PROVERBS xxii. 1.--A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver or gold. 284 LUKE xv. 18, 19.-I will arise and go to my father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy fon; make me as Prov. iv. 20, 21, 22.-My son, attend to my words ; incline thine ear unto my fayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midit of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their fleih. 393 MATTH.V. 2, 3, 4-10.-And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall in. herit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they fall see God. Blessed are the peace-makers ; for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are perfecuted for righteousness” fake: for theirs is the SERMON XLVIII. Rules for rightly appretiating the Value of Things, Psalm iv. 6.-There be many that say, Who will shew us any good ? 467 SERMON XLIX. The Vanity of all Earthly Things. Eccles. i. 2.-Vanity of vanities, faith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. 484 SERMON L. Of the practical Character of Jesus Christ. Philipp. ii. 5:--Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. 504 Of the Imitation of the Example of Jesus, Philipp. ii. 5.-Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. 529 SERMON LII. Of the Pastoral Office. EPHESIẢNS iv. II.-He gave some-pastors and teachers. 548 SERMON SERMON XXVI. The Value of Social and Public Worship. 09 GOD, to meditate on thee, to worship thee, to have communion with thee, how honourable, how blessed an employment! How far it exalts us above the other inhabitants of the duft! How near it brings us to thy worshipers in heaven, and to thee thyself, who art all in all both to them and to us! Yes, in meditating on thee, we meditate on all that is good, that is great, that is exalted, that is vene rable and amiable! In praying to thee, we pray to the creator and sovereign of the universe, the wise and benign ruler, the gracious father, the great benefactor of us and of all mankind! In having communion with thee, we have communion with the eternal, inexhaustible source of all light, of all life, of all happiness! In employing ourselves in thy service, we feel the whole dignity of the man and of the christian ; feel that we are thy offspring, thy VOL. II. B thy children, that we are capable of high employ. ments, and are ordained by thee for such! Oh might then the sentiment of thee and of communion with thee ever be and procure to us what it may and should be and procure to mankind and to christians! Oh might we never enter the place which is consecrated to this divine employment without reverence, and never leave it without a blessing! Let us then, o Omniprefent, let us here ever intimately feel thy presence, and ever powerfully experience the influences of thy holy spirit! Let light and life, and energy and comfort flow down upon us from thy throne, when in the sentiment of our manifold and urgent necessities, we here invoke thee for supplies of thy bounty. Let it be our constant aim in assembling here in thy presence, ever more plainly and convincingly to discern the truth, to confirm ourselves in the belief in thee and in' thy fon Jesus, ever to advance in piety and goodness, in content and satisfaction, to consolidate our hopes, to bring us nearer to our vocation, and to become constantly more capable of the superior life; and let this be the fruit we fhall reap from our attendance in this place! Teach us, to that end, ever to gain juster conceptions of the value of social and public wor. fhip, ever higher to prize it; and ever to make a more faithful application of it. Bless even now our reflections on thefe important objects, and hearken to our prayer, through Jesus Chrift, in whose name we farther address thee, faying: Our father, &c. |
0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Write review |