CONTENTS.

I

SERMON

I.

The Duty of Charity stated and enforced.

PROV. III. 27.

With-hold not Good from them to whom it

is due, when it is in the Power of thine

Hands to do it.
pag. I

SERMON

II.

The Chriftian Life a progreffive State.

PROV. IV. 18.

The Path of the fuft is as the Shining

Light; fhining more and more unto the

perfect Day.

P. 32

SERMON III.

National Wickedness in Danger of pro-

voking National Judgments.

ISAIAH V. 4, 5.

What could have been done more for my

Vineyard, that I have not done in it?

Wherefore when I looked for Grapes,

brought it forth wild Grapes?

And

And now, go to; I will tell you what 1

will do to my Vineyard: I will take a-

way the Hedge thereof, and it shall be

eaten up;
and break down the Wall

thereof, and it shall be troden down.

p. 69

THREE LETTERS to a Friend on the

Satisfaction of Chrift: Wherein are oc-

cafionally confidered, The Infinity of the

Deity, bis Eternity, Prefcience, &c.

The firft Letter, &c.

P. 3

The Second LETTER.

P. 42

The third LETTER.

the Author's Sermons.

P. 101

The fourth LETTER, to the Reverend

T. H. relating to a Paffage in one of

P. 169

The fifth LETTER, wrote, under a feign-

ed Name, to a Friend in a dangerous Fit

of Sickness.
p. 177

An ESSAY on refined and friendly

Converfation, written in the twenty-

Second Year of the Author's Age.

P. 186

SER-

The Duty of Charity stated and enforced.

PROV. III. 27.

With-bold not Good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the Power of thine Hands to do it.

T

O difcourfe upon any Duty in Ge- SERM. I. neral, without applying to Partiticulars is little more than idle

;

Declamation and empty Flourish it is to let our Arrows fly at Random, when we fhould direct them to a certain Mark. That Charity in general is a Duty, No-body will deny but there are Many, who, on the Account of particular Circumftances, think themselves entirely discharged from the Performance of it: Many, who, though they own the Obligation, yet difown it in it's due Degrees. Suffer me then to con

fider,

I. Who

VOL. II.

B

SERM. I.

It, Who are the Perfons obliged to Give to charitable Ufes, and in what Proportion.

IIdly, Who are the Perfons qualified to Receive our Charity.

IIIdly, The Manner in which we ought to bestow our Charity. And,

Laftly, To lay before you the Motives to this Duty.

Charity, in the most comprehenfive Sense of the Word, takes in a large Compafs: it extends itself to a hearty Defire and Endeavour to do all poffible Good by our Heads as well as our Hands; by our Words as well as Works: by inftructing the Ignorant, advising the Mistaken, reclaiming the Wicked, comforting the Afflicted, encouraging the Virtuous and Worthy, &c. Charity even takes in Piety. For, not to mention that Piety, or a Regard to the Deity, is the Foundation of Charity, or Love to our Fellow-Creatures; exemplary Piety is one confiderable Inftance of doing Good: It is letting our Light fine out before Men,