BY

HUGH BLAIR, D.D. F.R.S. Ed.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH,

AND

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND;

AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

1812.

C1118.1.11

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1875, March 22.
Bequest of

James Walker, D.D., L. L. D.
(6.2.1814.)
President of Harr. Univ.
Vol. I. VJ

CONTENTS

THE FIRST VOLUME.

SERMON I.

On the Union of Piety and Morality.

ACTS, X. 4. Thy prayers and thine alms

are come up for a memorial before God.

SERMON

Page I

II.

On the Influence of Religion upon

Adversity.

PSALM XXVII. 5. In the time of trouble, be

shall hide me in his pavilion; in the secret

of his tabernacle shall be hide me; he shall

set me up upon a rock.

SERMON

III.

On the Influence of Religion upon

Prosperity.

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PSALM i. 3. He shall be like a tree planted

by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth