tions were made to most of these sermons in the course of preparing them for the press. This circumstance will account for the introduction of some topics which might have appeared irrelevant in discourses professedly addressed to a mixed congregation. To the same cause also must be attributed the unusual length to which many of them have been extended, for which the author's only excuse is that a number of new considerations, appearing to him too important to be omitted, suggested themselves to his mind in the course of revisal, but which he trusts will not prove any serious inconvenience to the reader. Exmouth, Devon, August 31st, 1835. CONTENT S. SERMON I. The Christian a Stranger and Pilgrim on the earth HEBREWS xi. 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Page. 33 SERMON III. The Doctrine of Faith and Works 49 CONTINUED. SERMON IV. On Christ's perpetual presence with his disciples MATT. xxviii. part of v. 20. Lo I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. 69 Page. Now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, and our any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is |