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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
SERMON I.—ORIGIN OF MAN.
AND HATH MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS OF MEN, FOR TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF
THE EARTH, AND HATH DETERMINED THE TIME BEFORE APPOINTED, AND THE BOUNDS
OF THEIR HABITATION. ACTS, XVII. 26.
SERMON II.- DIGNITY OF MAN.
SHOW THYSELF A MAN.-1 KINGS, II. 2..
SERMON III.- EVIL EFFECTS OF SIN.
BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE. PROVERBS, XIV. 34.
SERMON IV.-EXAMPLE.
BUT TO MAKE OURSELVES AN ENSAMPLE UNTO YOU TO FOLLOW US.-2 THESS. III. 9. . . .
SERMON V.-SINFUL CUSTOMS.
THE LORD PARDON THY SERVANT IN THIS THING.-2 KINGS, v. 18.
SERMON VI.— NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
AND JUDAH AND ISRAEL DWELT SAFELY, EVERY MAN UNDER HIS VINE, AND UNDER HIS
FIG-TREE, FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA, ALL THE DAYS OF SOLOMON.-1 KINGS,
IV. 25.
SERMON VII.-PRAYER FOR THE DEFEAT OF THOSE WHO
ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT GOOD GOVERNMENT.
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AND DAVID SAID, O LORD, I PRAY THEE, TURN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL INTO FOOL-
ISHNESS.-2 SAMUEL, XV. 31..
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SERMON VIII. — DANIEL.
SO THIS DANIEL PROSPERED IN THE REIGN OF DARIUS, AND IN THE REIGN OF CYRUS
THE PERSIAN. DANIEL, VI. 28..
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SERMON IX. — OBEDIENCE TO CIVIL MAGISTRATES.
PUT THEM IN MIND TO BE SUBJECT TO PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, TO OBEY MAGIS-
TRATES, TO BE READY TO EVERY GOOD WORK. — TITUS, III. 1. .
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SERMON X.- GREAT MEN THE SERVANTS OF GOD.
FOR JACOB MY SERVANT'S SAKE, AND ISRAEL MINE ELECT, I HAVE EVEN CALLED THEE
BY THY NAME; I HAVE SURNAMED THEE, THOUGH THOU HAST NOT KNOWN ME.
I AM THE LORD AND THERE IS NONE ELSE, THERE IS NO GOD BESIDE ME; I GIRDED
THEE, THOUGH THOU HAST NOT KNOWN ME.-ISAIAH, XIV. 4. 5. .
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SERMON XI.-LAMENTATION FOR WASHINGTON.
HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN, AND THE WEAPONS OF WAR PERISHED!-2 SAMUEL, 1. 27.. 158
SERMON XII. — GOD NEVER FORSAKES HIS PEOPLE.
FOR THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE, FOR HIS GREAT NAME'S SAKE: BECAUSE
IT HATH PLEASED THE LORD TO MAKE YOU HIS PEOPLE.1 SAMUEL, XII. 22.
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SERMON XIII.-JEROBOAM.
AND THEY MADE JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT KING; AND JEROBOAM DRAVE ISRAEL
FROM FOLLOWING THE LORD.2 KINGS, XVII. 21. .
SERMON XIV.-FALSE ZEAL.
THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU, BUT NOT WELL. GAL. IV. 17..
SERMON XV. — AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
THIS DAY SHALL BE UNTO YOU FOR A MEMORIAL.EX. XII. 14. . .
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SERMON XVI. — RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTERS USEFUL TO CIVIL
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SOCIETY.
BUT JEHOIADA WAXED OLD, AND WAS FULL OF DAYS WHEN HE DIED; AN HUNDRED AND
THIRTY YEARS OLD WAS HE WHEN HE DIED. AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CITY
OF DAVID AMONG THE KINGS, BECAUSE HE HAD DONE GOOD IN ISRAEL, BOTH TOWARD
GOD, AND TOWARD HIS HOUSE.-2 CHRON. XXIV. 15, 16. . .
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SERMON XVII.—PUBLIC SPIRIT.
FOR DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION BY THE WILL OF GOD, FELL
ON SLEEP. ACTS, XIII. 36.
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SERMON XVIII.-RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.
AND THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAUL, SHALL JONATHAN DIE, WHO HATH WROUGHT THIS
GREAT SALVATION IN ISRAEL? GOD FORBID; AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE SHALL
NOT ONE HAIR OF HIS HEAD FALL TO THE GROUND; FOR HE HATH WROUGHT WITH
GOD THIS DAY. SO THE PEOPLE RESCUED JONATHAN, THAT HE DIED NOT.-1 SAM.
XIV. 45
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SERMON XIX.-A CHOICE OF THEIR RULERS, THE PRIVILEGE
OF THE PEOPLE.
AND THEIR NOBLES SHALL BE OF THEMSELVES, AND THEIR GOVERNOR SHALL PROCEED
FROM THE MIDST OF THEM. JEREMIAH, XXX. 21..
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SERMON XX.-THE INFLUENCE OF A GOOD HEART UPON THE
CONDUCT OF MEN.
A WISE MAN'S HEART IS AT HIS RIGHT HAND. - ECCLES. X. 2..
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SERMON XXI.-REVOLUTION AND REFORMATION.
I WILL OVERTURN, OVERTURN, OVERTURN IT; AND IT SHALL BE NO MORE, UNTIL HE
COME WHOSE RIGHT IT IS; AND I WILL GIVE IT HIM. EZEK. XXI. 27..
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SERMON XXII.- GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO IMPROVE THEIR
PRIVILEGES.
FOR UNTO EVERY ONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN, AND HE SHALL HAVE ABUNDANCE.—
MATT. XXV. 29.
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SERMON XXIII.-NEW ENGLAND'S SECOND CENTURY.
AND WHAT ONE NATION IN THE EARTH IS LIKE THY PEOPLE, EVEN LIKE ISRAEL, WHOM
GOD WENT TO REDEEM FOR A PEOPLE TO HIMSELF, AND TO MAKE HIM A NAME, AND
TO DO FOR YOU GREAT THINGS, AND TERRIBLE, FOR THY LAND, BEFORE THY PEO-
PLE, WHICH THOU REDEEMEDST TO THEE FROM EGYPT, FROM THE NATIONS AND
THEIR GODS?-2 SAMUEL, VII. 23.. . 323
SERMON XXIV.- THE BLESSING OF GOD UPON THOSE WHO
HONOR HIS INSTITUTIONS.
AND THE ARK OF GOD REMAINED WITH THE FAMILY OF OBED-EDOM, IN HIS HOUSE THREE
MONTHS, AND THE LORD BLESSED THE HOUSE OF OBED-EDOM, AND ALL THAT HE
HAD.1 CHRONICLES, XII. 14.
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SERMON XXV. - THE SIN OF FOLLOWING THE MULTITUDE TO
DO EVIL.
THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL.- EXODUS, XXIII. 2.
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SERMON XXVI.- THE DISPLEASURE OF GOD WITH ALL WHO
ARE PLEASED WITH SIN.
WHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE
WORTHY OF DEATH; NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT
DO THEM. ROMANS, I. 32.
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SERMON XXVII.—THE DEPARTURE OF A PEOPLE FROM GOD.
WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLI-
DING? THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, THEY REFUSE TO RETURN.-JER. VIII. 5.
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SERMON XXVIII.-SACRED MUSIC.
SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES IN PSALMS, AND HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS; SINGING AND
MAKING MELODY IN YOUR HEART TO THE LORD. - EPHESIANS, v. 19. .
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SERMON XXIX.-SAMUEL.
AND SAMUEL GREW, AND THE LORD WAS WITH HIM. 1 SAMUEL, III. 19.
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SERMON XXX.-THE BLINDNESS OF A PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN
DEGENERACY.
YEA, GRAY HAIRS ARE HERE AND THERE UPON HIM, YET HE KNOWETH NOT.-HOSEA, VII. 9.. 415
SERMON XXXI.-SUSPENSION AND INFLICTION OF JUDGMENTS.
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, ALL THESE THINGS SHALL COME UPON THIS GENERATION. —
MATT. XXIII. 36.
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SERMON XXXII.—THE USEFULNESS OF GOOD MEN.
FOR HE LOVETH OUR NATION, AND HE HATH BUILT US A SYNAGOGUE.- LUKE, VII. 5. . . 441
SERMON XXXIII.-DUTY OF A PROSPEROUS NATION.
THUS SAITH THE LORD, LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, NEITHER LET
THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT; LET NOT THE RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS
RICHES; BUT LET HIM THAT GLORIETH, GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDETH
AND KNOWETH ME, THAT I AM THE LORD WHICH EXERCISE LOVING KINDNESS, JUDG-
MENT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH; FOR IN THESE THINGS I DELIGHT SAITH
THE LORD.-JER. IX. 23, 24.
SERMON XXXIV. -THE GUILT OF PROFANENESS.
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN; FOR THE LORD WILL
NOT HOLD HIM GUILTLESS THAT TAKETH HIS NAME IN VAIN. EXODUS, XX. 7.
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SERMON XXXV. -PARENTAL GOVERNMENT OF A FAMILY.
FOR I KNOW HIM THAT HE WILL COMMAND HIS CHILDREN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER
HIM, AND THEY SHALL KEEP THE WAY OF THE LORD, TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT;
THAT THE LORD MAY BRING UPON ABRAHAM THAT WHICH HE HATH SPOKEN OF
HIM. GENESIS, XVIII. 19. . .
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SERMON XXXVI.-PIETY A PECULIAR ORNAMENT TO THE AGED.
THE HOARY HEAD IS A CROWN OF GLORY, IF IT BE FOUND IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUS-
NESS. PROV. x. 31.
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