
 tions, with fasting, and sackcloth, and 
 ashes. 
 
 Pres. Davies. A Crisis : or the Uncertain Doom 
 
 of Kingdoms at particular Times. 
 
 Jonah 3: 9. Who can tell if God will turn 
 and repent, and turn away from his fierce 
 anger, that we perish not % 
 
 A. Fuller. The Duty of Religious People to- 
 ward their Country. 
 
 Jer. 29: 7. And seek the peace of the city 
 whither I have caused you to be carried 
 away captives, and pray unto the Lord for 
 it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have 
 peace. 
 
 Humiliation before God. 
 
 James 4: 10. Humble yourselves in the 
 sight of the Lord. 
 
228 
 Simeon. 
 
 FAST. 
 
 A Complaint of Men's Unconcern 
 
 about Repentance. 
 Isa. 22: 12-14. 
 
 Simeon. Obstinacy under Chastisements. 
 
 Isa. 9: 13. For the people turnethnot unto 
 him that smiteth them, neither do they seek 
 the Lord of hosts. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Ingratitude for Mercies Received. 
 Ps. 106: 21-23. 
 
 Exhortation to Return to God. 
 Jer. 13: 15-17. 
 
 Simeon. Exhortation to Flee to God in Time 
 of Danger. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Isa. 26: 20, 21. 
 
 God only to be Feared. 
 Isa. 8: 12-14. 
 
 Simeon. Exhortation to Covenant with God. 
 
 2 Chron. 29: 10, 11. Now it is in mine 
 heart to make a covenant with the Lord 
 God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn 
 away from us. My sons, be not now negli- 
 gent ; for the Lord hath chosen you to 
 stand before him, to serve him, and that ye 
 should minister unto him, and burn incense. 
 
fast. -. , 229 
 
 Simeon. Directions for a Profitable Approach 
 to God. 
 
 1 Kings 8: 38, 39. 
 
 Simeon. Encouragement to all who seek God 
 Aright. 
 Jer. 29: 11-13. 
 
 E. T. Fitch. National Prosperity Perpetuated. 
 
 Ps. 115: 15. Ye are blessed of the Lord, 
 who made heaven and earth. 
 
 The Goodness of God and the Wick- 
 edness of Man. 
 Isa. 59: 1, 2. 
 
 The Observation of Providence. 
 
 Ps. 107: 43. Whoso is wise, and will ob- 
 serve these things, even they shall under- 
 stand the loving-kindness of the Lord. 
 
 Mercy Despised and Contempt Pun- 
 ished. 
 Isa. 30: 15-18. 
 
 Calamities to be Cautiously Inter- 
 preted. 
 Luke 13: 1-9. 
 
 20* 
 
SUBJECTS AND TEXTS APPROPRIATE TO THANKS- 
 GIVING. 
 
 Barrow. Habitual Thankfulness. 
 
 Eph. 5: 20. Giving thanks always, for all 
 things, unto God. 
 
 Saurin. 
 
 Payson. 
 
 Howe. The Blessing of an Obedient Peo- 
 
 ple. 
 
 Ps. 29: 1. The Lord will bless his people 
 with peace. 
 
 Manner of Praising God. 
 
 Ps. 33: 1. Praise is comely for the upright. 
 
 A Festival kept to the Lord. 
 
 Lev. 23: 29. For whatsoever soul it be that 
 shall not be afflicted in that same day, he 
 shall be cut off from among his people. 
 
 The Advantages of Civil Govern- 
 ment, Contrasted with the Bless- 
 ings of the Spiritual Kingdom of 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Simeon. Effect which National 
 should have upon us. 
 Ps. 106: 10-12. 
 
 Mercies 
 
Simeon. 
 
 THANKSGIVING. 
 
 231 
 
 Our Present Peace and Prosperity 
 ascribed to God alone. 
 
 Ps. 126: 3. The Lord hath done 
 things for us, whereof we are glad. 
 
 great 
 
 Simeon. The Seasonableness of God's Mer- 
 cies acknowledged. 
 
 Zech. 14: 7. But it shall be one day which 
 shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor 
 night : but it shall come to pass, that at eve- 
 ning time it shall be light. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Our Mercies Widely Different from 
 our Deserts. 
 
 Jer. 51: 5. For Israel hath not been forsa- 
 ken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of 
 hosts : though their land was filled with sin 
 against the Holy One of Israel. 
 
 A Call to Men to Praise God. 
 
 Ps. 107: 8, 9. 
 
 Praise for taking away Judgments. 
 Zeph. 3: 14, 15. 
 
 Simeon. God's Mercies Demand our Love, 
 Confidence and Obedience. 
 
 Lathrop. Thankfulness to God for his Daily 
 Benefits. 
 Ps. 68: 19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily 
 
232 
 
 THANKSGIVING. 
 
 loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our 
 salvation. 
 
 Lathrop. Noah's Thankfulness. 
 Gen. 8: 20-22. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Universal Praise for Redemption. 
 
 Isa. 44: 23. Sing, O ye heavens ; for the 
 Lord hath done it ; shout, ye lower parts 
 of the earth : break forth into singing, ye 
 mountains, O forest, and every tree there- 
 in : for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and 
 glorified himself in Israel. 
 
 H. G. Ludlow. Our Happy Form of Government. 
 
 Ps. 16: 5. The Lord is the portion of mine 
 inheritance and of my cup: thou maintain- 
 est my lot. 
 
 Leighton. 
 
 A Summary of Spiritual Privileges. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 30. But of him are ye in Christ 
 Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, 
 and righteousness, and sanctification, and 
 redemption. 
 
SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO NEW YEAR. 
 
 Jay. A Review of the Privileges, Mer- 
 
 cies, Sorrows and Sins of Life. 
 
 Eccl. 3: 15. And God requireth that which 
 is past. 
 
 Jay. Our Ignorance of Futurity. 
 
 Phil. 2: 23. So soon as I shall see how it 
 will go with me. 
 
 Jay. The Barren Fig-Tree. 
 
 Luke 13: 6-9. 
 
 Saurin. On Numbering Our Days. 
 
 Ps. 90: 12. So teach us to number our 
 days, that we may apply our hearts unto 
 wisdom. 
 
 H. Humphrey. Time Measured by Eternity. 
 
 James 4: 14. For what is your life 1 It is 
 even a vapour, that appeareth for a little 
 time and then'vanisheth away. 
 
 The Lapse of Time should waken 
 us to Duty. 
 
 Rom. 12: 1. I beseech you therefore, breth- 
 ren, by the mercies of God, that ye present 
 your bodies a living- sacrifice, holy, accep- 
 table unto God, which is your reasonable 
 service. 
 
234 
 Simeon. 
 
 NEW YEAR. 
 
 God's Eternity Considered in Refer- 
 ence to the Suspension of his 
 Promised Purposes. 
 
 2 Pet. 3: 8. But beloved, be not ignorant 
 of this one thing, that one day is with the 
 Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand 
 years as one day. 
 
 The Redemption of Time. 
 Col. 4: 5. Redeeming the time. 
 
 The Changing Nature of Worldly- 
 Things. 
 
 1 Cor. 7: 31. The fashion of this world 
 passeth away. 
 
 Lathrop. The Shortness of Time. 
 
 1 Cor. 7: 29. The time is short. 
 
 Lathrop. Life a Journey. 
 
 Ps. 119: 19. I am a stranger in the earth. 
 
 Lathrop. A Proper Estimate of Human Life. 
 
 Ps. 39: 5. Thou hast made my days as a 
 hand-breadth. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Dreadful Uncertainty of the 
 Present Life. 
 Eccl. 9: 12. For man also knoweth not 
 
ORDINATION. 235 
 
 his time : as the fishes that are taken in an 
 evil net, and as the birds that are caught 
 in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared 
 in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly 
 upon them. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Preciousness of Time. 
 
 Eph. 5: 16. Redeeming the time, because 
 the days are evil. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Instability of Life. 
 James 4: 13-15. 
 
 SUBJECTS AND TEXTS APPROPRIATE TO ORDINATION. 
 
 Ps. 132: 16. I will also clothe her priests 
 with salvation. 
 
 
 Pres. Appleton. The Christian Minister should 
 
 give no Offence. 
 
 2 Cor. 6: 3. Giving no offence in any thing, 
 that the ministry be not blamed. 
 
 The Minister's Request. 
 
 1 Thess. 5: 25. Brethren pray for us. 
 
 
 Importance of an Evangelical Min- 
 istry. 
 1 Cor. 2: 15, 16. 
 
236 ORDINATION. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Responsibility of the 
 Gospel Ministry. 
 
 Heb. 13: 7. Remember them which have 
 the rule over you, who have spoken unto 
 you the word of God : whose faith follow, 
 considering the end of their conversation. 
 
 The Different Methods of Preachers. 
 1 Cor 3: 11-15. 
 
 R. S. Storrs. Christian and Ministerial Self- 
 Denial and Faithfulness urged 
 from the Example of Christ. 
 
 2 Cor. 8: 9. For ye know the grace of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, 
 yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye 
 through his poverty might be rich. 
 
 D. Bishop. Purification of the Sacred Ministry. 
 Mai. 3: 3, 4. 
 
 L. Woods. Apostolic Preaching. 
 Acts 20: 21, 25-27. 
 
 R. S. Storrs. Unsearchable Riches of Christ. 
 
 J. H. Church. Eph. 3: 8. Unto me, who am less than the 
 least of all saints, is this grace given, that 
 I should preach among the Gentiles the 
 unsearchable riches of Christ. 
 
ORDINATION. 237 
 
 B. Dickinson. The Importance and Means of 
 an Able Ministry. 
 
 2 Tim. 2: 15. A workman that needeth not 
 to be ashamed. 
 
 T. McAuley. The Faithful Preacher and 
 Wages of Unfaithfulness. 
 
 1 Cor. 9: 16. Wo is unto me if I preach 
 not the gospel. 
 
 Variety Essential in Preaching. 
 
 Mat. 13: 52. Then said he unto them, 
 Therefore every scribe which is instructed 
 unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a 
 man that is a householder, which bringeth 
 forth out of his treasure things new and old. 
 
 N. Emmons. Preaching should be addressed to 
 the Understanding. 
 
 Acts 17: 2. And Paul, as his manner was, 
 went in unto them, and three sabbath days 
 reasoned with them out of the scriptures. 
 
 N. Emmons. The Nature and Effect of Divine 
 Teaching. 
 
 John 6: 45. It is written in the prophets, 
 And they shall be all taught of God. Every 
 man therefore that hath heard, and hath 
 learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 
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238 ORDINATION. 
 
 N. Emmons. Christ as a Preacher. 
 
 John 7: 46. Never man spake like this man. 
 
 N. Emmons. Christ's Ministers Thankful for 
 
 their Office. 
 
 1 Tim. 1: 12. And I thank Christ Jesus 
 our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he 
 counted me faithful, putting me into the 
 ministry. 
 
 N. Emmons. The Preaching which Declares the 
 
 Whole Counsel of God. 
 
 Acts 20: 27. For I have not shunned to 
 declare unto you all the counsel of God. 
 
 N. Emmons. A Wise Preacher aims to Impress. 
 
 Eccl. 12: 11. The words of the wise are 
 as goads. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. How Ministers must give 
 
 themselves wholly to their Work. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 15. Meditate upon these things ; 
 give thyself wholly to them j that thy profit- 
 ing may appear to all. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Ministers exposed to be Cor- 
 rupted by their People. 
 
 Ezek. 2: 8. But thou, son of man, hear 
 what T say unto thee ; Be not thou rebellious 
 like that rebellious house : open thy mouth, 
 and eat that I give thee. 
 
ORDINATION. 239 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Religious Instructors are 
 very useful in Civil Society. 
 
 2Chron. 24: 15, 16. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Tender Anxieties of Minis- 
 ters for their People. 
 
 Gal. 4: 19, 20. My little children, of whom 
 I travail in birth again until Christ be form- 
 ed in you, I desire to be present with you 
 now, and to change my voice j for I stand 
 in doubt of you. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Success of the Ministry 
 
 Chalmers. depends upon Divine Influence. 
 
 1 Cor. 3: 7. So then neither is he that 
 planteth any thing, neither he that water- 
 eth, but God that giveth the increase. 
 
 Pres. Davies. The Love of Souls a Necessary 
 
 Qualification for the Ministerial 
 
 Office. 
 
 1 Thess. 2: 8. So being affectionately de- 
 sirous of you, we were willing to have im- 
 parted unto you, not the gospel of God 
 only, but also our own souls, because ye 
 were dear unto us. 
 
 A. Fuller. Qualifications and Encouragement 
 
 of a Faithful Minister. 
 
 Acts 11: 24. For he was a good man, and 
 full of the Holy Ghost and of faith : and 
 much people was added unto the Lord. 
 
240 
 
 ORDINATION. 
 
 The Mysterious Aspect of the Gos- 
 pel to the Men of the World. 
 
 Ezek. 20: 49. Then said I, Ah Lord God ! 
 they say of me, Doth he not speak para- 
 bles 1 
 
 R. Hall. Christ's Care over Ministers and 
 
 Churches. 
 
 Rev. 2: 1. Unto the angel of the church of 
 Ephesus write ; These things saith he that 
 holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, 
 who walketh in the midst of the seven gold- 
 en candlesticks. 
 
 Simeon. The Character and Aim of a Chris- 
 tian Minister. 
 
 Col. 4: 12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a 
 servant of Christ, saluteth you, always la- 
 bouring fervently for you in prayers, that 
 ye may stand perfect and complete in all 
 the will of God. 
 
 Simeon. Importance of the Leading Doctrines 
 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 Acts 10: 43. To him give all the prophets 
 witness, that through his name whosoever 
 believeth in him shall receive remission of 
 sins. 
 
 D. A. Clark. Gospel Truth Distinguished. 
 John 18: 38. What is truth { 
 
OKDINATION. 241 
 
 The Honest and Faithful Minister. 
 
 2 Cor. 4:1, 2. 
 
 Men Saved through the Instrumen- 
 tality of the Gospel Ministry. 
 
 1 Cor. 1: 12. Now this I say, that every- 
 one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of 
 Apollos j and 1 of Cephas j and I of Christ. 
 
 The Apostolic Ministry. 
 
 Acts 10: 36. The word which God sent 
 unto the children of Israel, preaching 
 peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all). 
 
 Ministerial Fidelity. 
 
 Jer. 25: 3. I have spoken unto you, rising 
 early and speaking ; but ye have not hear- 
 kened. 
 
 Witherspoon. Ministerial Character and Duty. 
 
 2 Cor. 4: 12. So then death worketh in us, 
 but life in you. 
 
 I. Lewis. The Peculiar Importance of Exem- 
 plary Piety in Ministers of the 
 Gospel. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 12. Let no man despise thy 
 youth 5 but be thou an example of the be- 
 lievers, in word, in conversation, in charity, 
 in spirit, in faith, in purity. 
 21* 
 
242 
 
 ORDINATION. 
 
 Efficacy of the Gospel above all 
 Worldly Wisdom. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Ministers and their Converts a 
 Mutual Rejoicing in the Day of 
 Christ. 
 
 1 Thess. 2: 19. For what is our hope, or 
 joy, or crown of rejoicing 1 Are not even 
 ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ 
 at his coming \ 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Duty of Preaching the Pure 
 Gospel. 
 Gal. 1: 8, 9. 
 
 Calhoun. The Means and Pre-eminent Advan- 
 tage of God's Dwelling with a 
 People. 
 
 Ex. 25: 8. And let them make me a sanctu- 
 ary, that I may dwell among them. 
 
 Beecher. 
 
 The Faith Once Delivered to the 
 Saints. 
 
 Jude 3. Behold, when I gave all diligence 
 to write unto you of the common salvation, 
 it was needful for me to write unto you, 
 and exhort you that ye should earnestly 
 contend for the faith once delivered unto the 
 saints. 
 
ORDINATION. 243 
 
 Pres. Day. Declaring the Whole Counsel of 
 God. 
 
 Acts 20: 27. For I have not shunned to 
 declare unto you all the counsel of God. 
 
 J. Ha wes. To Commend the Truth to the Con- 
 science the Object of a Faithful 
 Minister. 
 
 2 Cor. 4: 2. But have renounced the hid- 
 den things of dishonesty, not walking in 
 craftiness, nor handling the word of God 
 deceitfully ; but by manifestation of the 
 truth commending ourselves to every man's 
 conscience in the sight of God. 
 
 J. Mitchell. Marks of a False Prophet. 
 
 Jer. 23: 17. They say still unto them that 
 despise me, the Lord hath said, Ye shall 
 have peace ; and they say unto every one 
 that walketh after the imagination of his 
 own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 
 
 L. Woods. Importance of a Minister's Reputa- 
 tion. 
 
 Eccl. 7: 1. A good name is better than 
 precious ointment ; and the day of death 
 than the day of one's birth. 
 
 Schauffler. Fastidious Hearers. 
 
 Num. 21: 5. Our soul loatheth this light 
 bread. 
 
244 ORDINATION. 
 
 Pres. Day. The Christian Preacher's Commis- 
 sion. 
 
 Ezek. 33: 7. So thou, O son of man, I 
 have set thee a watchman unto the house of 
 Israel ; therefore thou shalt hear the word 
 at my mouth, and warn them from me. 
 
 Contending for the Faith. 
 
 Jude 3. 
 
 J. Woodbridge. The Devoted Pastor. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 15. Meditate upon these things 
 give thyself wholly to them. 
 
 Pres. Humphrey. The Christian Pastor. 
 
 Eph. 4: 11. And he gave some— pastors 
 and teachers. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Watchman's Duty and 
 Account. 
 
 Heb. 13: 17. Obey them that have the rule 
 over you, and submit yourselves j for they 
 watch for your souls, as they that must 
 give account, that they may do it with joy, 
 and not with grief: for that is unprofitable 
 for you. 
 
 Ministers are to Obey God rather 
 
 than Men. 
 
 Acts 4: 19. Whether it be right in the 
 sight of God to hearken unto you more 
 than unto God, judge ye. 
 
DEDICATION AND CONSECRATION. 
 
 245 
 
 L. Woods. The Great Encouragement to Min- 
 isterial Effort. 
 
 1 Cor. 3: 7. So then neither is he that 
 planteth any thing, neither he that water- 
 eth, but God that giveth the increase. 
 
 DEDICATION AND CONSECRATION. 
 
 R. Hall. On Candour and Liberality as 
 evinced in Promoting the Erec- 
 tion of Places of Worship. 
 
 Luke 7: 5. For he loveth our nation, and 
 he hath built us a synagogue. 
 
 R. Hall. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 The Heavenly Temple. 
 
 Rev. 21: 22. And I saw no temple therein : 
 for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb 
 are the temple of it. 
 
 Christ's Presence the Glory of his 
 
 Temple. 
 
 Hag. 2: 9. The glory of this latter house 
 shall be greater than of the former, saith the 
 Lobd of hosts. 
 
 Lathrop. The Presence of God in Holy Places. 
 
 1 Kings 8: 27. But will God indeed dwell 
 on the earth 1 behold, the heaven and heaven 
 of heavens cannot contain thee : how much 
 less this house that I have builded 1 
 
246 DEDICATION. 
 
 Livingston. Sanctuary Blessings. 
 
 Ex. 20: 24. In all places where I record 
 my name I will come unto thee, and I will 
 bless thee. 
 
 Massilon. Respect in the Temples of God. 
 
 Mat. 21: 12. And Jesus went into the tem- 
 ple of God, and cast out all them that sold 
 and bought in the temple, and overthrew 
 the tables of the moneychangers, and the 
 seats of them that sold doves. 
 
 L. F. Dimmick. The Influence of Truth. 
 
 John 17: 17. Sanctify them through thy 
 truth j thy word is truth. 
 
 L. Griggs. The Triumphs of the Gospel. 
 
 Haggai 2: 9. The glory of this latter house 
 shall be greater than of the former, saith the 
 Lord of hosts ; and in this place will I give 
 peace, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
 Nature and Means of Ecclesiastical 
 Prosperity. 
 
 Importance of the Sanctuary. 
 
 Ps. 46: 4. There is a river, the streams 
 whereof shall make glad the city of God, 
 the holy place of the tabernacles of the 
 Most High. 
 
 Beecher. The Design, Rights and Duties of 
 Local Churches. 
 1 Tim. 3: 14, 15. These things write I 
 
FUNERAL. 247 
 
 unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly : 
 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know- 
 how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the 
 house of God, which is the church of the 
 living God, the pillar and ground of the 
 truth. 
 
 Read. The Sacredness of the Sanctuary. 
 
 Gen. 28: 17. How dreadful iff this place! 
 this it none other but the house of God, 
 and this is the gate of heaven. 
 
 T. S. Clarke. The Pulpit worth more than it 
 Costs. 
 Mat. 26: 8. To what purpose is this waste 1 
 
 Pres. Humphrey. The Lord our Help. 
 
 1 Sam. 7: 12. Hitherto the Lord hath 
 helped us. 
 
 Leighton. The Divine Glory of Zion. 
 Isa. 28: 5, 6. 
 
 SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO FUNERAL. 
 
 Jay. The Saviour Comforting his Disci- 
 
 ples. 
 John 14: 2, 3. 
 
248 FUNERAL. 
 
 Jay. The Bereaved Christian Parent. 
 
 2 Sam. 12: 22, 23. And he said, While the 
 child was yet alive, I fasted and wept : for 
 I said, Who can tell whether God will be 
 gracious to me, that the child may live % 
 But now he is dead, wherefore should I 
 fast 1 can I bring him back again % I shall 
 go to him, but he shall not return to me. 
 
 Jay. Divine Correction. 
 
 Heb. 12: 9, 10. 
 
 Jay. God the Sanctuary of the Afflicted. 
 
 Ezek. 11: 16. Therefore say, Thus saith 
 the Lord God ; Although I have cast them 
 far off among the heathen, and although I 
 have scattered them among the countries, 
 yet will 1 be to them as a little sanctuary 
 in the countries where they shall come. 
 
 Jay. The Hand of God in Afflictions. 
 
 Job 9: 12. Behold, he taketh away, who 
 can hinder him 1 who will say unto him, 
 what doest thou 1 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. Consolation in the 
 Loss of Pious Friends. 
 1 Thess. 4: 13, 14. 
 
 Saurin. The Voice of the Rod. 
 
 Micah 6: 9. The Lord's voice crieth unto 
 
FUNERAL. 249 
 
 the city, and the man of wisdom shall see 
 thy name : hear ye the rod, and who hath 
 appointed it. 
 
 J. Matthews. The Benefit of Afflictions. 
 
 Heb. 12: 10. For they verily for a few days 
 chastened us after their own pleasure ,* but 
 he for our profit, that we might be parta- 
 kers of his holiness. 
 
 B. Dickinson. The Day of Pentecost. 
 
 Acts 2: 1. And when the day of Pentecost 
 was fully come, they were all with one ac- 
 cord in one place. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Blessedness of the Dead who 
 
 Die in the Lord. 
 
 Rev. 14: 13. And I heard a voice from 
 heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are 
 the dead which die in the Lord from hence- 
 forth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
 rest from their labours ; and their works do 
 follow them. 
 
 A. Fuller. Chastisement resulting in Repent- 
 ance. 
 
 Jer. 31: 18. Thou hast chastised me, and 
 I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed 
 to the yoke : turn thou me, and I shall be 
 turned : for thou art the Lord my God. 
 
 A. Fuller. The End for which God suffers his 
 People to be Afflicted. 
 1 Pet. 1: 6, 7. 
 
 22 
 
250 FUNEKAL. 
 
 A. Fuller. The Dying Christian's Reflections. 
 
 2 Tim. 4: 7, 8. 
 
 The Christian's Experience in Af- 
 fliction. 
 2 Cor. 17, 18. 
 
 Reflections on Death. 
 
 Gen. 3: 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt 
 thou eat bread, till thou return unto th« 
 ground ; for out of it wast thou taken : for 
 dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
 return. 
 
 A. Lee. Departed Saints, Fellow-Servants 
 with those on Earth. 
 Rev. 29: 9. 
 
 Lathrop. The Good Man Useful in Life and 
 
 Happy in Death. 
 
 Ps. 37: 37. Mark the perfect man, and be- 
 hold the upright : for the end of that man 
 is peace. 
 
 Lathrop. Parting with Friends a painful Trial. 
 
 Ps. 88: 18. Lover and friend hast'thou put 
 far from me, and mine acquaintance into 
 darkness. 
 
 Lathrop. The Death of the Young Lamented 
 
 and Improved. 
 
 Job 14: 19. And thou destroyest the hope 
 of man. 
 
FUNERAL. 
 
 251 
 
 Lathrop. Ezekiel's Affliction in the Death of 
 his Wife, and his Behaviour under 
 it. 
 
 Ezek. 24: 18. So I spake unto the people 
 in the morning : and at even my wife died ; 
 and I did in the morning as I was com- 
 manded. 
 
 Lathrop. Words of Comfort to the Afflicted. 
 
 1 Thess. 4: IS. Wherefore comfort one 
 another with these words. 
 
 Lathrop. God's Kindness in the Severest Af- 
 flictions. 
 Deut. 32: 11, 12. 
 
 Rennell. Sting of Death, Strength of Sin, and 
 Victory over Both. 
 1 Cor. 15: 56, 57. 
 
 Horne. Purification of the Mind by Trouble. 
 
 Job 23: 10. But he knoweth the way that 
 
 I take : when he hath 
 come forth as gold. 
 
 tried me, I shall 
 
 Horne. Happy Issue of Sanctified Afflictions. 
 
 Ps. 119: 67. Before I was afflicted I went 
 astray : but now have I kept thy word. 
 
252 
 Buist. 
 
 Buist. 
 
 FUNERAL. 
 
 The Death of the Saints. 
 
 Ps. 116: 15. Precious in the sight of the 
 Lord is the death of his saints. 
 
 The Righteous in Remembrance. 
 
 Ps. 112: 6. The righteous shall be had in 
 everlasting remembrance. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Sorrows of the Bereaved 
 
 Spread before Jesus. 
 
 Mat. 14: 12. And his disciples came, and 
 took up the body, and buried it, and went 
 and told Jesus. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. A Strong Rod Broken and 
 Withered. 
 
 Ezek. 19: 12. But she was plucked up in 
 fury, she was cast down to the ground, and 
 the east wind dried up her fruit : her strong 
 rods were broken and withered : the fire 
 consumed them. 
 
 Massilon. On Death. 
 
 Luke 7: 12. Now, when he came nigh to 
 the gate of the city, behold, there was a 
 dead man carried out, the only son of his 
 mother, and she was a widow : and much 
 people of the city was with her. 
 
 Massilon. The Death of a Sinner and of a 
 Saint compared. 
 Rev. U: 13. 
 
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 253 
 
 White. 
 
 Gillett. 
 
 The Memory of the Just. 
 
 Prov. 10: 7. The memory of the just is 
 blessed. 
 
 Death the Christian's Gain. 
 
 Phil. 1: 21. For me to live is Christ, and 
 to die is gain. 
 
 Trumbull. The Character, Glorious Prospect, 
 and Triumph of a Faithful Min- 
 ister at the Close of Life. 
 2 Tim. 4: 6-8. 
 
 Pres. Humphrey. The Good Arimathean. 
 
 Luke 23: 50. And behold, there was a man 
 named Joseph, a counsellor : and he was a 
 good man, and a just. 
 
 Leighton. The Docile Sufferer. 
 
 Job 34: 31, 32. Surely it is meet to be said 
 unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will 
 not offend any more : that which I see not 
 teach thou me : if I have done iniquity, I 
 will do no more. 
 
 Leighton. Hope amidst Billows. 
 
 Ps. 42: 8. Yet the Lord will command his 
 loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the 
 night his song shall be with me, and my 
 prayer unto the God of my life. 
 
 22* 
 
SUBJECTS RELATING TO TEMPERANCE. 
 
 Beecher. The Nature and Occasions of Intem- 
 perance. 
 
 Prov. 23: 29-35. 
 
 Beecher. The Signs of Intemperance. 
 (Same Text.) 
 
 The Evils of Intemperance. 
 Hab. 2: 9-11, 15, 16. 
 
 Beecher. The Remedy for Intemperance. 
 
 (Same Text.) 
 
 B. Dickinson. Alarm to Distillers and their 
 Allies. 
 
 Eccl. 7: 29. Lo, this only have I found, 
 that God hath made man upright ; but they 
 have sought out many inventions. 
 
 A. Dickinson. Call to Christians on Temper- 
 ance. 
 
 James 4: 17. Therefore to him that kno wr- 
 oth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it 
 is sin. 
 
TEMPERANCE. 
 
 255 
 
 E. Hitchcock. Nature of Intemperance in Eat- 
 ing. 
 
 Jucle 12. Feeding themselves without fear. 
 
 E. Hitchcock. Consequences of Intemperance 
 
 in Eating. 
 
 Prov. 23: 2. And put a knife to thy throat, 
 if thou be a man given to appetite. 
 
 Andrew. 
 
 The Question, Whether it is Right 
 to use Intoxicating Drinks at the 
 Present Day, Tried and Settled. 
 
 2 Cor. 5: 10. For we must all appear be- 
 fore the judgment seat of Christ ; that 
 every one may receive the things done in 
 his body, according to that he hath done, 
 whether it be good or bad. 
 
 Downer. Intemperance the Great Destroyer. 
 
 Ex. 20: 13. Thou shalt not kill 
 
SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE TO THE CAUSE OF 
 BENEVOLENCE. 
 
 Jay. Ps. 72: 19. And let the whole earth be 
 
 filled with his glory ; Amen, and Amen. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. More Labourers want- 
 ed for the Harvest. 
 
 Mat. 9: 37. The harvest truly is plenteous, 
 but the labourers are few. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Missionary Cha- 
 racter and Duty of the Church. 
 Mat. 5: 14. Ye are the light of the world. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Missionary Ar- 
 gument. 
 
 Mark 16: 15. Go ye into all the world, and 
 preach the gospel to every creature. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Missionary Spi- 
 rit. 
 
 Rom. 12: 5. So we being many, are one 
 body, in Christ, and every one members 
 one of another. 
 
 McIlvaine's Collection. The Duty of Chris- 
 tians to Give Freely. 
 
 Mat. 10: 8. Freely have ye received, freely 
 give. 
 
BENEVOLENCE. 257 
 
 Griffin. Duty of Sending the Gospel to the 
 Heathen. 
 Mat. 28: 18-20. 
 
 L. Beecher. Resources of the Adversary, and 
 
 the Means of their Destruction. 
 
 Isa 49: 24, 25, and 53: 12. Luke 11: 21, 22. 
 Rev. 11: 15, and 19: 5, 6. 
 
 A. Dickinson. Scriptural Measure of Benevo- 
 lent Effort. 
 
 Heb. 13: 16. But to do good and to com- 
 municate forget not : for with such sacri- 
 fices God is well pleased. 
 
 A. Alexander. Objections Obviated, and God 
 
 Glorified by the Success of the 
 
 Gospel among the Heathen. 
 
 Acts 11: 18. When they heard these 
 things, they held their peace, and glorified 
 God, saying, Then hath God also to the 
 Gentiles granted repentance unto life. 
 
 W. C. Walton. Necessary Preparation for the 
 
 Millennium. 
 
 Isa. 62: 6, 7. I have set watchmen upon 
 thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never 
 hold their peace day nor night : ye that make 
 mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and 
 give him no rest, till he establish, and till 
 he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 
 
258 BENEVOLENCE. 
 
 Woods. Hinderance& to the Spread of the 
 Gospel. 
 Isa. 61: 1, % 
 
 Signs of the Times. 
 
 Mat. 16: 3. Can ye not discern the signs 
 of the times 1 
 
 W. Allen. Freedom Conferred by the Gospel. 
 
 John 8: 36. If the Son shall make you free, 
 ye shall be free indeed* 
 
 McDowell. The Gospel Harvest, and the 
 Christian's Duty. 
 Mat. 9: 37, 38. 
 
 S. Miller. The Earth filled with the Glory of 
 
 the Lord. 
 
 Num. 14: 20, 21. And the Lord said, I 
 have pardoned according to thy word : but 
 as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled 
 with the glory of the Lord. 
 
 D. Abeel. Happy Influence of Foreign Mis- 
 sions on the Church. 
 
 Isa. 54: 2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, 
 and let them stretch forth the curtains of 
 thine habitations : spare not, lengthen thy 
 cords, and strengthen thy stakes. 
 
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 E. Payson. Messiah's Victory Predicted and 
 Desired. 
 Ps. 45: 3-5. 
 
 C. Lee. The Condemnation of the Heathen. 
 
 Rom. 1: 32. Who knowing the judgment 
 of God, that they which commit such things 
 are worthy of death, not only do the same, 
 but have pleasure in them that do them. 
 
 C. Lee. The Light of Nature Ineffectual. 
 
 Rom. 1: 21. Because that, when they knew 
 God, they glorified him not as God, neither 
 were thankful ; but became vain in their 
 imaginations, and their foolish heart was 
 darkened. 
 
 R. Hall. The Success of Missions depends 
 upon the Agency of the Spirit 
 Isa. 32: 13-15. 
 
 R. Hall. The Enlargement of Christian Be- 
 nevolence. 
 
 2 Cor. 6: 13. Now for a recompense in the 
 same (I speak as unto my children,) be ye 
 also enlarged. 
 
 R. Hall. Evils of Idolatry, and means of its 
 
 Abolition. 
 
 Isa. 2: 18. And the idols he shall utterly 
 abolish. 
 
260 
 Simeon 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 BENEVOLENCE. 
 
 Restoration of the Jews. 
 
 Hos. 3: 5. Afterward shall the children of 
 Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, 
 and David their king ; and shall fear the 
 Lord and his goodness in the latter days. 
 
 The Conversion of the Gentiles. 
 Zech. 8: 20, 23. 
 
 Charity Enforced. 
 Deut. 15: 7-11. 
 
 The Extent and Certainty of Israel's 
 
 Salvation. 
 
 Isa. 45: 17. But Israel shall be saved in 
 the Lord with an everlasting salvation : ye 
 shall not be ashamed nor confounded worid 
 without end. 
 
 The Apostles' Commission. 
 Mat. 28: 18-20. 
 
 The Impiety of offering to God that 
 
 which costs us nothing. 
 
 2 Sam. 24: 24. And the king said unto 
 Araunah, Nay, but I will surely buy it of 
 thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt 
 offerings unto the Lord my God of that 
 which doth cost me nothing. 
 
 Nothing to be Refused when the 
 
 Lord hath Need. 
 Mark 11: 3. And if any man say unto you, 
 
BENEVOLENCE. 
 
 261 
 
 Why do ye this 1 say ye that the Lord hath 
 need of him ; and straightway he will send 
 him hither. 
 
 E. T. Fitch. Liberal Christians Helpers to the 
 
 Truth. 
 
 3 John 8. We therefore ought to receive 
 such, that we might be fellow-helpers to 
 the truth. 
 
 Mason. Hope for the Heathen. 
 
 Isa. 25: 6, 7. 
 
 The Claims of Seamen. 
 Mat. 4: 18-21. 
 
 Schmucker. A Plea for the Sabbath School 
 System. 
 Prov. 14: 34. Righteousness exalteth a 
 
 nation. 
 
 Spring. 
 
 The Will of God Performed on 
 
 Earth. 
 
 Mat. 6: 10. Thy will be done on earth as 
 it is in heaven. 
 
 Robbins. The Dominions of this World made 
 Subservient to the Kingdom of 
 Christ. 
 Dan. 2: 44. And in the days of these kings 
 23 
 
262 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, 
 which shall never be destroyed: and the 
 kingdom shall not be left to other people, 
 but it shall break in pieces and consume all 
 these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 
 
 Winslow. The Prospects of Christianity. 
 Dan. 7: 13: 14. 
 
 On Doing Good to the Poor. 
 
 Mark 14: 7. For ye have the poor with you 
 always, and whensoever ye will ye may do 
 them good : but me ye have not always. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. 
 
 Pres. Appleton. The Young Warned and Re- 
 proved. 
 Eccl. 11: 9. 
 
 Pres. Appleton. War and Peace. 
 
 Ps. 72: 7. In his days shall the righteous 
 flourish ; and abundance of peace so long as 
 the moon endureth. 
 
 Pres. Appleton. True Sources of National 
 
 Prosperity. 
 
 Isa. 33: 6. And wisdom and knowledge 
 shall be the stability of thy times, and 
 strength of salvation : the fear of the 
 Load is his treasure. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 263 
 
 Pres. Appleton. Means of Perpetuating the 
 Blessings of Christianity. 
 
 Isa. 59: 21. 
 
 Pres. Appleton. Times and Seasons Reserved 
 
 in the Father's own Power. 
 
 Acts 1: 7. And he said unto them, It is 
 not for you to know the times or the sea- 
 sons, which the Father hath put in his own 
 power. 
 
 Howe. Jerusalem Rebuilt in Troublous 
 Times. 
 
 Dan. 9: 25. The street shall be built, and 
 the wall, in troublous times. 
 
 Jay. Returning from a Journey. 
 
 Job 5: 24. And thou shalt know that thy 
 tabernacle shall be in peace ; and thou shalt 
 visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. 
 
 Jay. Spring. 
 
 Ps. 104: 30. Thou renewest the face of 
 the year. 
 Cant. 2: 11, 12. 
 
 Jay. Summer and Harvest. 
 
 Prov: 10: 5. 
 
 Jay. Autumn. 
 
 Isa. 64: 6. We all do fade as a leaf. 
 
264 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 Winter. 
 
 
 Ps. 74: 17. Thou hast made winter. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 The Tree of Life. 
 
 
 Rev. 22: 2. 
 
 Jay. 
 
 The Youth's Guide. 
 
 
 Jer. 3: 4. Wilt thou not from this time 
 cry unto me, Thou art the guide of my 
 youth % 
 
 JaY. Sickness Improved. 
 
 Mat. 9: 1-7. The Paralytic healed. 
 
 Jay. Blessings Unimproved resumed by 
 
 their Owner. 
 Hos. 2: 8, 9, 
 
 Jay. The Death of Death. 
 
 2 Tim. 1: 10. Our Saviour Jesus Christ, 
 who hath abolished death. 
 
 Jay. The Two Intercessors. 
 
 Heb. 7: 25. He ever liveth to make inter- 
 cession for them. 
 
 Rev. 8: 27. The Spirit itself maketh inter- 
 cession for us. 
 
 Jay. The Young Admonished. 
 
 1 Kings 18: 12. I fear the Lord from my 
 youth, 
 
Saurin. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 265 
 
 Saurin. Christianity not Seditious. 
 
 Luke 23: 5. He stirreth up the people. 
 
 The Superior Evidence and Influ- 
 ence of Christianity. 
 1 John 4: 4. 
 
 Saurin. The Absurdity of Libertinism and 
 Infidelity. 
 
 Ps. 94: 7, 8. 
 
 Saurin. The Harmony of Religion and Civil 
 
 Polity. 
 
 Prov. 14: 34. Righteousness exalteth a 
 nation* 
 
 Saurin. The Fatal Consequences of a Bad 
 Education. 
 
 1 Sam. 3: 13. For I have told him that I 
 will judge his house forever for the iniquity 
 which he knowethj because his sons made 
 themselves vile, and he restrained them not. 
 
 W. Patten. The Conversion of Cities. 
 
 Luke 24: 47. And that repentance and 
 remission of sins should be preached in his 
 name among all nations, beginning at Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 23* 
 
266 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 W. Fisk. The Final Dissolution of the World. 
 
 1 Pet. 4: 7. But the end of all things is at 
 hand : be ye therefore sober, and watch 
 unto prayer. 
 
 S. W. Cannon. The Guilt, Folly, and Preven- 
 
 N. S. Beman. tives of being in Debt. 
 
 Rom. 13: 8. Owe no man any thing, but to 
 love one another. 
 
 T. De Witt. The Wisdom and Beauty of 
 
 J. Abbot. Youthful Piety. 
 
 Prov. 8: 16, 17. I love them that love me ; 
 and those that seek me early shall find me. 
 1 Sam. 3: 19. And Samuel grew, and the 
 Lord was with him, and did let none of his 
 words fall to the ground. 
 
 A. Edson. The Early Conversion of Children. 
 
 Mark 10: 14. Suffer the little children to 
 come unto me, and forbid them not : for of 
 such is the kingdom of God. 
 
 S. H. Tyng. Old Age without Religion. 
 
 Jer. 6: 4. Wo unto us ! for the day goetk 
 away, for the shadows of the evening are 
 stretched out. 
 
 S. Chapin. Peculiar Responsibilities of Young 
 
 Men. 
 
 1 John 2: 14. I have written unto you, 
 young men. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 267 
 
 A. Barnes. The Supremacy of the Laws. 
 Eom. 13: 1-7. 
 
 M. W. Dwight. The Guilt and Danger of Read- 
 ing Infidel, Fictitious and Impure 
 Works. 
 
 Acts 19: 19, 20. 
 
 The Apostolic Benediction. 
 
 2 Cor. 13: 11. Finally, bret 
 Be perfect, be of good com 
 mind, live in peace ; and th< 
 and peace shall be with you. 
 
 2 Cor. 13: 11. Finally, brethren, farewell. 
 Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one 
 mind, live in peace ; and the God of love 
 
 Smalley. Evils of a Weak Government. 
 Isa. 3: 4, 5. 
 
 Harmony of Faith and Works. 
 
 Rom. 3: 28-31. Therefore we conclude 
 that a man is justified by faith without the 
 deeds of the law. Do we then make void 
 the law through faith 1 God forbid : yea, 
 we establish the law, 
 
 R. Hall. Personality and Real Existence of 
 
 Satan. 
 
 Mat. 4: 1. Then was Jesus led up of the 
 spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of 
 the devil. 
 
 R. Hall. Existence and Office of Angels. 
 
 Heb. 1: 14. Are they not all ministering 
 
268 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 Simeon. 
 
 spirits, sent forth to minister for them who 
 shall be heirs of salvation 1 
 
 R. Hall. The Last Enemy that shall be De- 
 stroyed. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 26, The last enemy that shall 
 be destroyed is death. 
 
 The Final Judgment represented by 
 
 the Harvest. 
 
 Joel 3: 13. Put ye in the sickle, for the har- 
 vest is ripe. 
 
 Satan's Malice Defeated, 
 1 Pet. 5: 8, 9. 
 
 How the Salvation of all Men is 
 
 agreeable to the Will of God, 
 
 while a Part only are Saved. 
 
 1 Tim. 2: 4. Who will have all men to be 
 saved, and to come unto the knowledge of 
 the truth. 
 
 Smallev. Infants Capable of being Saved by 
 the Renewing of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Mark 10: 14, 15. But when Jesus saw«V, 
 he was much displeased, and said unto 
 them, Verily I say unto you, Whosoever 
 shall not receive the kingdom of God as a 
 little child, he shall not enter therein. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 269 
 
 Dana. Religious Education. 
 
 Deut. 6: 7. And thou shalt teach them 
 diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk 
 of them when thou sittest in thine house, 
 and when thou walkest by the way, and when 
 thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 
 
 McWhorter. How Youth may become Holy 
 and Happy. 
 
 Ps. 1 19: 9. Wherewithal shall a young man 
 cleanse his way 1 by taking heed thereto 
 according to thy word. 
 
 Lathrop. Religion Essentially Included in the 
 Love of our Country. 
 
 Luke 7: 4, 5. And when they came to Je- 
 sus, they besought him instantly, saying, 
 That he was worthy for whom he should 
 do this ; for he loveth our nation, and he 
 hath built us a synagogue. 
 
 Lathrop. The Infamous Character of the 
 Churl. 
 1 Sam. 25: 2, 3. 
 
 Lathrop. Micah's Confidence and Disappoint- 
 ment in his Priest. 
 
 Judges 17: 13, Then said Micah, Now 
 know I that the Lord will do me good, see- 
 ing I have a Levite to my priest. 
 
270 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Lathrop. Different Effects of a Similar Edu- 
 cation illustrated in Herod and 
 Manaen. 
 Acts 13: 1. 
 
 Lathrop. Renovation of all things. 
 
 Rev. 21: 5. And he that sat upon the throne 
 said, Behold, I make all things new. 
 
 Lathrop. Reflections on the Story of the Eu- 
 nuch. 
 
 Acts 8: 39. And when they were come 
 up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord 
 caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw 
 him no more : and he went on his way re- 
 joicing. 
 
 Lathrop. Joseph Disclosing himself to his 
 
 Brethren. 
 
 Gen. 45: 3. And Joseph said unto his 
 brethren, I am Joseph ; doth my father yet 
 live 1 And his brethren could not answer 
 him ; for they were troubled at his pres- 
 ence. 
 
 Lathrop. Children Exhorted to Fear God. 
 
 Ps. 34: 11. Come, ye children, hearken 
 unto me : I will teach you the fear of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Lathrop. Duty of Speaking to the Young. 
 
 Zech. 2: 4. Run and speak to that young 
 man. 
 
Lathrop, 
 
 Lathrop. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 271 
 
 Early Piety the Comfort of Old Age. 
 
 Ps. 71: 5. For thou art my hope, O Lord 
 God : thou art my trust from my youth. 
 
 Infirmities and Comforts of Old Age. 
 
 Ps. 71: 9. Cast me not off in the time of 
 old age j forsake me not when my strength 
 faileth. 
 
 Lathrop. Pilate's Inscription on the Cross. 
 John 19: 19-22. 
 
 Lathrop. Nature and Design of a Christian 
 Church. 
 1 Cor. 1: 2. 
 
 Lathrop. Dangers of the Times from Infidelity 
 
 and Immorality. 
 
 Kev. 12: 12. Wo to the inhabiters of the 
 earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come 
 down unto you, having great wrath, because 
 he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 
 
 Lathrop. God's Mercies Recollected in his 
 
 Temple. (On leaving an old 
 
 place of worship.) 
 
 Ps. 48: 9. We have thought of thy loving- 
 kindness, O God, in the midst of thy tem- 
 ple. 
 
272 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Lathrop. The Atrocity of Suicide. 
 
 Acts 16: 26. Do thyself no harm. 
 
 Lathrop. Illustrations and Reflections on 
 Saul's Consulting the Witch of 
 Endor. 
 1 Sam. 28: 6, 7. 
 
 Lathrop. An Aged Minister Commending his 
 People to God. 
 Acts 20: 32. 
 
 Lathrop. Female Influence in Religion. 
 
 Acts 16: 13. And on the sabbath we went 
 out of the city by a river side, where prayer 
 was wont to be made ; and we sat down, 
 and spake unto the women which resorted 
 thither. 
 
 Lathrop. Waiting on God for Rain. 
 
 Jer. 14: 22. 
 
 Lathrop. Old Age Improved. 
 
 2 Sam. 19: 35. I am this day fourscore 
 years old : and can I discern between good 
 and evil % can thy servant taste what I eat 
 or what I drink % 
 
 Lathrop. A Christian Family Helping their 
 Minister. 
 Rom. 16: 3-5. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 273 
 
 Lathrop. Necessity of Early Religion. 
 
 Eccl. 12: 1. Remember now thy Creator 
 in the days of thy youth, while the evil 
 days come not, nor the years draw nigh, 
 when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in 
 them. 
 
 Lathrop. The Youth Assisted in forming his 
 Religious Sentiments. 
 Prov. 2: 10^12. 
 
 Lathrop. Reflections on Abraham's Artifice 
 with Abimelech. 
 Gen. 20: 10, 11. 
 
 Lathrop. Reflections on Harvest. 
 
 Jer. 5: 24. Neither say they in their 
 heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, 
 that giveth rain, both the former and the 
 latter, in his season : he reserveth unto us 
 the appointed weeks of > the harvest. 
 
 Lathrop. Ministry of Angels. 
 
 Heb. 1: 14. Are they not all ministering 
 spirits, sent forth to minister for them who 
 shall be heirs of salvation l 
 
 Lathrop. Dangers of Youth. 
 
 Prov. 7: 7. And beheld among the simple 
 ones, I discerned among the youths, a young 
 man void of understanding. 
 24 
 
274 
 
 Dehon. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 HORNE. 
 
 HORNE. 
 
 Strong. 
 
 Christian Education of Children. 
 
 Ex. 2: 9. Take this child away, and nurse 
 it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. 
 
 Horne. Considerations on the Sea. 
 
 Ps. 95: 5. The sea is his, and he made it. 
 
 Horne. Submission to Government. 
 1 Peter 2: 13, 14. 
 
 Providence Manifested in the Rise 
 
 and Fall of Empires. 
 
 1 Sam. 2: 30. Them that honour me I will 
 honour, and they that despise me shall be 
 lightly esteemed. 
 
 Antiquity/Use, and Excellence of 
 Church Music. 
 
 Ps. 5?: 8. Awake up, my glory, awake, 
 psaltery and harp: I myself will awake 
 early. 
 
 On Shutting up the Kingdom of 
 
 Heaven. 
 Mat. 23: 13. 
 
 Rennell. The Consequences of Gaming. 
 
 Heb. 12: 1. The sin which so easily besets 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 275 
 
 Rennell. Moses' Prayer. 
 
 Ex. 33: 15. And he said unto him, If thy 
 presence go not with me, carry us not up 
 hence. 
 
 Pulpit Sketches. Mary at the Sepulchre. 
 
 John 20: 11. But Mary stood without at 
 the sepulchre weeping : and as she wept, 
 she stooped down, and looked into the sep- 
 ulchre. 
 
 American Preacher. The Virtuous Woman. 
 
 Prov. 31: 29. Many daughters have done 
 virtuously, hut thou excellest them all. 
 
 American Preacher. The Test of Revivals. 
 Acts 5: 38, 39. 
 
 American Preacher. On Duelling. 
 
 Mat. 26: 52. Put up thy sword. 
 
 L. Beecher. Remedy for Duelling. 
 
 Burder. A New Heart the Child's Best Por- 
 tion. 
 Ezek. 36: 26. 
 
 Burder. Onesimus : or the Profitable Ser- 
 vant. 
 
 Philemon 10, 11. 
 
276 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Burder. Baptism not Regeneration. 
 
 John 1: 13. Which were born, not of 
 blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of 
 the will of man, but of God. 
 
 Burder. Samson's Riddle. 
 Judges 14: 14. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On Revivals of Religion. 
 
 Isa. 60: 8. Who are these that fly as a 
 cloud, and as the doves to their windows 1 
 
 Pres. Dwight. On the Duties Connected with 
 a Professional Life. 
 Prov. 4: 20-27. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Nature and Danger of Infidel 
 Philosophy. 
 Col. 2: 8. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Young Exhorted to So- 
 briety of Mind. 
 
 Titus 2: 6. Young men likewise exhort to 
 be sober-minded. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Youth of Nain. 
 Luke 7: 11-15. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Considerations in Adversity. 
 
 Eccl. 7: 14. In the day of adversity- 
 consider. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 277 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Long life not Desirable. 
 
 Job 7r 16. I would not live alway. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Final Interview. 
 
 Eccl. 12: 7. Then shall the dust return to 
 the earth as it* was: and the spirit shall re- 
 turn unto God who gave it. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Danger of Frequenting 
 Evil Company. 
 
 Prov. 13: 20. He that walketh with wise 
 men shall be wise : but a companion of 
 fools shall be destroyed. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Considerations on the Final 
 
 Trial. 
 
 Eccl. 12: 14. For God shall bring every 
 work into judgment, with every secret 
 thing, whether it be good, or whether it be 
 evil. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. The Disappointments at the 
 Judgment. 
 
 Luke 13: 28-30. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Character of Noah. 
 
 2 Peter 2: 5. And spared not the old 
 world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a 
 preacher of righteousness, bringing in the 
 flood upon the world of the ungodly.. 
 
 Pres. Dwight. Paul before Felix. 
 
 Acts 24 : 25. 
 
 24* 
 
278 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Seven Abominations. 
 Prov. 6: 16-19. 
 
 Chalmers. On the Mercantile Virtues which 
 may exist without the Influence 
 of Christianity. 
 Phil. 4: 8. 
 
 Chalmers. Influence of Christianity in Aiding 
 
 the Mercantile Virtues. 
 
 Rom. 14: 8. Owe no man anything, but to 
 love one another : for he that loveth ano- 
 ther hath fulfilled the law. 
 
 Chalmers. The Power of Selfishness in Pro- 
 moting the Honesties of Mercan- 
 tile Intercourse. 
 
 Luke 6: 33. And if ye do good to them 
 which do good to you, what thank have 
 ye 1 for sinners also do even the same. 
 
 Chalmers. The Guilt of Dishonesty not to be 
 estimated by the Gain of it. 
 
 Luke 16: 10. He that is faithful in that 
 which is least, is faithful also in much ; and 
 he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also 
 in much. 
 
 Chalmers. The Great Christian Law of Reci- 
 procity between Man and Man. 
 
 7: 12. 
 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 279 
 
 Chalmers. The Dissipation of Large Cities. 
 
 Erh. 5: 6. 
 
 Chalmers. The Vitiating Influence of the High- 
 er on the Lower Orders of So- 
 ciety. 
 
 Luke 17: 1, 2. 
 
 Chalmers. On the Love of Money. 
 
 Job 31: 24-28. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. Dishonesty. 
 
 Ex. 20: 15. Thou shalt not steal. 
 
 Pres. Edwards. The Nature and End of Ex- 
 communication. 
 1 Cor. 5: 11. 
 
 Massilon. On the Resurrection of Lazarus. 
 John 11: 34. Come and see. 
 
 Massilon. On the Day of Judgment. 
 
 Luke 21: 27. Then shall they see the Son 
 of man coming in a cloud, with power and 
 great glory. 
 
 Schauffler. The Pious Man Happy in his Suf- 
 ferings. 
 Luke 23: 28. Weep not for me. 
 
280 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 L. Withington. Puritan Morals Defended. 
 
 Acts 28: 22. But we desire to hear of 
 thee, what thou thinkest : for as concern- 
 ing this sect, we know that everywhere it 
 is spoken against. 
 
 Mason. 
 
 Divine Judgments. 
 
 Habakkuk 3: 2. O Lord — in wrath remem- 
 ber mercy. 
 
 Mason. 
 
 Mason. 
 
 Mercy Remembered in Wrath. 
 
 Ps. 103: 10. He hath not dealt with us 
 after our sins; nor rewarded us according 
 to our iniquities. 
 
 True Honour. 
 
 John 5: 44. How can ye believe, which 
 receive honour one of another, and seek 
 not the honour that cometh from God only 1 
 
 A. Green. False Honour. 
 
 Mat. 14: 9. And the king was sorry : nev- 
 ertheless for the oath's sake, and them 
 which sat with him at meat, he commanded 
 
 it to be given her. 
 
 L. Beecher. A Reformation of Morals Prac- 
 ticable and Indispensable. 
 Ezek, 33: 10, 
 
 L. Beecher. The Building of Waste Places. 
 Isa. 61: 4. And they shall build the old 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 281 
 
 wastes, they shall raise up the former des- 
 olations, and they shall repair the waste 
 cities, the desolations of many generations. 
 
 L. Beecher. The Memory of our Fathers. 
 
 Rev. 21: 5. And he that sat upon the 
 throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 
 
 J. A. Root. Traditions of Men. 
 
 Mat. 15: 6. Thus have ye made the com- 
 mandment of God of none effect by your 
 tradition. 
 
 W. B. Sprague. Religious Ultraism. 
 
 Phil. 4: 5. Let your moderation be known 
 unto all men. 
 
 E. F. Hatfield. The Qualifications of Sabbath 
 School Teachers. 
 Heb. 5: 12. 
 
 B. Trumbull. The Dignity of Man, especially 
 as Displayed in Civil Government. 
 
 1 Kings 2: 2, 3. 
 
 E. Hall. Submission to Civil Authority. 
 1 Peter 2: 13-17. 
 
 Hawes. Fruitfulness in Old Age. 
 
 Ps. 92: 14. They shall still bring forth fruit 
 in old age. 
 
282 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 J. W. Yeomans. Family Salvation. 
 
 Gen. 7: 7. And Noah went in, and his 
 sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with 
 him, into the ark, because of the waters of 
 the flood. 
 
 E. F. Hatfield. The Claims of Sacred Music. 
 
 Ps. 98: 4-6. 
 
 H. Bushnell. American Politics. 
 
 John 19: 12. If thou let this man go, thou 
 art not Cesar's friend. 
 
 Pres. Humphrey. The Way to Save and Bless 
 
 our Country. 
 
 Prov. 22: 6. Train up a child in the way- 
 he should go, and when he is old he will 
 not depart from it. 
 
 Leigiiton. Grapes from Thorns. 
 
 Ps. 76; 10. Surely the wrath of man shall 
 praise thee : the remainder of wrath shalt 
 thou restrain. 
 
 J. Shepard. The Methods of the Adversary. 
 
 2 Cor. 4: 4. In whom the god of this world 
 hath blinded the minds of them which be- 
 lieve not, lest the light of the glorious gos- 
 pel of Christ, who is the image of God, 
 should shine unto them. 
 
 L. H. Atwater. The Causes of Superficial and 
 
 Transient Religious Experience. 
 
 Luke 8: 13. They on the rock are they, 
 which, when they hear, receive the word 
 with joy ; and these have no root, which 
 for a while believe, and in time of tempta- 
 tion fall away. 
 
SUBJECTS FROM JAY'S MORNING EXERCISES. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1. Reflections for the New Year 
 
 2. The Divine Assurance 
 
 3. The Cessation of the Manna . 
 
 4. Seasonable Strength 
 
 5. S elf-Renunciation 
 
 6. The Heart united to Religion 
 
 7. Epenetus .... 
 
 8. John's Friendship for Gaius 
 
 9. The perpetual Guide 
 
 10. The Character of Cornelius 
 
 11. The Dwelling-place of Jesus 
 
 12. God's regard to Israel's Weakness 
 
 13. Repentance flowing from Mercy 
 
 14. The Birthday 
 
 15. Spiritual devotion . 
 
 16. God's Thoughts . . - s . 
 
 17. The Use of the Law 
 
 18. Hope Exceeded 
 
 19. Noah's Walk .... 
 
 20. The Descending Dove 
 
 21. Moses apprized of his Death . 
 
 22. The Scriptures opened . -.■ i 
 
 23. The Spiritual Beggar . . : 
 
 24. The Blessed People 
 
 25. Joseph with his sick Father 
 
 26. Heavenly Preparation 
 
 27. The Healthful Inhabitant 
 
 28. The Tenderness of God's Care 
 
 29. The Unlonely Solitude . 
 
 30. The Lovely Household . 
 
 31. The Bitter Waters healed 
 
 1. Faith questioned 
 
 2. Creature Dissatisfaction 
 
 3. Important Recollection . 
 
 4. Jacob's Prayer 
 
 5. Union with Christ . 
 
 6. The Unlooked-for Companion 
 
 7. The Impotent Man Tried 
 
 8. Joseph in Prison 
 
 9. Exultation in God . 
 
 Exod. xl. 2. 
 Gen. xxxii. 12. 
 Josh. v. 12. 
 Deut. xxxiii. 25. 
 Rev. iv. 10. 
 Ps. lxxxvi. 11. 
 Rom. xvi. 5. 
 3 Epis. John 2. 
 Ps. xlviii. 14. 
 Acts x. 2. 
 John i. 36. 
 Exod. xiii. 17, 18. 
 Rom. ii. 4. 
 Gen. xl. 20. 
 Ps. xxv. 1. 
 Jer. xxix. 11. 
 Gal. iii. 24. 
 Gen. xlviii. 11. 
 Gen. vi. 9. 
 Luke iii. 22. 
 Num. xxvii. 12, 13. 
 i Luke xxiv. 32. 
 Luke xi. 9. 
 Ps. iii. 8. 
 Gen. xlviii. 1, 2. 
 2 Cor. v. 5. 
 Is. xxxiii. 24. 
 Deut. i. 31. 
 John xvi. 32. 
 Acts x. 7, 8. 
 Exod. xv. 25, 
 
 John xvi. 31. 
 Ps. Iv. 6. 
 Deut. xxiv. 18. 
 1 Gen. xxxii. 9-12. 
 1 Thess. v. 10. 
 Luke xxiv. 13-15. 
 John v. 8. 
 Gen. xxxix. 20. 
 Ps. xxxiv. 2. 
 
284 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 10. Sobriety .... 1 Thess. v. 8. 
 
 11. Children of the Day . . 1 Thess. v. 5. 
 
 12. Mutual Aid . . . . Num. x. 31. 
 
 13. The Plaintive Prayer . . Ps. xxv. 16, 17. 
 
 14. The Importance of Obedience John xv. 14. 
 
 15. The Real Miracle . . . Acts hi. 9, 10. 
 
 16. The Three Heroes . . . Dan. hi. 12. 
 
 17. The Joyful Servant . . Ps. lxxxvi. 6. 
 
 18. Paul wishing to see Rome . Rom. i. 10, 11. 
 
 19. Peter weeping . . . Mark xiv. 72. 
 
 20. Religious Growth . . . Mai. iv. 2. 
 
 21. The Discouraged Pilgrim . Num. xxi. 4. 
 
 22. Earthly Comforts Blessed . Exod. xxiii. 25. 
 33. Conversion of a Sinner . . James v. 20. 
 
 24. God's People glorified . . Zech. ix. 16. 
 
 25. Paul's Salutation of the Romans Rom. xvi. 15. 
 
 26. Jesus weeping over Jerusalem Luke xix. 41. 
 
 27. Divine Knowledge . . Col. i. 10. 
 
 28. The Love of Jesus to his own John xiii. 1. 
 
 Mar. 1. Desirable Fellowship . . Num. x. 32. 
 
 2. Peter following afar off . . Matt. xxvi. 58. 
 
 3. God only true . . . Rom. iii. 4. 
 
 4. The Saints in the Lord's Hand Deut. xxxiii. 3. 
 
 5. Flesh and Spirit . . . Rom. vii. 25. 
 
 6. The Heavenly Proposal . Deut. i. 21. 
 
 7. The Friends of Jesus . . John xv. 15. 
 
 8. Union of Hope and Fear . Ps. xxxiii. 18. 
 
 9. Strength in the Lord . . Eph. vi. 10. 
 
 10. Robbery of God . . . Mai. iii. 8. 
 
 11. Lovingkindnesses . -. .Is. lxiii. 7. 
 
 12. Mutual Service . . . Gal. v. 13. 
 
 13. Fear forbidden . . . Deut. xx. 1. 
 
 14. Paul's Desire . . . Phil. iii. 8. 
 
 15. The Highest Prize . . Phil. iii. 8. 
 
 16. The Two Births . . . Gal. i. 15. 
 
 17. Power and Goodness . . Rom. x. 12. 
 
 18. Peter and John . . . Acts iii. 1. 
 
 19. Advantages of Inquiry . . Deut. xxxii. 7. 
 
 20. Daily Mercy . . . . Ps. lxxxvi. 3. 
 
 21. God's Joy in his People . . Zeph. iii. 17. 
 
 22. Trials not strange . . 1 Pet. iv. 12. 
 
 23. Confidence from Knowledge . 2 Tim. i. 12. 
 
 24. Walking in God's Truth . Ps. lxxxvi. 11. 
 
 25. The Privileges of the Tpright Ps. xxxvii. 18. 
 
 26. God's Word and Works compared John xiv. 29. 
 
 27. The Saviour's Agency . . Mark vii. 37. 
 
 28. Satan disappointed . . John xiv. 30. 
 
 29. The Gracious Purpose . . 1 Thess. v. 9. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 285 
 
 30. Departure of Christ Desired 
 
 31. The Saviour's Obedience 
 
 April 1. The Bloody Sweat 
 
 2. The Saviour's Apprehension 
 
 3. The Saviour's Stipulation 
 
 4. The Death of Christ 
 
 5. The Burial of Christ 
 
 6. Christ seen of numbers . 
 
 7. The Holy One incorruptible . 
 
 8. The Grand Attainment . 
 
 9. Death and Life with Christ 
 
 10. The Glory that followed 
 
 11. Character of Gospel Times 
 
 12. Justification free 
 
 13. The Saviour's Attraction 
 
 14. Creature Dependence vain 
 
 15. The Sad Detection 
 
 16. Christians not Comfortless 
 
 17. The Divine Engraving . 
 
 18. The Leaven in the Meal * 
 
 19. Love to the Brethren 
 
 20. Christ Praying in his Agony . 
 
 21. Seeking Christ Crucified 
 
 22. The Rising and Resting Prayer 
 
 23. David's Resolution 
 
 24. Too Late .... 
 
 25. Early Rising .... 
 
 26. The Learner .... 
 
 27. Members one of another . 
 
 28. Christ leaving this World 
 
 29. Angelic Succor 
 
 30. Peter remembered . 
 
 May 1. Vineyards in the Wilderness . 
 
 2. Dedication of David's House . 
 
 3. The Divine Revelation . 
 
 4. Self pleasing renounced . 
 
 5. The One Thing Needful . 
 
 6. The Seat of Prayer . 
 
 7. The Sun of Righteousness 
 
 8. Looking for God 
 
 9. Daniel Delivered 
 
 10. The Departure from Egypt 
 
 11. The Cripple holds Peter and John 
 
 12. The Angry Disciples reproved 
 
 13. Divine Relief .... 
 
 14. Passing under the Rod 
 
 15. The Bonds of the Covenant 
 
 25 
 
 Matt. viii. 34. 
 John xiv. 31. 
 
 Luke xxii. 44. 
 John xviii. 7. 
 John xviii. 8. 
 Rom. v. 8. 
 1 Cor. xv. 4. 
 1 Cor. xv. 6. 
 Ps. xvi. 10, 11. 
 Phil. hi. 11. 
 Rom. vi. 8. 
 IPet. i. 11. 
 Zech. iii. 10. 
 Rom. iii. 24. 
 Zech. iii. 9. 
 Lam. iv. 20. 
 Matt. xxvi. 56. 
 John xiv. 18. 
 Zech. iii. 9. 
 Matt. xiii. 23. 
 1 John iii. 16. 
 Luke xxii. 44. 
 Matt, xxviii. 5. 
 Num. x. 35, 36. 
 Ps. lxi. 2, 3. 
 Luke xix. 42. 
 Mark i. 35. 
 Luke viii. 35. 
 
 1 Cor. xi. 20. 
 John xiii. 1. 
 Luke xxii. 43. 
 Mark xvi. 7. 
 
 Hos. ii. 15. 
 Ps. xxx. 
 Gal. i. 16. 
 Rom. xv. 3. 
 John iv. 10. 
 
 2 Sam. vii. 27. 
 Mai. iv. 2. 
 Isa. viii. 17. 
 Dan. vi. 23. 
 Exod. xiii. 18, 19. 
 Acts iii. 13. 
 Luke ix. 52-56. 
 Rom. vii. 25. 
 Ezek. xx. 37. 
 Ezek. xx. 37. 
 
286 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 16. Christ going up to Jerusalem . 
 
 17. Strong Faith .... 
 
 18. Good to be here 
 
 19. Washing the Disciples' Feet . 
 
 20. An Interest in Christ ascertained 
 
 21. The Day of Rejoicing 
 
 22. Justification by Faith 
 
 23. The Only Master . 
 
 24. Wishing to go over Jordan 
 
 25. Grieving the Spirit 
 
 26. Christ's Inheritance 
 
 27. The Tongue loosed i 
 
 28. Knowledge increased 
 
 29. God's Offspring 
 
 30. Prayer indispensable 
 
 31. Blessing the Food 
 
 June 1. The Vine 
 
 2. The Branches 
 
 3. Our Hope 
 
 4. The Waterpot left 
 
 5. The Morning Arm 
 
 6. Humble Walking 
 
 7. The Lord our Judge 
 
 8. Grace in Christ 
 
 9. Piety and Charity 
 
 10. Delighting in Mercy 
 
 11. Isaac old and dim 
 
 12. The Fiery Cloudy Pillar 
 
 13. Sins punished and improved 
 
 14. Ignorance of Christ 
 
 15. The Nations divided 
 
 16. God's Lovingkindness contem 
 
 plated 
 
 17. The Value of the Saviour 
 
 18. Paul employed at Tent-making 
 
 19. The Strength of Grace . 
 
 20. The Blessed Heritage 
 
 21. Satan resisted 
 
 22. Conversion of the Samaritaness 
 
 23. The God of Nature and Grace 
 
 24. The Conversion of the Corinthians 
 
 25. God choosing our Resting-place 
 
 26. Christ talking with the Woman 
 
 27. A Shadow from the Heat 
 
 28. The Divine Inquiry 
 
 29. Paul encouraged at Corinth 
 
 30. The gladdening River 
 
 Luke ix. 51. 
 Dan. iii. 17, 18. 
 Matt. xvii. 4. 
 John xiii. 4, 5. 
 2 Cor. ix. 15. 
 Phil. ii. 16. 
 Gal. ii. 16. 
 Matt, xxiii. 8. 
 Deut iii. 25. 
 Eph. iv. 30. 
 Ps. ii. 8. 
 Matt ix. 33. 
 2 Pet. iii. 18. 
 Deut. xiv. 1. 
 Ps. ii. 8. 
 Luke xxiv. 30. 
 
 John xv. 5. 
 John xv. 5. 
 
 1 Tim. i. 1. 
 John iv. 28. 
 Isa. xxxiii. 2. 
 Micah vi. 8. 
 Isa. xxxii. 22. 
 
 2 Tim. ii. 1. 
 Acts iii. 2. 
 Micah vii. 18. 
 Gen. xxvii. 1-4. 
 Exod. xiii. 21, 2: 
 Num. xvi. 38. 
 John xiv. 9. 
 Deut. xxxii. 8. 
 
 Ps. xxvi. 3. 
 
 Lam. iv. 20. 
 Acts xviii. 1-3. 
 2 Tim. ii. 1. 
 Ps. lxi. 5. 
 Eph. iv. 27. 
 John iv. 34. 
 Ps. xxix. 11. 
 Acts xviii. 7, 8. 
 Num. x. 33. 
 John iv. 27. 
 Isa. xxv. 4. 
 1 Kings xix. 9. 
 Acts xviii. 9, 10. 
 Ps. xlvi. 4. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 287 
 
 July 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1. The Sight of God's Glory 
 
 2. Israel's Song at Beer 
 
 3. Faint 
 
 4. Pursuing 
 
 5. Submission to God . 
 
 6. The End of Ordinances 
 
 7. Indwelling Sin deplored 
 
 8. Justification and Sanctification 
 
 9. Our Lord's Praying 
 
 10. Christian Gratitude 
 
 11. Elijah's Journey to Horeb 
 
 12. Daily Dying .... 
 
 13. The Divine Requisition . 
 
 14. The Saviour's Peace 
 
 15. The Injuriousness of Unbelief 
 
 16. Former Days remembered 
 
 17. The Holy Unction . 
 
 18. Riches of Mercy 
 
 19. The Bow in the Cloud . 
 
 20. Intimacy with Jesus 
 
 21. The Experience of Divine Grace 
 
 22. The Victor .... 
 
 23. Encouragements to Prayer 
 
 24. God proved .... 
 
 25. The Prophet of the Church 
 
 26. Treasure Hid in the Field 
 
 27. The Gracious State 
 
 28. The Seeker encouraged 
 
 29. Showing himself risen 
 
 30. The Third Appearance . 
 
 31. Jesus at the Lake 
 
 Exod. xxxiii. 18. 
 Numb. xxi. 16-19. 
 Judges viii. 4. 
 Judges viii. 4. 
 James iv. 7. 
 Matt. xi. 7. 
 Rom. vii. 24. 
 ICor. vi. 11. 
 Luke xi. 1. 
 2 Cor. ix. 15. 
 1 Kings xix. 8. 
 1 Cor. xv. 31. 
 Ezek. xxxvi. 37. 
 John xiv. 27. 
 Matt. xiii. 53-58. 
 Heb. x. 32. 
 1 John ii. 20. 
 Ephes. ii. 4. 
 Ezek. i. 28. 
 Acts iv. 13. 
 Ps. xxxiv. 8. 
 Rev. iii. 21. 
 Ps. lxxxvi. 5. 
 Mai. iii. 10. 
 
 Matt. xiii. 44. 
 Rom. v. 2. 
 1 Chron. xvi. 
 Acts i. 3. 
 John xxi. 14. 
 John xxi. 1. 
 
 10. 
 
 1. The Questioning of Peter . John xxi. 18. 
 
 2. Peter's Destiny . . . John xxi. 18, 19. 
 
 3. Curiosity reproved . . John xxi. 19-22. 
 
 4. Circumstantial Truth . . John xxi. 23. 
 
 5. Harvest Joel iii. 13. 
 
 6. The Sickle .... Joel iii. 13. 
 
 7. The Kingdom of God . . 1 Cor. iv. 20. 
 
 8. Learning to Pray . . . Luke xi. 1. 
 
 9. The Seasonable Admonition . Jer. xiii. 16. 
 
 10. The Growing Empire . . John iii. 30. 
 
 11. Commendation . . . Phil. ii. 12. 
 
 12. God's Holiness . . . Ps. xxx. 4. 
 
 13. The Disinterested Inquiry . 2 Sam. ix. 1. 
 
 14. Mephibosheth's Humility . 2 Sam. ix. 7, 8. 
 
 15. The Waiting Church . . Ps. lxv. 1. 
 
 16. Christ's Power and Dominion Matt. xvii. 27. 
 
 17. Extent of Christian Knowledge 1 John ii. 20. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 18. Morning Devotion . 
 
 19. God's Union with his People . 
 
 20. God's going forth as the Morning 
 
 21. Lazarus Sick . 
 
 22. The Word of Christ 
 
 23. Waiting rewarded . 
 
 24. The Smitten Shepherd 
 
 25. The Hearer of Prayer 
 
 26. Divine Espousals 
 
 27. Heirship . 
 
 28. Varied Experience 
 
 29. The Blessing of Faith 
 
 30. Holy Vigilance 
 
 31. The never-failing Relation 
 
 Sept. 1. Word of Life .... 
 
 2. The Practical Preacher . 
 
 3. The Pious Excursion 
 
 4. The Saviour's Legacy 
 
 5. Divine Strengthening 
 
 6. God conducting Israel 
 
 7. Prophecy of Hosea 
 
 8. God's Forbearance 
 
 9. The Christian Joyful 
 
 10. Joy before God ... 
 
 11. Joy of Harvest * 
 
 12. God's Love to his People 
 
 13. The Title known 
 
 14. The Needful Caution 
 
 15. The Important Inquiry 
 
 16. The Surrender 
 
 17. The Use of Means . 
 
 18. The Freed Prisoners 
 
 19. The Successful Follower 
 
 20. The Sinless Saviour 
 
 21. The Divine Presence 
 
 22. God the Husband of his Church 
 
 23. Mutual Dependence 
 
 24. The Christian Obligation 
 
 25. Impatience .... 
 
 26. Peter brought to Christ 
 
 27. Zeal to save .... 
 
 28. Zion's Sons .... 
 
 29. The Call to depart . 
 
 30. Filial Duty .... 
 
 Oct. 1. Death not always desirable 
 
 2. The Noble Resolve 
 
 3. Christian Moderation 
 
 Ps. v. 3. 
 Jer. iii. 14. 
 Hos. vi. 3. 
 John xi. 3. 
 Col. iii. 16. 
 Ps. xxxvii. 34. 
 Zech. xiii. 7. 
 Ps. lxv. 2. 
 Hos. ii. 19. 
 Titus iii. 6. 
 Ps. lxv. 3. 
 Gal. iii. 9. 
 1 Peter i. 17. 
 Hos. ii. 9. 
 
 Phil. ii. 16. 
 Phil. ii. 16. 
 1 Sam. iii. 9. 
 John xiv. 27. 
 Zech. x. 12. 
 Deut. xxxii. 10. 
 Hos. i. 1. 
 Rom. ii. 4. 
 Is. ix. 3. 
 Is. ix. 3. 
 Is. ix. 3. 
 Deut. xxxiii. 3. 
 Gen. xv. 8. 
 Prov. iii. 5. 
 Acts ix. 6. 
 Acts ix. 6. 
 Matt. xvii. 27. 
 Zech. ix. 11. 
 Hos. vi. 3. 
 1 John iii. 5. 
 Exod. xxxiii. 14. 
 Is. liv. 5. 
 Phil. iv. 2-4. 
 1 John ii. 6. 
 Ps. Iv. 8. 
 John i. 42. 
 John i. 42. 
 Lam. iv. 2. 
 Micah ii. 10. 
 Mai. i. 6. 
 
 Amos v. 18. 
 Ps. lxxxv. 8. 
 Phil. iv. 5. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 289 
 
 4. The Shining Light. 
 
 5. Christ entering Heaven . 
 
 6. The Stranger and Sojourner . 
 
 7. The well-attended Flock 
 
 8. Prayer and Thanksgiving 
 
 9. Adversity Useful 
 
 10. Changes in the Wilderness 
 
 11. The Ascending Saviour followed 
 
 12. The Good Shepherd 
 
 13. Sparing Mercy 
 
 14. Prosperity Injurious 
 
 15. Difference between Words and 
 
 Deeds 
 
 16. Brevity of the Scripture 
 
 17. The Alarm 
 
 18. Confidence and Caution . 
 
 19. Inattention 
 
 20. The Blessed Sight . 
 
 21. Divine Solicitude 
 
 22. Design of the Incarnation 
 
 23. Life more abundantly 
 
 24. The Morning Star . 
 
 25. The Door 
 
 26. The Subjects Agents too 
 
 27. The Clean Heart 
 
 28. Blessedness of Loving God 
 
 29. Prayer and Trouble 
 
 30. Messiah the Prince 
 
 31. Concern for the Best Cause 
 
 Prov. iv. 18. 
 1 Peter iii. 22. 
 Ps.'xxxix. 12. 
 Ezek. xxxiv. 15. 
 Phil. iv. 6. 
 Hos. xiii. 5. 
 Numb. x. 12. 
 Luke xxiv. 50, 51. 
 John x. 14. 
 Mai. iii. 17. 
 Hos. xiii. 6. 
 
 Deut. v. 28. 
 
 John xxi. 25. 
 Rom. xiii. 11. 
 Ps. Ixxxv. 8. 
 Is. xiii. 20. 
 Is. xxxiii. 17. 
 Deut. v. 29. 
 John x. 10. 
 John x. 10. 
 Rev. ii. 28. 
 John x. 9. ■ 
 Jer. iv. 14. 
 Jer. iv. 14. 
 1 Cor. viii. 3. 
 Ps. lxxxvi. 7. 
 Dan. ix. 25. 
 Ps. lxxii. 15. 
 
 Nov. 1. How to read the Scriptures . Luke x. 26. 
 
 2. The Season of Life . . . IPet. iv. 2. 
 
 3. Joy in Sorrow . . .2 Cor. vi. 10. 
 
 4. The Divine Healer . . Matt. viii. 7. 
 
 5. God forever ours . . . Ps. xlviii. 14. 
 
 6. The Revealer of Secrets . Dan. ii. 28. 
 
 7. Unbelief of Christ's Brethren . John vii. 5. 
 
 8. Captiousness of the Pharisees Matt. ix. 11. 
 
 9. The Whole and the Sick . Matt. ix. 12. 
 
 10. Christ the Resurrection . . John xi. 25. 
 
 11. Joy in God's Salvation . . 1 Sam. ii. 1. 
 
 12. God's Sole Agency . . . Deut. xxxii. 12. 
 13 The Needful Disturbance . Deut. xxxii. 11. 
 
 14. Divine Example . . . Deut. xxxii. 11. 
 
 15. All-sufficient Assistance . . Deut. xxxii. 11. 
 
 16. God's Hidden Ones . . Ps. lxxxiii. 3. 
 
 17. The Seed of the Messiah . Ps. lxxxix. 36. 
 
 18. The Enlarged Prayer . . Ps. lxxxi. 10. 
 
 19. The Importance of Faith . John ix. 35. 
 
 20. With Jesus in the Garden . John xviii. 26. 
 
 25* 
 
290 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 21. Elisha's Sickness 
 
 22. Partial Zeal . 
 
 23. Elisha's Sepulchre . 
 
 24. Prosperity in the Divine Life . 
 
 25. The Evidence of Faith . 
 
 26. The Resting-place forgotten . 
 
 27. Union of Faith and Love 
 
 28. Habitual Piety 
 
 29. The Two Commandments 
 
 30. The Personal Inquiry 
 
 Dec. 1. The Groundless Accusation 
 
 2. The Persevering Suppliant 
 
 3. Job's Confession 
 
 4. Knowledge of our Sinfulness . 
 
 5. Our Peace in Trouble 
 
 6. The Divine Defence 
 
 7. The Coming Soul discouraged 
 
 8. The Apostle's Glorifying 
 
 9. I am a burden to myself . • 
 
 10. Sabbath Influences . 
 
 11. Job's Praying for his Friends . 
 
 12. The Marys at the Sepulchre 
 
 13. The Wisdom of Zeal 
 
 14. The Needless Alarm 
 
 15. The Heavenly Shepherd 
 
 16. True Friendship 
 
 17. The Trial of the Scribe . 
 
 18. The Poverty of Jesus 
 
 19. New-born Citizens . 
 
 20. Jesus at the Feast 
 
 21. The End of affliction 
 
 22. The Valuation of the Sabbath 
 
 23. Attachment to Zion 
 
 24. The Dayspring 
 
 25. Birth of Jesus . 
 
 26. The Angel with the Shepherds 
 
 27. The Great Sight at Bethlehem 
 
 28. The Pious Pair 
 
 29. Strong Confidence . 
 
 30. Brevity of Life 
 
 31. Gratitude and Confidence 
 
 2 Kings xiii. 14. 
 2 Kings xiii. 19. 
 2 Kings xiii. 20, 21. 
 Ps. xcii. 12. 
 John ix. 35. 
 Jer. 1. 6. 
 1 Tim. i. 14. 
 Prov. xxiii. 17. 
 
 1 John iii. 23. 
 John ix. 35. 
 
 Job i. 9. 
 Matt. xv. 27. 
 Job xl. 4. 
 Job xiii. 23. 
 Micah v. 5. 
 Job i. 10. 
 Luke ix. 42. 
 
 2 Cor. xi. 30. 
 Job vii. 20. 
 Rev. i. 10. 
 Job xiii. 10. 
 Matt, xxvii. 61. 
 Phil. i. 9. 
 
 Job x. 2. 
 Rev. vii. 17. 
 1 Sam. xxiii. 16. 
 Matt. viii. 19, 20. 
 Matt. viii. 20. 
 Ps. lxxxvii. 4, 5. 
 John xi. 56. 
 Job x. 2. 
 Is. lviii. 13. 
 Ps. lxxxvii. 7. 
 Luke i. 78, 79. 
 Luke ii. 1-6. 
 Luke ii. 8, 9. 
 Luke ii. 15. 
 Luke i. 6. 
 Job xiii. 15. 
 Job x. 20. 
 Acts xxviii. 15. 
 
 SUBJECTS FROM JAY'S EVENING EXERCISES. 
 
 Jan. 1. Our ignorance and knowledge } 
 of Futurity <j 
 
 2. The importance of Opportunity 
 
 3. Angelic Students 
 
 Acts xx. 22, 23. 
 
 2 Cor. vi. 2. 
 1 Peter i. 12. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 291 
 
 4. The Groundless Conclusion 
 
 5. The Seasonable Caution 
 
 6. The Satisfying Indulgence 
 
 7. Increase of Faith 
 
 8. Tenderness of Divine regard . 
 
 9. Past Dispensations improved . 
 
 10. The Nearness of God 
 
 11. Christ owning Christians 
 
 12. The awful Night 
 
 13. Joseph naming his Sons 
 
 14. Onesiphorus .... 
 
 15. Gentleness of Christ 
 
 16. Following after God 
 
 17. Genuine Piety 
 
 18. God observes his People 
 
 19. The privilege of Godliness 
 
 20. The goodness of the Law 
 
 21. Religious equality . 
 
 22. Loss of a good Servant . 
 
 23. The heavenly High Priest 
 
 24. Pious Solicitude 
 
 25. Christians the Property of Christ 
 
 26. Admonitions concerning the ) 
 
 Right Way $ 
 
 27. Spiritual Victory 
 
 28. Prayer presented by Christ 
 
 29. Divine Protection 
 
 30. Divine Providence . 
 
 31. Imperfections acknowledged . 
 
 Gen. xlii. 36. 
 Mark xiii. 33. 
 John xiv. 8. 
 Luke xvii. 5. 
 Zech. ii. 8. 
 Ps. lxxiv. 14. 
 Acts xvii. 27. 
 Heb. ii. 11. 
 Dan. v. 30. 
 Gen. xli. 51, 52. 
 
 1 Tim. i. 15-18. 
 
 2 Cor. x. 1. 
 Rom. lxiii. 8. 
 Gen. vii. 1. 
 Gen. vii. 1. 
 Gen. vii. 1. 
 
 1 Tim. i. 8. 
 
 1 Sam. xxx. 24. 
 Gen. xxxv. 8. 
 Rev. 1. 13. 
 
 Ps. xix. 14. 
 Rom. xiv. 8. 
 
 2 Peter ii. 15. 
 
 1 John iv. 4. 
 Rev. viii. 3, 4. 
 Ps. cv. 14, 15. 
 Ps. cv. 16-21. 
 James hi. 2. 
 
 2 Tim. iv. 16. 
 2 Tim. iv. 17. 
 2 Tim. iv. 18. 
 
 1 Sam. xxi. 1. 
 
 2 Cor. xii. 10. 
 2 Cor. xii. 10. 
 
 Feb. 1. Paul deserted 
 
 2. Paul assisted . 
 
 3. Paul encouraged 
 
 4. An overruling Providence 
 
 5. Christian weakness 
 
 6. Christian strength . 
 
 7. Acknowledgment and Dependencel Thess. hi. 11. 
 
 8. The Mortal Body . . . Rom. viii. 10. 
 
 9. The real Conflict ... 1 Cor. ix. 26. 
 
 10. The invariable Practice . . Ps. xxxii. 6. 
 
 11. Grace in the Wilderness . Jer. xxxi. 2. 
 
 12. The child Samuel ... 1 Sam. hi. 15. 
 
 13. The value of Christians . . Matt. x. 31. 
 
 14. The Trembler . . . Acts xxiv. 25. 
 
 15. The Force of Truth . . Acts xxiv. 25. 
 
 16. The True Riches . . . Heb. x. 34. 
 
 17. The distinguished Church . Acts xiii. 1. 
 
 18. Laban's acknowledgment . Gen. xxx. 27. 
 
 19. John's Character and Associates Rev. i. 9. 
 
 20. Our Watchers . . . Ps. xxvii. 11. 
 
292 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 21. Stephen observed . 
 
 22. The Servant of God glorified 
 
 23. The Saviour's Promise and 
 
 Presence 
 
 24. Submission 
 
 25. Unwilling Devotion 
 
 26. Review and Expectation 
 
 27. The Strange Estimate 
 
 28. The Patience of Job 
 
 Mar. 1. Ephraim's Conversion 
 
 2. The Promises 
 
 3. The grand Inquiry 
 
 4. The satisfactory Answer 
 
 5. The wonderful Change 
 
 6. The common Receptacle 
 
 7. Divine Commendation 
 
 8. Disappointment and Envy 
 
 9. The sorrowless State 
 
 10. The regulated Worshipper 
 
 11. The General Meeting 
 
 12. Equality improved 
 
 13. Restraint from Sin 
 
 14. Christ's concern for his disciples 
 
 15. Constant respect to God 
 
 16. The Precious and Safe Foun 
 
 dation 
 
 17. Enoch's character 
 
 18. What God is to his People 
 
 19. The Name Written 
 
 20. Jacob's dying Address 
 
 21. True excellency 
 
 22. Stability recommended 
 
 23. The Prince and his People 
 
 24. The Devout Resolution . 
 
 25. The Blessed Strait 
 
 26. The Willing Sacrifice 
 
 27. No Creature a substitute for God 
 
 28. Gentleness .... 
 
 29. Active Resignation 
 
 30. Faith, Love, and Hope 
 
 31. Spiritual engrafting 
 
 April 1. Christian Joy 
 
 2. The important Hour 
 
 3. The Eucharistic Hymn . 
 
 4. Simon bearing the Cross after 
 
 Christ 
 
 5. Christ's Address to the Daugh- 
 
 ters of Jerusalem. 
 
 Acts vi. 15. 
 Acts vi. 15. 
 
 Matt, xxviii. 20. 
 
 1 Sam. iii. 18. 
 
 1 Sam. xxi. 7. 
 Ps. lxiii. 7. 
 James v. 11. 
 James v. 11. 
 
 Hosea xiv. 8. 
 
 2 Cor. i. 20. 
 Acts xvi. 30. 
 Acts xvi. 31. 
 Zech. ix. 7. 
 Eccles. vi. 6. 
 Luke xxii. 28, 29, 
 Gen. xxx. 1. 
 Rev. xxi. 4. I 
 Ezek. xlvi. 9. 
 Prov. xxii. 2. 
 Prov. xxii. 2. 
 Gen. xx. 6. 
 John xi. 15. 
 
 Ps. xvi. 8. 
 
 1 Peter ii. 6. 
 
 Gen. v. 24. 
 Ps. xxxiii. 20. 
 Rev. xix. 16. 
 Gen. xlxi. 2. 
 Gen. xlix. 4. 
 Gen. xlix. 4. 
 Ezek. xlvi. 10. 
 Ps. v. 7. 
 Phil. i. 23. 
 Phil. i. 24, 25. 
 Gen. xxx. 2. 
 Gal. v. 22. 
 2 Sam. xv. 15. 
 Col. i. 4, 5. 
 James i. 21. 
 
 John xvii. 13. 
 John xii. 27, 28. 
 Matt. xxvi. c0. 
 
 Luke xxiii. 26. 
 Luke xxiii. 27-31. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 293 
 
 6. Christ pierced 
 
 7. The double Effusion 
 
 8. The Sight of the Great Sufferer 
 
 9. Joseph of Arimathea 
 
 10. Christ the Life of Christians . 
 
 11. Nature 
 
 12. Providence .... 
 
 13. Grace 
 
 14. The Source of Comfort . 
 
 15. The Solemn Deprecation 
 
 16. The Wanderers 
 
 17. Sanctification 
 
 18. Care resigned 
 
 19. Care engaged 
 
 20. The Lilies 
 
 21. Helpers to the Truth 
 
 22. The proof of Sonship 
 
 23. Divine Encouragement . 
 
 24. Abraham's Devotion 
 
 25. Prudential Advice . 
 
 26. Intermediate Existence 
 
 27. Deliverances improved 
 
 28. The joyful Close 
 
 29. Comfort and Tribulation 
 
 30. Expectation of the Messiah 
 
 May 1. Peculiar Manifestation 
 
 2. Sinners a Curse 
 
 3. Saints a Blessing 
 
 4. The ascended Saviour 
 
 5. The Creed of Intemperance 
 
 6. Importunate Prayer 
 
 7. God Pacified . 
 
 8. The Temple . 
 
 9. The Builder . 
 
 10. The Glory 
 
 11. Experience 
 
 12. Divine Upholding . 
 
 13. The Scars of Honour 
 
 14. God's Workmen 
 
 15. Hannah's Address to Eli 
 
 16. Vows fulfilled 
 
 17. The Son of Consolation . 
 
 18. Importance of Christ 
 
 19. Walking with God 
 
 20. Many ignorant of Christ 
 
 21. Arrival at Philippi 
 
 22. The Divine Pastor 
 
 23. The Gospel of Peace 
 
 John xix. 34. 
 John xix. 34. 
 John xix. 37. 
 John xix. 38. 
 John xiv. 19. 
 Job xxiii. 16. 
 Job xxiii. 16. 
 Job xxiii. 16. 
 
 2 Cor. i. 3. 
 Ps. li. 11. 
 
 1 Pet. ii. 25. 
 Heb. ii. 11. 
 1 Peter v. 7. 
 1 Peter v. 7. 
 Matt. vi. 28. 
 
 3 John 8. 
 John viii. 42. 
 1 Tim. i. 16. 
 Gen. xiii. 1-4. 
 
 1 Tim. v. 23. 
 
 2 Cor. v. 8. 
 
 1 Sam. xvii. 37. 
 Acts xx. 24. 
 
 2 Cor. i. 4. 
 Haggai ii. 7. 
 
 John xiv. 22. 
 Zech. viii. 13. 
 Zech. viii. 13. 
 Luke xxiv. 52, 53. 
 1 Cor. xv. 32. 
 Luke xi. 5-10. 
 Ezek. xvi. 63. 
 Zech. vi. 13. 
 Zech. vi. 13. 
 Zech. vi. 13. 
 Gen. xxx. 27. 
 Ps. xvii. 5. 
 Luke xxiv. 39. 
 Zech. 1. 20. 
 1 Sam. i. 26, 27. 
 1 Sam. i. 28. 
 Acts iv. 36. 
 1 Cor. i. 30. 
 Gen. vi. 9. 
 John i. 26. 
 Acts xvi. 12. 
 Micah v. 4. 
 Isaiah lvii. 19. 
 

 294 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 24. The free Spirit 
 
 25. Divine Liberty 
 
 26. The awful Caution 
 
 27. Paul's Wish . 
 
 28. The anxiety of Pretence 
 
 29. Adoption 
 
 30. Prayer 
 
 31. Strom? Consolation 
 
 2 Cor. iii. 17. 
 2 Cor. iii. 17. 
 Heb. xii. 15. 
 Acts xxvi. 29. 
 Job vii. 20. 
 Gal. iv. 6. 
 Gal. iv. 6. 
 Heb. vi. 18. 
 
 June 
 
 1. 
 
 2. 
 
 3. 
 
 4. 
 
 5. 
 
 6. 
 
 7. 
 
 8. 
 
 9. 
 10. 
 11. 
 12. 
 13. 
 14. 
 15, 
 16. 
 17. 
 18. 
 19. 
 20. 
 21. 
 22. 
 
 23. 
 24. 
 25. 
 
 26. 
 27. 
 28. 
 29. 
 30. 
 
 God the Home of his People . 
 The Shamefulness of Sin 
 Displays of Divine Grace 
 Solace in Trouble ., 
 Attention to the Scriptures 
 Jacob's wrestling 
 Jacob disjointed 
 Determined Piety 
 Divine Benediction 
 The Pilgrim going forward 
 Jewish Phraseology explained 
 Mutual Consolation 
 Advantages of Revelation 
 Adam questioned 
 The Strayed restored 
 Christ wounded afresh 
 Jacob ; s Journeying . 
 The Gate of Heaven 
 Alpha and Omega . 
 The Miraculous Supply 
 The Rock Christ . 
 Hezekiah's Danger and Deliv- > 
 erance ( 
 
 Circumstances of Worship 
 Mediation of Christ 
 The present Saviour 
 The Glory of his Promise 
 Psalmody .... 
 
 Hezekiah's Sickness 
 Recovery from disease 
 The writing of Hezekiah 
 
 July 1. Jacob a dying 
 
 2. Anger and Grief united . 
 
 3. The Fight with Amalek 
 
 4. The Tenderness of Christ 
 
 5. The nature of the Promises 
 
 6. Moses a Shepherd . 
 
 7. The Burning Bush 
 
 8. The solemn Assembly 
 
 Ps. Ixxi. 3. 
 Hosea ix. 10. 
 Acts xi. 23. 
 Ps. xlii. 6. . 
 Deut. xxxii. 46. 
 Gen. xxxii. 24. 
 Gen. xxxii. 25, 26. 
 Gen. xxxii. 26, 27. 
 Gen. xxxii. 28, 29. 
 Gen. xxxii. 30, 32. 
 Zech. xiii. 3. 
 2 Cor. i. 4. 
 Micah ii. 7. 
 Gen. iii. 9. 
 1 Peter ii. 25. 
 Zech. xiii. 6. 
 Gen. xxviii. 11. 
 Gen. xxviii. 17. 
 Rev. i. 8. 
 Exod. xvii. 5, 6. 
 
 1 Cor. x. 4. 
 
 Isaiah xxxvi. 1, 2. 
 
 Matt, xviii. 20. 
 Matt, xviii. 20. 
 Matt, xviii. 20. 
 Matt, xviii. 20. 
 Ephes. v. 19. 
 
 2 Kings xx. 1. 
 Isa. xxxviii. 16. 
 Isa. xxxviii. 9. 
 
 Heb. xi. 21. 
 Mark iii. 5. 
 Exod. xvii. 8. 
 Matt. xii. 20. 
 2 Peter i. 4. 
 Exod. iii. 1, 2. 
 Exod. iii. 2. 
 Zeph. iii. 18. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 295 
 
 
 9. Smallness of Comfort 
 
 10. Patient Waiting 
 
 11. The Recluse . 
 
 12. The Observer 
 
 13. The Glorified Throng 
 
 14. Divine Longings 
 
 15. The true Israelites . 
 
 16. The Value of Christ 
 
 17. Elymas the Sorcerer 
 
 18. The Visitation 
 
 19. The Difference 
 
 20. The Contention 
 
 21. The Separation 
 
 22. Efficacy of Divine Truth 
 
 23. The Lord's Vineyard 
 
 24. The Father's Love to the Son 
 
 25. The needful Exhortation 
 
 26. God glorified in Christ . 
 
 27. Heavenly Treasure 
 
 28. The Saviour's Greatness 
 
 29. A meek reception of the Word 
 
 30. The Water of Life free . 
 
 31. Amalek destroyed . 
 
 Aug. 1. The Inhabitant of Maroth 
 
 2. Divine Influence and Refreshing 
 
 3. The Teaching Prayer 
 
 4. The Hill Mizar 
 
 5. Redemption finished 
 
 6. The Divine Appeal 
 
 7. Weanedness to the World 
 
 8. The Son of David . 
 
 9. The Child of Providence 
 
 10. The favoured Briton 
 
 11. The privileged Christian 
 
 12. The great Saviour 
 
 13. Jehovah Nissi 
 
 14. What God is to his People 
 
 15. The Stability of Faith . 
 
 16. The blessed Exchange 
 
 17. Jesus going up to Jerusalem . 
 
 18. The sure Anchor 
 
 19. John beheaded 
 
 20. The Blessed Man . 
 
 21. Little Children 
 
 22. David serving his Generation . 
 
 23. Moses addressed at the Bush . 
 
 24. Renovation of Spirit 
 
 25. The Revelation of Jesus Christ 
 
 Job xv. 11. 
 Heb. vi. 15. 
 John i. 48. 
 John i. 48. 
 Rev. iv. 4. 
 Ps. lxiii. 1, 2. 
 Zeph. iii. 13. 
 Heb. vi. 19. 
 Acts xiii. 6-12. 
 Acts xv. 36. 
 Acts xv. 37, 38. 
 Acts xv. 39. 
 Acts xv. 39-41. 
 John xvii. 17. 
 Isaiah xxvii. 2, 3. 
 John iii. 35. 
 Acts xi. 23. 
 John xiii. 31. 
 Mark x. 21. 
 Micah v. 4. 
 James i. 21. 
 Rev. xxi. 6. 
 Exod. xvii. 14. 
 
 Micah i. 12. 
 Isaiah xviii. 4. 
 Psalm xli. 3. 
 Psalm xiii. 6. 
 John xvii. 4. 
 Psalm cxxxi. 1. 
 Psalm cxxxi. 2. 
 Isaiah xi. 10. 
 Psalm xvi. 6. 
 Psalm xvi. 6. 
 Psalm xvi. 6. 
 Isaiah xix. 20. 
 Exod. xvii. 15. 
 Gen. xv. 1. 
 Isaiah vii. 9. 
 2 Cor. v. 1. 
 Mark x. 32. 
 Heb. vi. 19, 20. 
 Matt. xiv. 10. 
 Psalm i. 1, 2. 
 John ii. 12. 
 Acts xiii. 36. 
 Exod. iii. 5, 6. 
 Psalm ii. 10. 
 1 Peter i. 13. 
 
296 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 26. The Grace of Glory 
 
 27. The Duty of Christians . 
 
 28. The Tree of Righteousness 
 
 29. A little Strength 
 
 30. Jesus upon his Throne 
 
 31. The Royal Priesthood 
 
 Sept. 1. Jesus at Nazareth . 
 
 2. Religious Achievements . 
 
 3. A Pardoning God . 
 
 4. David's Distress 
 
 5. David's Relief 
 
 6. The Incarnation 
 
 7. The Glory of the House 
 
 8. Israel's Converts 
 
 9. The Sufficiency of the Scriptures 
 
 10. Jesus exalted .... 
 
 11. Confidence encouraged . 
 
 12. Preservation .... 
 
 13. Job's Stratagem . . . - 
 
 14. Views of Death 
 
 15. Manasseh .... 
 
 16. Inspired Friendship 
 
 17. Christian Holiness , 
 
 18. Obduracy .... 
 
 19. Besetting Sin 
 
 20. The Father of the Lunatic 
 
 21. Gracious Tears 
 
 22. Harvest 
 
 23. The Gospel Feast . 
 
 24. The certain Test 
 
 25. Sorrows carried to Christ 
 
 26. The Grand Bestowment 
 
 27. Death disagreeable to Nature 
 
 28. Application to Christ 
 
 29. The Outcasts Preserved 
 
 30. The Cloud of Witnesses 
 
 Oct. 1. The Beatific Sight 
 
 2. Christ's Preaching . 
 
 3. Divine Sustentation 
 
 4. The unkindly Friend 
 
 5. Herod's Persecution 
 
 6. The Christian Race 
 
 7. Manasseh's Prayer 
 
 8. Pre-eminent Advantages 
 
 9. The Hard Heart 
 
 10. Divine Tuition 
 
 11. Morality 
 
 1 Peter i. 13. 
 1 Peter i. 13. 
 Psalm i. 3. 
 Rev. hi. 8. 
 Zech. vi. 13. 
 Zech. vi. 13. 
 
 Luke iv. 16. 
 Dan. xi. 32. 
 Micah vii. 18. 
 1 Sam. xxx. 6. 
 
 1 Sam. xxx. 6. 
 John i. 14. 
 Haggai ii. 7. 
 Isaiah xiv. 1. 
 Isaiah viii. 20. 
 Psalm ex. 1. 
 Isaiah xii. 10. 
 Job vii. 20. 
 
 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 
 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 
 
 2 Chron. xxxiii. < 
 Zech. xiii. 6. 
 
 1 Peter i. 15. 
 Heb. hi. 13. 
 Heb. xii. 1. 
 Mark ix. 17. 
 Mark ix. 24. 
 Psalm lxviii. 10. 
 Isaiah xxv. 6. 
 John vi, 45. 
 Matt. xiv. 12. 
 John iii. 35.. 
 
 2 Cor. v. 4. 
 
 1 Peter ii. 4. 
 Isaiah xvi. 4. 
 Heb. xii. 1. 
 
 Psalm xvii. 15. 
 
 Lukt 
 
 Heb. i. 3. 
 
 2 Sam. xvi. 17. 
 Acts xii. 1-3. 
 Heb. xii. 1, 2. 
 2 Chron. xxxiii. 
 Matt. xiii. 17. 
 Ezek. iii. 7. 
 Isaiah liv. 13. 
 Job xiv. 10. 
 
 13. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 297 
 
 12. Christ's Plenitude . . * John i. 14. 
 
 13. The Church praying for Peter Acts xii. 5. 
 
 14. The Wonderful Deliverance . Acts xii. 6, 7. 
 
 15. The Glorious Rest . . . Isaiah xi. 10. 
 
 16. The Right Hand . . . Matt. xxv. 34. 
 
 17. Christian Salutations . . Philemon 23-25. 
 
 18. A sanctifying God . . . Micah vii. 19. 
 
 19. The Ark received by Obed-edom 2 Sam. vi. 10. 
 
 20. The Banished not Expelled . 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 
 
 21. Whose I am .... Acts xxvii. 23. 
 
 22. The Seasonable Messenger . Acts xxvii. 23. 
 
 23. The Cheering Assurance . Acts xxvii. 24-26. 
 
 24. Unbelief bewailed . . . Mark ix. 24. 
 
 25. The Work of God . . . Micah vii. 14. 
 
 26. The Expiation . . . Heb. i. 3. 
 
 27. Following with Fear . . Mark x. 32. 
 
 28. The Heavenly Rest . .2 Thess. i. 6, 7. 
 
 29. Divine Blessing . . . 1 Chron. xxvi. 5. 
 
 30. Obed-edom's Fame . . 2 Sam. vi. 12. 
 
 31. An Illumination . . . . John ix. 30. 
 
 Nov. 1. The Reality of Conversion 
 
 2. The Perfect Likeness 
 
 3. The Influence of Prayer . 
 
 4. The willing Victim 
 
 5. The Sanctified Believer . 
 
 6. The Eternity of God 
 
 7. The Burdened Soul 
 
 8. Divine Security and Support . 
 
 9. The Good Shepherd 
 
 10. The Endearer of Christ . 
 
 11. Christ Precious 
 
 12. The Perplexed and Inquiring ) 
 
 Christian $ 
 
 13. The Burden removed 
 
 14. Vital Participation of Christ 
 
 15. The Heroism of Faith 
 
 16. The Sufferer the Succourer 
 
 17. Confession of Christ 
 
 18. Divine Applause 
 
 19. Future Glory .... 
 
 20. The Final Exclusion 
 
 21. The Devout Traveller 
 
 22. The Gospel Feast . 
 
 23. The Practical Christian . 
 
 24. The Trial of Uprightness 
 
 25. Divine Influence proved . 
 
 26. Full Satisfaction 
 
 27. Conscious Relief 
 
 26 
 
 2 Chron. xxxiii. 13. 
 Psalm xvii. 15. 
 Philemon 22. 
 John xvii. 19. 
 John xvii. 19. 
 Gen. xxi. 36. 
 2 Cor. v. 4. 
 Deut. xxxiii. 27. 
 Luke xv. 5. 
 1 Peter ii. 7. 
 1 Peter ii. 7. 
 
 Job xxiii. 8, 9. 
 
 Psalm iv. 22. 
 John vi. 53. 
 John xi. 15. 
 Heb. ii. 18. 
 Matt. x. 32. 
 Matt. x. 32. 
 1 Peter v. 1/ 
 Matt. xxv. 41. 
 Ruth i. 21. 
 Matt. xxii. 4. 
 John iii. 21. 
 John iii. 21. 
 John iii. 21. 
 Psalm xvii. 15. 
 Job xiii. 10. 
 
298 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 28. The Twofold Benediction . Ephes. i. 3. 
 
 29. Christian Partnership . . Philemon 17. 
 
 30. The Birth of Noah . . . Gen. v. 29. 
 
 Dec. 1. The Saviour's Glory . . John i. 14. 
 
 2. Tabernacle Services . . Num. vii. 1-9. 
 
 3. The Experience of Christ . Heb. v. 8. 
 
 4. The Precious Trial . . Job xxiii. 10. 
 
 5. Jeremiah in the Dungeon . Jer. xxxviii. 6. 
 
 6. The Kind Ethiopian . . Jer. xxxviii. 11-13. 
 
 7. Kindness rewarded . . Jer. xxxix. 5-18. 
 
 8. The Simple Acknowledgment . John ix. 25. 
 
 9. The Sufferings of Christ . Isaiahliii.il. 
 
 10. The Effects of Christ's Death Isaiah liii. 11. 
 
 11. The Saviour's Satisfaction . Isaiahliii.il. 
 
 12. Man's Ignorance and Inability Jer. x. 23. 
 
 13. The Offering of the Princes . Num. vii. 10. 
 
 14. The Author of Salvation . Heb. v. 9. 
 
 15. The Minstrel .... 2 Kings iii. 15. 
 
 16. The Mediator . . . Jer. xxx. 21. 
 
 17. Paul Preserved . . . Acts ix. 23-25. 
 
 18. The New Disciple . . . Acts ix. 26, 27. 
 
 19. Divine Condescension . . 2 1 hron. vi. 18. 
 
 20. The Caution .... 1 Kings xx. 11. 
 
 21. Acceptable Prayer . . 1 Tim. ii. 8. 
 
 22. Safety in Danger . . .2 Kings vi. 15-17. 
 
 23. The Mediator . . . Jer. xxx. 21. 
 
 24. The Love of Jesus . . . Ephes. v. 2. 
 
 25. The Saviour's Birth . . Micah v. 2. 
 
 26. The Character of Christ . . Luke ii. 25. 
 
 27. The Improvement of the BlessingLuke ii. 25. 
 
 28. The Elder Brother . . Heb. ii. 17. 
 
 29. The Presentation of Jacob . Gen. xlvii. 7. 
 
 30. The Question of Pharaoh . Gen. xlvii. 8. 
 
 31. The Representation of Life . Gen. xlvii. 9. 
 
ON PRAYER. FROM BICKERSTETH. 
 
 The Nature and Duty of Prayer. 
 
 The Privilege of Prayer. 
 
 The Assistance of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 The Intercession of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Private Prayer. 
 
 Public Prayer. 
 
 Family Prayer. 
 
 Social Prayer. 
 
 The General Habit of Prayer. 
 
 Spirit of Prayer for Christ's Kingdom. 
 
 Distractions in Prayer. 
 
 How to attain the Spirit of Prayer. 
 
 The Use of Forms. 
 
 Ejaculatory Prayer. 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN HEARER. FROM THE SAME. 
 
 General Importance of Hearing the Word. 
 National Benefits of a preached Gospel. 
 Preaching the Word the Special Ordinance of God 
 
 for Salvation. 
 The Presence of Christ, the Glory of Christian 
 
 Assemblies. 
 The Holy Spirit received in hearing the Word, the 
 
 only source of Genuine Profit. 
 Relative Situation and respective Duties of Ministers 
 
 and People. 
 Directions for Hearing the Word. 
 Importance of Reflecting on what we have heard. 
 Practical Obedience to the Word. 
 Answers to Objections against Practical Obedience. 
 Observations on the Parable of the Sower. 
 The Universal Diffusion of Divine Knowledge. 
 Danger of Neglecting Divine Truth. 
 Blessed Results of Faithful Hearing. 
 Exhortations to Different Classes. 
 
THE LORD'S SUPPER. FROM THE SAME. 
 
 Its Appointment. 
 
 Atonement. 
 
 Faith in the Atonement. 
 
 The New Covenant. 
 
 Design of the Supper. 
 
 Obligations to Receive it. 
 
 Excuses Answered. 
 
 On Receiving Unworthily. 
 
 Preparation. 
 
 Benefits. 
 
 Happiness which follows. 
 
 Communion with Christ and his People. 
 
 Improvement of the Supper. 
 
 Helps for Self-Examination. 
 
 Regulation and Employment of the mind at 
 
 Communion. 
 Prayer after Receiving. 
 
 THE PARABLES. FROM SIMEON. 
 
 The Use and Intent of Parables. 
 Mat. 13: 13-15. 
 
 The Rocky and Sandy Foundations. 
 
 Luke 6: 47-49. 
 
 The Insolvent Debtors. 
 
 Luke 7: 40-42. 
 
 The Relapsed Demoniac. 
 Mat. 12: 43-45. 
 
 The Sower. 
 Mat. 13: 18. 
 
 Living Water. 
 John. 4; 14s 
 
PARABLES. 
 
 Beam and Mote. 
 Mat. 7: 3-5. 
 
 Strait Gate. 
 
 Mat. 7: 13, 14. 
 
 The Wise Builder. 
 Luke 6: 47-49. 
 
 The Strong Man Armed. 
 Luke 11: 21, 22. 
 
 The Householder. 
 Mat. 13: 56. 
 
 The Lighted Candle. 
 
 Luke 8: 16-18. 
 
 The Grain of Mustard-Seed, 
 
 Mark 4: 30-32. 
 
 Leaven Hid. 
 Mat. 13: 33. 
 
 Hidden Treasure. 
 
 Mat. 13: 44. 
 
 The Net Cast. 
 
 Mat. 13: 47-50. 
 
 The Good Samaritan. 
 
 Luke 10: 30-35. 
 The Rich Fool. 
 
 Luke 12: 20, 21. 
 
 The Barren Fig-Tree. 
 Luke 13: 7-9. 
 
 The Ambitious Guest. 
 Luke 14: 7-10. 
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 301 
 
302 
 
 PARABLES. 
 
 The Great Supper. 
 Luke 14: 16-18. 
 
 The Foolish Builder and Inconsiderate 
 King. 
 
 Luke 14: 28-33. 
 
 The Lost Sheep. 
 Luke 15: 3-7. 
 
 The Lost Piece of Silver. 
 Luke 15: 8-10. 
 
 The Prodigal Son. 
 Luke 15: 23, 24. 
 
 The Prodigal's Elder Brother. 
 Luke 15: 28. 
 
 The Unjust Steward. 
 Luke 16: 8. 
 
 The Rich Man and Lazarus. 
 Luke 16: 25. 
 
 The Obedient Servant. 
 Luke 17: 10. 
 
 The Importunate Widow. 
 Luke 18: 6-8. 
 
 The Pharisee and Publican. 
 Luke 18: 13, 14. 
 
 The Good Shepherd. 
 
 John 10: 9. 
 
 The Labourers. The Tares. 
 Mat. 20: 6, 7. 
 
PARABLES. 
 
 The Pounds. 
 
 Luke 19: 12, 13. 
 
 The Rebellious Citizens. 
 Luke 19: 12, 14. 
 
 The Two Sons. 
 Mat. 21: 28-31. 
 
 The Wicked Husbandmen. 
 Luke 20: 15. 
 
 The Rejected Corner-Stone. 
 
 Luke 20: 17, 18. 
 
 The Wedding Garment. 
 Mat. 12: 11-13. 
 
 The Budding Fig-Tree. 
 Luke 21: 29, 30. 
 
 The Ten Virgins. 
 Mat. 25: 10. 
 
 The Talents. 
 
 Mat 25: 22, 23. 
 
 303 
 
 MIRACLES. 
 
 Analogy between Bodily and Spiritual 
 Cures. 
 
 Luke 6: 19. 
 
 The Temptation. 
 Mat. 4: 1. 
 
 Purging of the Temple. 
 John 2: 17. 
 
304 MIRACLES. 
 
 The Nobleman's Sou Cured. 
 John 4: 49-51. 
 
 Christ withdrawing from those who 
 were about to murder him. 
 Luke 4: 28-30. 
 
 The Draught of Fishes. 
 Luke 5: 8-11. 
 
 The Unclean Spirit cast out. 
 Luke 4: 33, 34. 
 
 Peter's Wife's Mother Cured. 
 
 Luke 4: 38, 39. 
 
 A Leper Healed. 
 Mark 1: 45. 
 
 A Paralytic Healed. 
 
 Mark 2: 8-12. 
 
 Pool of Bethesda. 
 John 5: 14. 
 
 A Man with a Withered Hand. 
 
 Mark 3: 5-7. 
 
 The Centurion's Servant Healed. 
 
 Luke 7: 6, 7. 
 
 The Widow's Son Raised. 
 Luke 7: 14-16. 
 
 The Blind and Dumb Man Dispossessed. 
 
 Mat. 12: 22, 23. 
 
 The Tempest Calmed. 
 
 Mat. 8: 27. 
 
MIRACLES. 305 
 
 The Gadarene Demoniac Dispossessed. 
 Mark. 5: 16-18. 
 
 Jairus' Daughter Raised. 
 
 Luke 8: 50. 
 
 Two Blind Men Healed. 
 
 Mat. 9: 28-30. 
 
 Five Thousand Fed. 
 Luke 9: 12, 13. 
 
 Jesus Walking on the Sea. 
 Mat. 14: 26, 27. 
 
 Peter Sinking. 
 Mat. 14: 30, 31. 
 
 The Daughter of the Canaanites Dis- 
 possessed. 
 Mat. 15: 28. 
 
 The Deaf and Dumb Man Healed. 
 
 Mark 7: 32-36. 
 
 Whole Multitudes Healed. 
 Mat. 15: 30, 31. 
 
 The Transfiguration. 
 Luke 9: 29-32. - 
 
 The Demon Expelled from the Deaf 
 and Dumb Lunatic. 
 Mark 9: 25-27. 
 
 Tribute Money supplied by a Fish. 
 Mat. 17: 27. 
 
 The Crooked Woman Healed. 
 
 Luke 13: 15, 16. 
 
 
306 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 
 
 The Dropsical Man Healed. 
 
 Luke 14: 1-4. 
 
 The Ten Lepers Healed. 
 Luke 17: 17, 18. 
 
 The Blind Man at the Pool of Siloam, 
 John 9: 6, 7. 
 
 Lazarus Raised. 
 John 11:40. 
 
 Bartimeus Healed. 
 Mark 10: 49, 50. 
 
 The Barren Fig-tree Cursed. 
 Mat. 21: 18-22. 
 
 Christ's Enemies abashed by a Word. 
 
 John 18: 4-9. 
 
 Malchus' Ear Healed. 
 Luke 22: 50, 51. 
 
 LECTURES ON THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY, BY 
 DANIEL WILSON, D. D. 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 1 Peter 3: 15. But sanctify the Lord in 
 your hearts : and be ready always to give 
 an answer to every man that asketh you a 
 reason of the hope that is in you with 
 meekness and fear. 
 
 The Temper of Mind in which the Subject 
 should be studied. 
 
 Luke 18: 17. Verily I say unto you, Who- 
 
EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 307 
 
 soever shall not receive the kingdom of 
 God as a little child shall in nowise enter 
 therein. 
 
 The Indispensable Necessity of a Divine Reve- 
 lation shown from the State of Man in all 
 ages. 
 
 Rom. 1: 19-24. 
 
 The Authenticity of the New Testament. 
 2 Thess. 3: 17. 
 
 The Direct Proofs of the Authenticity of the 
 New Testament. 
 
 Acts 26: 26. 
 
 Credibility of the Gospel History. 
 Luke If 1-4. 
 
 Divine Authority of Christianity. — Miracles. 
 
 Mark 2: 10-12. 
 
 Divine Authority. — Prophecy. 
 2 Peter 1: 16-21. 
 
 Divine Authority. — Fulfilment of Prophecy, 
 lsa. 41: 21-24. 
 
 Divine Authority. — Propagation of Christianity. 
 1 Cor. 1: 19-21, and 27-29. 
 
308 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 
 
 Divine Authority. — Beneficial Effects of Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 8. 
 
 Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. 
 2 Tim. 3: 14-17. 
 
 Inspiration.— Review of the Argument Derived 
 from External Evidences. 
 1 Cor. 11: 10-13. 
 
 Suitableness of Christianity to the State and 
 Wants of Man. 
 
 1 Cor. 14: 24, 25. 
 
 Excellencies of the Doctrines of Christianity. 
 
 1 John 4: 8-10. 
 
 The Unspotted Purity of the Christian Morals. 
 
 Titus 11: 15. 
 
 The Pre-eminent Character and Conduct of our 
 Lord. 
 
 Mark 7: 37. 
 
 The Tendency of Christianity to Promote in 
 the Highest Degree the Temporal and Spir- 
 itual Happiness of Nations and Individuals. 
 Luke 2: 13, 14. 
 
 The Test to which every one may bring the 
 
EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 309 
 
 Truth of the Christian Religion by humbly 
 submitting to its Directions, and Making a 
 Trial for himself of its Promised Blessings. 
 1 John 5: 10. 
 
 Practical Directions for the Application of the 
 Test to which Men may bring the Christian 
 Revelation. 
 
 Ps. 34: 8. 
 
 The Vanity and Futility of the Objections 
 brought against the Christian Religion. 
 2 Peter 3: 3, 4, 8, 9. 
 
 The Lives and Deaths of Infidels Compared 
 with those of Sincere Christians. 
 Ps. 37: 35-37. 
 
 The Faith with which the Christian Revelation 
 is to be Received. 
 John 5: 9. 
 
 The Sound Interpretation of the "Records of 
 Revelation. 
 
 2 Tim. 2: 15. 
 
 The Universal Obligation which lies upon 
 every Human Being to Obey this Divine 
 Revelation. 
 
 John 3: 18-21. 
 
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310 LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN. 
 
 Conclusion of the Course. 
 
 John 20: 30, 31. And many other signs 
 truly did Jesus in the presence of his dis- 
 ciples, which are not written in this book. 
 But these are written, that ye might believe 
 that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God ; 
 and that believing ye might have life 
 through his name. 
 
 LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN, BY JOEL HA WES, D. D. 
 
 Claims of Society on Young Men. 
 
 1 John 2: 14. I have written unto you, 
 young men, because ye are strong. 
 
 Dangers of Young Men. 
 
 Titus 2: 6. Young men likewise exhort to 
 be sober-minded. 
 
 Importance of Established Principles. 
 
 Dan. 6: 10. Now when Daniel knew that 
 the writing was signed, he went into his 
 house ; and his windows being open in his 
 chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled 
 upon his knees three times a day, and 
 prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as 
 he did aforetime. 
 
 Formation and Importance of Character. 
 
 Prov. 22: 1, A good name is rather to be 
 chosen than great riches, and loving favour 
 rather than silver and gold. 
 
 Religion the Chief Concern. 
 
 Eccl. 12: 13. Let us hear the conclusion of 
 
LECTURES TO YOUTH, 311 
 
 the whole matter : Fear God, and keep his 
 commandments : for this is the whole duty 
 of man. 
 
 On Reading. 
 
 1 Tim. 4: 13. Give attendance to reading. 
 
 LECTURES TO YOUTH, BY W. B. SPRAGUE, D. D. 
 
 Importance of the Period of Youth. 
 
 Prov. 4: 10. Hear, O my son, and receive 
 my sayings \ and the years of thy life shall 
 be many. 
 
 Danger of Evil Company. 
 
 1 Cor. 15: 33. Evil communications cor- 
 rupt good manners. 
 
 Danger of Evil Instruction. 
 
 Prov. 19 : 27. Cease, my son, to hear the 
 instruction that causeth to err from the 
 words of knowledge. 
 
 Danger of a Life of Pleasure. 
 
 Eccl. 11: 9. Rejoice, O young man, in thy 
 youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the 
 days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of 
 thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : 
 but know thou, that for all these things God 
 will bring thee into judgment. 
 
 Regard to the Favour of the World Contrasted 
 with a Regard to the Favour of God. 
 
 1 Thess. 2 : 4. But as we were allowed of 
 
312 LECTURES TO YOUTH. 
 
 God to be put in trust with the gospel, 
 even so we speak 5 not as pleasing men, but 
 God, which trieth our hearts. 
 
 Religion an all-pervading Principle. 
 
 Mat. 13: 8. But other fell into good 
 ground, and brought forth fruit, some an 
 hundredfold, some sixtvfold, some thirty- 
 fold. 
 
 Persuasive to Religion. 
 
 Luke 14 : 17. And sent his servant at sup- 
 per time to say to them that were bidden, 
 Come ; for all things are now ready. 
 
 Excuses for the Neglect of Religion. 
 
 Acts 16: 30. What must I do to he saved 1 
 
 Embracing Religion. 
 
 Acts 16: 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Evidence of Religion. 
 
 Mat. 7: 21. Not every one that saith unto 
 me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- 
 dom of heaven; but he that doeth the will 
 of my Father which is in heaven. 
 
 Profession of Religion. 
 
 Isa. 44 : 5. One shall say, I am the Lord's ; 
 and nnother shall call himself by the name 
 of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with 
 his hand unto the Lord, and surname him- 
 self by the nnme of Israel. 
 
LECTURES ON REVIVALS. 313 
 
 Defence against Temptation. 
 
 Mat. 26:41. Watch and pray, that ye 
 enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed 
 is willing, but the flesh is weak. 
 
 Christian Decision. 
 
 Dan. 3: 18. But if. not, be it known unto 
 thee, O king, that we will not serve thy 
 gods, nor worship the golden image which 
 thou hast set up. 
 
 , — m 
 
 Growth in Grace. 
 
 2 Pet. 3: 18. Grow in grace. 
 
 Doing Good. 
 
 Gal. 6: 10. Let us do good to all men. 
 
 The Young Christian's Course. 
 
 2 Tim. 4: 7. I have finished my course. 
 
 LECTURES ON REVIVALS, BY W. B. SPRAGUE,. D. D.. 
 
 Nature of a Revival. 
 
 Isa. 45: 8. Drop down, ye heavens, from 
 above, and let the skies pour down righte- 
 ousness : let the earth open, and let them 
 bring forth salvation, and let righteousness 
 spring up together ; I the Lord have crea- 
 ted it. 
 
 Defence of Revivals. 
 
 Acts 2: 13. Others mocking said, These 
 men are full of new wine. 
 
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314 LECTURES ON REVIVALS. 
 
 Obstacles to Revivals. 
 
 1 Cor. 9: 12. Lest we should hinder the 
 Gospel of Christ. 
 
 Divine Agency in Revivals. 
 
 Hab. 3: 2. Lord, revive thy work. 
 
 General Means of Producing and Promoting 
 Revivals. 
 
 Phil, f: 27. Striving together for the faith 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 Treatment Due to Awakened Sinners. 
 
 Acts 3: 19. Repent ye, therefore, and be 
 converted. 
 
 Treatment Due to Young Converts. 
 
 2 Cor.. 13: 5. Prove your own selves. 
 
 Evils to be Avoided in Connection with Re- 
 vivals. 
 
 Rom. 14: 16. Let not then your good be 
 evil spoken of. 
 
 Results of Revivals. 
 
 Rev. 5: 15. Blessing, and honour, and glory, 
 and power, be unto him that sitteth upon 
 the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever and 
 ever. 
 
FROM THE REV. ALBERT BARNES, IN NAT. PREACHER. 
 
 REVIVALS OF RELIGION IN CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS. 
 
 The Theory of Revivals. 
 
 Isa. 45: 8. Drop down, ye heavens, from 
 above, and let the skies pour down righte- 
 ousness : let the earth open, and let them 
 bring forth salvation, and let righteousness 
 spring up together. 
 
 Vindication of Revivals and their Influence on 
 this Country. 
 
 Isa. 45: 8. 
 
 The Influence of Revivals in Cities and Large 
 Towns. 
 
 Luke 24: 47. And that repentance and re- 
 mission of sins should be preached in his 
 name among all nations, beginning at Je- 
 rusalem. 
 
 The Desirableness of Revivals. 
 
 Hab. 3: 2. O Lord, revive thy work in the 
 midst of the years, in the midst of the years 
 make known ; in wrath remember mercy. 
 
 The Hinderances to Revivals in Cities and 
 
 Large Towns. 
 
 Luke 19: 41, 42. And when he was come 
 near he beheld the city and wept over it, 
 saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at 
 least in this thy day, the things which be- 
 long to thy peace. 
 
 Mat. 23: 37. O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! 
 thou that killest the prophets, and stonest 
 
316 LECTURES ON REVIVALS. 
 
 them which are sent unto thee, how often 
 would I have gathered thy children to- 
 gether, even as a hen gathereth her chick- 
 ens under her wings, and ye would not. 
 
 The Duties of Christians in Regard to Revivals 
 
 there. 
 
 Acts 17: 16. Now while Paul waited for 
 them at Athens, his spirit was stirred 
 within him when he saw the city wholly 
 given to idolatry. 
 
SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. FROM PRES. DWIGHT. 
 DOCTRINES. 
 
 DOCTRINES OF NATURAL RELIGION. 
 
 THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. 
 
 Direct Proofs of it .... Mark 12: 32. 
 
 Atheistical Objections and Schemes of 
 
 Doctrine Considered . . . Ps. 14: 1. 
 
 Comparative Influence of Atheism and 
 
 Christianity .... Ps. 14: 1. 
 The Unity of God ... 1 Cor. 8: 4. 
 
 THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. 
 
 Eternity and Immutability . . Ps. 102: 24,}27. 
 
 Omnipresence and Omniscience . .. Ps. 139: 1, 12. 
 
 Omnipotence and Independence . Gen. 17: 1. 
 Benevolence as proved by the works of 
 
 Creation and Providence . . 1 John 4: 8. 
 
 Benevolence as Exhibited by Revelation 1 John 4: 8. 
 
 Justice ..... Deut. 32: 4. 
 
 Truth . . . . Ps. 117: 2. 
 
 Mercy . . . . • Vs. 103: 8. 
 
 Wisdom .... 1 Tim. 1: 17. 
 
 The Decrees of God . . . Job 23: 13. 
 
 The Sovereignty of God . . Jer. 10: 23. 
 
 THE WORKS OF GOD. 
 
 Of Creation. 
 
 Air — Starry and Supreme Heavens . Gen. 1: 1. 
 
 Holy Angels — their Rank — Attributes and 
 
 Employments .... Col. 1: 16. 
 Fallen Angels . . Jude 6. 
 
318 
 
 SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 
 
 The Earth .... Gen. 1: 1. 
 
 Man— his Body— Soul . . Gen. 1: 26, 27. 
 
 Soul not Material . . . Gen. 2: 7. 
 
 Soul not a chain of Ideas and Exer- 
 cises .... Gen. 2: 7. 
 The Chief End of Man . . 1 Cor. 10: 31. 
 
 Of Providence. 
 
 The Probation of Man . . Gen. 2: 15-17. 
 
 Temptation and Fall . . . Gen. 3: 1-6. 
 
 Sentence .... Gen. 3: 14-19. 
 
 Depravity of Man : 
 
 Its Universality ; proved from Reve- 
 lation and Facts . . . Rom. 5: 12. 
 From Man's Rejection of the Word of 
 
 God ... . Jer. 8:9. 
 
 Degree of Man's Depravity . . Eccl. 8: 2. 
 
 Its Derivation from Adam . . Rom. 5: 20. 
 
 Man cannot be Justified by Law . Rom. 3: 20. 
 
 DOCTRINES PECULIAR TO THE MEDIATORIAL SYSTEM. 
 
 THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST THE MEDIATOR. 
 
 He is the True and Perfect God. 
 
 The Names of God are given him . Rom. 8: 3, 4. 
 
 The Attributes and Actions of God are 
 
 Ascribed to him . . . Rom. 8: 3, 4. 
 
 He Sustains the Relations and Receives 
 
 the Worship of God . . Rom. 8: 3, 4. 
 
 The Deity of Christ the only Ground of V 
 
 Consistency in the Scheme of|Re- 
 
 demption 
 
 The Jews otherwise not chargeable r>^_ o. o a 
 :*w r» —l. • i> Tk ' *l ? Rom. 8: 3,4. 
 
 with Guilt in his Death . 
 
 Nor can the Prophets and Apostles be 
 
 vindicated from the Sin of leading 
 
 men into Idolatry . 
 Objections answered . . .1 Cor. 3: 20. 
 
 Objections to the Doctrines of Unitarians 1 Cor. 3: 20. 
 Objections to their Manner of conducting 
 
 the Controversy ... 1 Cor. 3: 20. 
 
SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 319 
 
 Jesus Christ is also Man . . Rom. 8: 3. 
 
 The Covenant under which Christ acted j 
 
 that of Redemption . . . Isa. 53: 10. 
 
 THE OFFICES WHICH CHRIST SUSTAINED. 
 HIS PROPHETIC OFFICE. 
 
 His Personal Preaching. 
 
 The Necessity for it . . Luke 24: 19. 
 
 The Things which he taught . John 7: 46. 
 
 The Manner of his Preaching . . John 7: 46. 
 The Consequences of his Preaching . John 7: 46. 
 
 His Preaching by his Jlpostles. 
 The Fact that they preached the Gospel of 
 
 Christ ..... Mark 16: 15, 
 The Necessity of their preaching it } 16, 20. 
 
 The things which they preached > Mark 16: 15, 
 
 The Consequences of their Preaching ) 16, 20. 
 
 Origin, Office and Character of a Priest ) p « .q. . 
 
 Proofs of the Priesthood of Christ ) 
 
 His Character as a Priest. His Holiness. 
 
 In what it was exemplified : 
 
 In his Piety 
 
 In his performance of the duties ) xj ■> n oc 
 , . y , , * - a { neb. 7: 2o. 
 
 which he owed mankind ) 
 
 In his Self Government . . Heb. 7: 26. 
 
 The Importance of his Holiness : 
 
 To the Distinction of his Character *) 
 To enable him to Magnify the Law j 
 
 of God [ Heb. 7: 26. 
 
 To give the necessary efficacy to | 
 his sufferings . . J 
 
 To his setting an example of right- 
 eousness ... 1 John 2: 5. 
 His ATONEMENT— its Nature, Neces- 
 sity and Reality . . . Rom. 3:24-26. 
 
320 SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 
 
 The Manner and Extent of the Atone- 
 ment .... Rom. 3:24-26. 
 Objections Answered . . Rom. 3: 24-26. 
 Christ's Intercession .. . Heb. 7: 24, 25. 
 Christ's Kingly Office ,. ,. . Eph. 1: 20-22. 
 The Miracles of Christ . . Acts 2: 22. 
 The Resurrection of Christ . . Acts 3: 15. 
 Amiableness of Christ in publishing the 
 
 Gospel . . . . Isa. 52: 7. 
 
 THE CONSEQUENCES OFCHRISt's MEDIATION. 
 JUSTIFICATION. 
 
 The Nature : or in what it consists j 
 
 The Source : the Free Grace of God \ 
 
 The Means : Faith in Christ ) 
 
 The Duty of Believing in him ) 
 
 Nature of Faith . . . Rom. 3: 28. 
 
 Influence of Faith in our Justification . Rom. 3: 28. 
 
 Reconciliation of Paul and James ) y 0-04 
 
 Influence of Works in our Justification ) 
 
 Justification by Faith does not lessen the 
 
 Obligations or Motives to Obedience Rom. 3: 31. 
 
 Rom. 3: 24. 
 Rom. 3: 28. 
 
 REGENERATION. 
 
 The Agent in effecting it : ) m- o. k 
 
 The Holy Ghost : his Character ) 
 
 Testimonies to the Doctrine of the Trin- 
 ity from the Ancient Christians, Jews 
 and Heathen . . . . Isa. 48: 16. 
 
 Agency of the Holy Ghost in Regenera- 
 tion ..... Titus 3: 5. 
 
 Necessity of Regeneration ) John 3* 3 
 
 Its Reality ) 
 
 Its Nature .... John 3: 3. 
 
 Its Antecedents .... Acts 16: 29,30. 
 
 Its Attendants, generally considered Eph. 4: 22-24. 
 
 Faith — Repentance . . . Mat. 27: 3-5. 
 
 Love — its nature, evidence of its existence Gal. 5: 22. 
 
 Consistency of Benevolence with pro- 
 viding peculiarly for our own . 1 Tim. 5: 8. 
 
SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 321 
 
 Its Consistency with seeking our own Sal- 
 vation ..... Rom. 2. 6, 7. 
 Brotherly Love . . . John 13: 34. 
 
 Consequences of Regeneration. 
 Adoption .... 1 John 3: 2. 
 
 Sanctification . . . .1 Thess. 5: 23. 
 
 Peace of Conscience . . John 14: 27. 
 
 Joy in the Holy Ghost . ' . . Rom. 14: 7. 
 
 Increase of Grace . . . Prov. 4: 18. 
 
 Perseverance unto the end . . Prov. 4: 18. 
 
 Evidences of Regeneration. 
 What are not evidences . . .2 Cor. 13: 5. 
 
 What are evidences . . 2 Cor. 13: 5. 
 
 Difficulty of applying them to ourselves 2 Cor. 13: 5. 
 
 DUTIES. 
 
 DITTIES OF NATURAL RELIGION. 
 
 Character of the Law of God : summed 
 
 up in the Two Great Commandments Ps. 19: 7. 
 
 The First Great Commandment. 
 Love to God .... Mark 12:28,30. 
 Reverence of God . . .Job 28: 28. 
 
 Humility . . . . .1 Peter 5: 5. 
 
 Resignation .... Luke 22:41,42. 
 
 The Second Great Commandment. 
 What it Requires . . . Mark 12: 31. 
 
 Its effects on Personal Happiness . Acts 20: 35. 
 
 Its Effects on Public Happiness . Acts 20: 35. 
 
 Its Foundation— Utility . . . Acts 20: 35. 
 
 The Law of God summed up in the 
 
 DECALOGUE : 
 
 The First Commandment Ex. 20: 3. 
 
 The Second Commandment Ex. 20: 4-6. 
 
 The Third Commandment : 
 
 Nature of Profaneness . . . Ex. 20: 7. 
 
 Guilt of Profaneness . . Ex. 20: 7. 
 
 Danger of Profaneness . . . Ex. 20: 7. 
 
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322 
 
 SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 
 
 The Fourth Commandment. 
 Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath Ex. 20: 8-11. 
 
 How the Sabbath is to be observed Isa. 58: 13, 14. 
 
 Reflections on the Sabbath . . Ex. 20: 11. 
 
 The Fifth Commandment. 
 Duty of Children 
 
 Duty of Parents .... 
 Duty of Rulers 
 Duty of Subjects 
 
 Ex. 20: 12. 
 Ex. 20: 12. 
 Ex. 20: 12. 
 Ex. 20: 12. 
 
 The Sixth Commandment. 
 
 
 Killing- when lawful — Murder 
 Duelling .... 
 Suicide .... 
 Drunkenness 
 
 Ex. 20: 13. 
 Ex. 20: 13. 
 Ex. 20: 13. 
 Ex. 20: 13. 
 
 The Seventh Commandment 
 
 . 
 
 Origin, Nature and Benefits of Marriage 
 Lewdness .... 
 Polygamy ) 
 Divorce $ 
 
 Ex. 20: U. 
 Ex. 20: 14.. 
 
 Mat. 19: 3-11. 
 
 The Eighth Commandment. 
 
 Idleness ) 
 
 Prodigality $ 
 
 Fraud .... 
 
 Gaming .... 
 
 Ex. 20: 15. 
 
 Ex. 20: 15. 
 Ex. 20: 15. 
 
 The Ninth Commandment. 
 
 
 Nature and Importance of Truth 
 Nature and Causes of Lying . 
 Mischiefs and Preventives of Lying 
 Slander . ... 
 
 Ex. 20: 16. 
 Ex. 20: 16. 
 Ex. 20: 16. 
 Ex. 20: 16. 
 
 The Tenth Commandment. 
 Contentment . . . Exodus 20: 17. 
 Charity .... 1 Tim.6: 17-19, 
 Avarice .... 1 Tim. 6: 9, 10. 
 Ambition .... Rom. 12: 16. 
 Man's Inability to obey the Law of God 
 
 Considered .... Rom. 8: 17. 
 
SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 
 
 323 
 
 DUTIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 
 
 Man Restored to the Spirit of Obedience 
 
 by Faith and Repentance . . Acts 20, 21. 
 
 Means of Restoration j or Means of Grace : 
 Proofs that there are such means . 1 Cor. 4: 15. 
 
 What they are, and their Influence . 1 Cor. 4: 15. 
 
 Objections Answered ... 1 Cor. 4: 15. 
 
 Ordinary Means of Grace. 
 
 Hearing the Word — Prayer . . Luke 8: 18. 
 
 The Nature, Seasons, and Obliga- 
 tions of Prayer . . .1 Thess. 5: 17. 
 
 The Usefulness of Prayer to Indi- 
 viduals . . . .1 Thess. 5: 17. 
 
 The Usefulness of Prayer to Fam- 
 ilies .... Eph. 6: 10. 
 
 The Usefulness of Prayer to Com- 
 munities .... Eph. 6: 10. 
 
 Efficacy of Prayer . . . Eph. 6: 10. 
 
 Encouragement to Prayer . . Eph. 6: 10. 
 
 Objections to Prayer considered . Job 21: 15. 
 
 Forms of Prayer . . ~. Mat. 6: 9-13. 
 
 Intercourse \^th Religious Men . Prov. 13: 20. 
 
 Religious Meditation. 
 
 Religious Education of Children : 
 
 Duty of Educating Children Re- 
 ligiously . . Prov. 22: 6. 
 Manner in which it is to be done : 
 Motives to the Duty . Prov. 22: 6. 
 
 Extraordinary Means of Grace. 
 
 Who are to use them ; or the Church : 
 
 Ordinary Members ; their Character 2 Cor. 6: 14. 
 Officers of the Church : 
 Ministers : who are they 1 
 Duties of Ministers j — 
 
 Preaching : 
 
 End of Preaching 
 
 Nature of Preaching 
 
 Subjects of Preaching 
 
 Manner of Preaching 
 
 1 Pet. 5: 1-3. 
 
 Mat. 28: 19. 
 
324 SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY. 
 
 Study : 
 
 Conducting the Ordinances of 
 
 Divine Worship 
 Presiding over and directing \ 1 Thess. 3: 2. 
 
 the Discipline of the Church 
 Instructing the Flock in Private ; 
 Deacons . . . Acts 6: 1-6. 
 
 What the Extraordinary Means of Grace 
 
 are : 
 Baptism — Its Reality and Intention J 
 
 Subjects of Baptism [. Mat. 28: 19. ; 
 
 Mode )' 
 
 Lord's Supper — Its Nature and Design, ) 
 
 and Qualification of [ Mark 14: 22-25. 
 Communicants ) 
 
 Dispositions with which ^ 
 
 to be attended and/ Mark 14: 22 .25. 
 motives to the attend- i 
 ance ' 
 
 Discipline of the Church . . Mat.18: 15-18. 
 
 DISPENSATIONS CONSEQUENT 6^THE STATE 
 OF PROBATION. 
 
 Death Ps. 90: 3. 
 
 Immediate Consequences . Eccl. 12: 7. 
 
 Remoter Consequences : 
 
 Resurrection of the Body . 1 Cor. 15: 16. 
 
 Final Judgment . . 2 Peter 3: 10. 
 
 Punishment of the Wicked : 
 
 Its Nature . . 2 Peter 2: 12. 
 
 Its Duration . . Mat. 25: 46. 
 
 Rewards of the Righteous : 
 
 New Creation . . 2 Peter 3: 1 3. 
 
 Happiness of Heaven . Rev. 21: 1-3. 
 
 Conclusion .... Prov. 8: 6. 
 
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