CONTENTS.

IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.

SERMON I.

For we know in part

PART THE FIRST.

1 Cor. xiii. 9.

SERMON II.

IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.

For we know in part

PART THE SECOND.

1 Cor. xiii. 9.

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SERMON III.

THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD EXTENDING TO ALL NA-

TURAL EVENTS.

Isaiah, xlv. 7.

1 form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,

and create evil: I, the Lord, do all these things. 61

SERMON IV.

VOLUNTARY ACTIONS, AND THEIR

EVENTS, FOREKNOWN AND APPOINTED BY GOD.

Proverbs, xvi. 9.

A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth

his steps

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CONSEQUENT

SERMON V.

MORAL AGENCY CONSISTENT WITH DIVINE FORE-

KNOWLEDGE.

Rom. ix. 19, 20.

Thou wilt say unto me, Why doth he yet find fault, for

who hath resisted his will? Nay, but, O man, who

art thou that repliest against God?

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SERMON VI.

THE PLAN OF PROVIDENCE CONDUCTED BY GENE-

RAL LAWS, WITHOUT OCCASIONAL DEVIATIONS.

Rom. xi. 36.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things :

to whom be glory for ever.

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SERMON VII.

OBJECTIONS STATED AND ANSWERED.

Rom. ix. 14.

What shall we say, then? is there unrighteousness with

God? God forbid

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SERMON VIII.

THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD OVERRULING THE SOCIAL

STATE OF MAN.

Job, xii. 23.

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: He en-

largeth the nations, and straiteneth them again 201

SERMON IX.

THE REPORT MADE BY FESTUS TO AGRIPPA OF THE

CHARGE AGAINST THE APOSTLE PAUL.

Acts, xxv. 18, 19.

Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought

no accusation of such things as I supposed; but had

certain questions against him of their own superstition

(religion), and of one Jesus who was dead, whom Paul

affirmed to be alive

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SERMON X.

OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CHARACTER AND CRIME

OF JUDAS.

PART THE FIRST.

Matthew, xxvii. 3.

Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he

was condemned, repented himself

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SERMON XI.

REFLECTIONS UPON THE CHARACTER AND CRIME OF

SERMON XIII.

JUDAS.

PART THE SECOND.

Matthew, xxvii. 3.

Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he

was condemned, repented himself

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REFLECTIONS UPON THE

SERMON XII.

REFLECTIONS UPON THE CHARACTER AND THE DES-

TINY OF ESAU.

Heb. xii. 16, 17.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as

Esau,

who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For

ye know how that afterward, when he would have in-

herited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no

place of repentance, though he sought it carefully

with tears

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SEASONS.

VICISSITUDES OF THE

OCCASIONED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY PREVALENCE OF FROST AND

FOG IN THE COMMENCEMENT OF A. D. 1814.

Gen. viii. 22.

While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and

cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and

night, shall not cease

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SERMON XIV.

THE UNITY OF GOD ASSERTED AND PROVED.

Mark, xii. 32.

There is one God, and there is none other but He

SERMON XV.

THE BLESSING OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE.

1 Peter, iii. 16.

SERMON XVI.

THE EVILS OF A MISINFORMED AND AN ACCUSING

CONSCIENCE.

Hebrews, x. 22.

Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience 392 v

SERMON XVII.

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THE SELF-EXISTENCE, THE ETERNITY, AND THE

IMMUTABILITY OF GOD.

Exodus, iii. 14.

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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

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SERMON XVIII.

THE FALL OF BABYLON, THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF

PROPHECY.

Isaiah, xiii. 19.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the

Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew

Sodom and Gomorrah

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SERMON XIX.

CESSATION OF MIRACULOUS POWERS AFTER THE

AGE OF THE APOSTLES.

A SERMON FOR WHITSUNDAY.

Matt. xxviii. 20.

And, lo! I am with you alway, even to the end of the

world

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