ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Sermons which follow were all preached in St. Mary's Parish; but in preparing them for publication, a few words or sentences have in several places been added, which will be found to express more of private or personal opinion than it was expedient to introduce into the instruction delivered in Church to a parochial congregation. Such introduction, however, seems unobjectionable, in the case of compositions which are detached from the sacred place and service to which they once belonged, and submitted to the reason and judgment of the general reader.

Littlemore,

Nov. 25, 1843.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

THE WORK OF THE CHRISTIAN.

Septuagesima.

PSALM Civ. 23.-"Man goeth forth to his work and to his

labour until the evening."

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SERMON II.

SAINTLINESS NOT FORFEITED BY THE PENITENT.

Sexagesima.

2 COR. xii. 11.-"In nothing am I behind the very chiefest

Apostles, though I be nothing."

SERMON III.

OUR LORD'S LAST SUPPER AND HIS FIRST.

Quinquagesima.

LUKE Xxii. 15.-" And He said unto them, With desire I have

desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer."

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SERMON IV.

DANGERS TO THE PENITENT.

Lent.

PSALM XXVII. 16.-"O tarry thou the Lord's leisure; be strong

and He shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust

in the Lord."

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SERMON V.

THE THREE OFFICES OF CHRIST.

Easter.

Psalm xlv. 3, 4.—“ Full of grace are Thy lips, because God

hath blessed Thee for ever. Gird Thee with Thy sword

upon Thy thigh, O Thou most mighty, according to Thy

worship and renown."

SERMON VI.

FAITH AND EXPERIENCE.

1 SAM. xvi. 7.-"The Lord seeth not as man seeth

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for man

looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh

on the heart."

SERMON VII.

FAITH AND THE WORLD. 1

PROV. xi. 21.—“Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall

not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be

delivered."

SERMON VIII.

INDULGENCE IN RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES.

Rogation Sunday.

JUDE 12.-"These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they

feast with you, feeding themselves without fear."

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THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD.

GAL. iv. 9.-"After that ye have known God, or rather are

known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly

elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" 93

SERMON IX.

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SERMON X.

CONNEXION BETWEEN PERSONAL AND PUBLIC

IMPROVEMENT.

Whitsuntide.

SERMON XI.

CHRISTIAN NOBLENESS.

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ISAIAH XI. 9.-"The earth shall be full of the knowledge of

the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."

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Whitsuntide.

JOHN XIV. 18, 19.-"I will not leave you comfortless: I will

come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me

no more; but ye see Me."

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SERMON XII.

JOSHUA A TYPE OF CHRIST AND HIS FOLLOWERS.

First Sunday after Trinity.

JOSHUA Xxiii. 1.—" And it came to pass a long time after that

the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies

round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in

age."

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ISAIAH Xxxvii. 31.-" The remnant that is escaped of the house

of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit

upward."

SERMON XIII.

ELISHA A TYPE OF CHRIST AND HIS FOLLOWERS.

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.

2 KINGS ii. 9.—“ And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double

portion of thy spirit be upon me.”

SERMON XIV.

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH A CONTINUATION OF THE

JEWISH.

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