CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 4 41 Barahona Schna SERMON IV. THE GRAND DIRECTION AND PROMISE OF THE GOSPEL, Acts, xvi. 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Page 47 SERMON V. THE MERCY AND JUSTICE OF GOD. EZEKIEL, xxxiii. 17. 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 64 ye die? SERMON VI. THE PRESENT TIME THE MOST CONVENIENT FOR REPENTANCE. Acts, xxiv. 25. Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season I will call for thee. 80 SERMON VII. DESCRIPTION AND DANGER OF CONVICTION WHEN NOT FOLLOWED BY CONVERSION. LUKE, xi. 24, 25, 26. When the Unclean Spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest : and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out : and when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in and dwell there ; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Page 96 SERMON VIII. THE BROKEN HEART, AN ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE. Psalm li. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 112 SERMON IX. DANGER OF INTEMPERANCE AND WORLDLY. MINDEDNESS. LUKE, xxi. 24. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life ; and so that day come upon you unawares. 127 SERMON X. REBECCA'S IMPOSITION ON ISAAC, CONSIDERED. GENESIS, xxvii. 13. And his Mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my Son; only obey 143 my voice. SERMON XI. ST. PAUL, A PATTERN OF THE LONG-SUFFERING OF GOD. 1 TIMOTHY, i. 16. Howbeit for this cause I ob tained mercy : that in me first, Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them, which should hereafter behieve on him to life everlasting Page 158 SERMON XII. THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. LUKE xvi. 8. For the Children of this world are in their generation wiser than the Children of light. 174 SERMON XIII. TENDENCY OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES TO PRO. DUCE TRUE CONTENTMENT. PHILIPPIANS, iv. 11, 12. I have learned in whatso ever state I am therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 189 SERMON XIV. JESUS ENDURING THE CROSS AND DESPIŠING THE SHAME. HEBREWS, xii. 2. Who, for the Joy that was set before Him, endured the Cross, despising the Shame. 207 SERMON XY. THE OBJECT AND EFFECT OF CHRISTIAN HOPE. Į John, iii. 3. And every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Page 224 SERMON XVI. ON THE OFFICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THE DANGER OF GRIEVING HIM. EPHESIANS, iy. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye .are sealed unto the day of Redemption. 239 SERMON XVII. ON THE RECIPROCAL DUTIES OF MINISTERS AND PEOPLE. : HEBREWS, xiii. 17. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : 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. 256 SERMON XVIII. CONVERSION TO GOD A REAL CHANGE OF HEART. ISAIAH, Ixv. I. I am sought of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that sought me not : I said, Behold me, Behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 272 |