CONTENTS. Some account of the Life and Character of the Author. HIS birth and education, He is ordained Minister at Luse, The contemplative part of it, The great principle that animated him in both, PAGE. His character as a private Christian, a minister, &e. SERMON I. The Sins of Men not chargeable on God. JAMES i. 13. Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. SERMON II. Of Glorying in the Cross of Christ. 25 GAL. vi. 14.-God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 75 SERMON III. Of God's Chief Mercy. ROM. viii. 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things. ESSAY On prejudices against the Gospel. 154 Essay on Christian Piety. III. Proofs that acknowledgment of redemption is inclu- ded in that faith in Christ which the gospel re- XIII. As a satisfying relief from our greatest fears, and satisfying foundation of hope. XIV. The discovery of God's glory in redemption is a new additional ingredient of the happiness of the re- Essay on the Scripture-Doctrine of Divine Sect. I. The scripture evidences of the doctrine of grace. 230 Sect. II. The differences between the work of the Holy Sect. IV. Of divine supernatural operations in general, and Sect. V. Of the distinguishing and peculiar excellencies of the grace of divine love, and of the lively and vigo- Of the difference between the will and the affections. Of being active to obtain devout affections. Great disparity in affections produced by the same means. 336, The sufficiency of means to produce several good affec- Difference between common good affections, and that self- 339 Force of custom makes some abuses of words dangerous. 361 Bodily constitution, its influence no just objection to the 394 |