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CONTENTS

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THE SECOND VOLUME.

SERMONS

FOR THE WINTER HALF-YEAR-CONTINUED.

VIII.-Apples of Sodom; or, the Fruits of Sin

ROMANS VI. 21.—What fruit had ye then in those things

whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things

is death.

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IX.-The good and evil Tongue.-Of Slander and Flattery.-

The Duties of the Tongue.

EPHESIANS IV. 29.-Let no corrupt communication pro-

ceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use

of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. . 60

TWENTY-SEVEN SERMONS,

BEING FOR THE SUMMER HALF-YEAR.

I.-Whitsunday.-Of the Spirit of Grace.

ROMANS VIII. 9, 10.-But ye are not in the flesh, but in

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the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none

of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead, because

of sin; but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness.

II. The descending and entailed Curse cut off.

EXODUS XX. 5, 6.-I the Lord thy God am a jealous

God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children

unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate

me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love

me, and keep my commandments.

III.-The Invalidity of a late or death-bed Repentance.

JEREMIAH XIII. 16.—Give glory to the Lord your God,

before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on

the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light (or, lest

while ye look for light), he shall turn it into the shadow

of death, and make it gross darkness.

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IV. The Deceitfulness of the Heart.

JEREMIAH XVII. 9.-The heart is deceitful above all

things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? .

V. The Faith and Patience of the Saints; or, the righteous

Cause oppressed.

1 PETER IV. 17, 18.-For the time is come that judg-

ment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin

at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the

gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved,

where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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VI.-The Mercy of the Divine Judgments; or, God's Method

in curing Sinners.

ROMANS II. 4.-Despisest thou the riches of his good-

ness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing

that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

VII.-Of Growth in Grace, with its proper Instruments and

Signs.

2 PETER III. 18.—But grow in grace, and in the know-

lege of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory, both now

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and for ever.

Amen.

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