SERMON XVII,

On Religious Defpondence.

PSALM XXXviii. 6. ·.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I

go mourning all the day long.

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SERMON

XVIII.

On the Chriftian Characters of Youth.

2 COR. vi. 17, 18. vii. 1.

Come out from among them, and be ye fepa-

rate, faith the Lord, and touch not the

unclean thing: and I will receive you, and

will be a father unto you, and ye shall be

My fons and daughters, faith the Lord

Almighty. Having therefore these promises,

dearly beloved; let us cleanfe ourselves from

all filthiness of flesh and fpirit, perfecting

boliness in the fear of God.
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SERMO N. XIX.

On the Chriftian Characters of Youth.

2 COR. vi. 17, 18. vii. 1.

Come out from among them, and be ye fe-

parate, faith the Lord, and touch not the

unclean thing: and I will receive you, and

will be a father unto you, and ye shall be

My fons and daughters, faith the Lord

Almighty.

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SERMON I

On Hearing of Sermons.

2 TIM. iii. 7.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the Knowledge of the Truth.

A DESCRIPTION equaily emphatical and disheartening! But to whom is it applicable? If there were fuch characters in an age painfully emerging from Jewish and Pagan darkhefs; are there fuch in modern days? If such characters are to be found among the moft obfcure and mifguided fects; are there fuch in the bofom of the national church? In ancient and in modern times, among fects and in the eftablishment, of fuch characters there have been and there are multitudes. Is it poffible? Shall man be ever learning, and never able to attain knowledge? Shall man labour, fhall he labour in the pursuit of religious truth, and reap no fruit from his exVOL. II ertions?

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