SERMONS ON HISTORICAL SUBJECTS.

CONTENTS.

I.

JACOB'S DREAM ; OR, THE SOLUTION OF A

MYSTERY

1

“ And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the

top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and

descending on it."

GEN. xxviii. 12.

II.

THE SOWER AND THE SEED; OR, DIFFERENT

CLASSES OF HEARERS

18

“ And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a

sower went forth to sow;" fc., &c.

Matt. xiii. 3—9, 18—23.

III.

THE BIOGRAPHY OF ENOCH; OR, A GLORIOUS

LIFE AND A GLORIOUS END .

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“ And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took

him,"

GEN. v. 24.

IV.

THE PENITENT THIEF; OR, THE POWER OF

CHRIST'S SALVATION

47

“ And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into

[in] thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

LUKE xxiii. 42, 43.