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CONTENTS.

SERMONS ON SEVERAL IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.

SERM.

Page

I. & II. Many made righteous by the obedience of one,

III. The ministry of reconciliation,

5, 11

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Remarks on Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and

Use of History,

Considerations on the prevailing custom of visiting on Sundays,

A Treatise on the Religious Education of Daughters,

Preface to Burnham's Pious Memorials,

Letter on Traill's Works,

Promises to be pasted on Bibles,

Letter to Richard Nash, Esq.

Rules and Orders of the Assembly for Christian Improvement,

Rules and Orders of a Religious Society at Truro in Cornwall,

Hints for promoting Religion,

Mr Hervey's Preface to Jenks's Meditations,

156

198

206

220

225

227

229

234

238

249

253

A COLLECTION OF RELIGIOUS LETTERS.

The Preface, containing some further anecdotes of the Author,
LET. 1. On human frailty, and the excellency of virtue,

259

268

2. On the advantage of afflictions,

3. On the last day, pride, and improvement of the com-

munion,

7. The character and duty of a gospel minister,

289

8. On attending public worship, and the uncertainty of

LET. 12. On going to a meeting of the clergy,

Page 305

13. On the prospect of plenty, and distance from relations, 307

14. On preaching the fulness of Christ,

308

15. On the vanity of life,

310

16. Thoughts on different subjects,

312

17. On the nature and danger of worldly prosperity,

313

22. The advantage of religious conversation,

342

23. Thoughts on some of the Thirty-nine Articles,

343

24. On the personality and divinity of the Holy Ghost,

358

25. Thoughts on some books,

366

26. Proofs of the divinity of Christ,

367

27. On the Holy Spirit's being the object of divine wor-

ship,

376

28. On the imputation of Adam's first sin,

377

SERMONS

ON

SEVERAL IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.

VOL. V.