DELIVERED IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,

BY

JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY,

TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND.

PHILADELPHIA:

KAY & BROTHER-122 CHESNUT STREET.

1838.

C8344.425.20

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by Edward Hopper, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

J. RICHARDS, PRINTER.

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NOTE.

In reporting the following Discourses, great care has been taken to preserve the precise language in which they were delivered; but it is due to their distinguished author, to state,, that they have not had the benefit of his revision, having been published without his knowledge.

SERMON I.

DELIVERED AT ARCH STREET MEETING-HOUSE, FIRSTDAY EVENING, SECOND MONTH, FOURTH, 1838.

"Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand before you whole." "And his name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know; yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all."

Such, or nearly such, was the language of the apostle Peter, in company with his anointed brother John, when he was examined, before the rulers of the Jews, touching the notable miracle which they had been instrumental in performing at the beautiful gate of the temple. And it seems to me, that it may be worthy of remark, that this remarkable miracle was distinguished like the other miracles of the New Testament, therein described, by certain circumstances which greatly enhance the value of the evidence thereof, as a credential of the divine authority