432 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE 180O 



PART I. 



Sermons I., II. On the Being and Attributes of God. 



Ex. iii. 13, 14. — And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children 

 of Israel, and shall say unto them. The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you ; 

 and they shall say to me, What is his name ? what shall I say unto them ? And God 

 said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children 

 of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. 



Sermon III. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are 

 the true Word of God, and a Complete Revelation of his Divine 

 Will to Man. 



Heb. i. I, 2. — God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past 

 unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days sjioken unto us by his Son, 

 whom he hath appointed the Heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. 



Sermon IV. The Folly of Infidelity. 



Psalm xiv. I. — The fool hath said in his heart. There is no God. 



Sermon V. The Wisdom and Reasonableness of Faith in God. 



Heb. xi. 6. — Without faith it is impossible to please him ; for he that cometh to God 

 must believe thai he is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 



Sermon VI. Of the Creation and Nature of Man, and the Immortality 

 of the Soul. 



Psalm viii. 5, 6; Heb. ii. 7. — Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou 

 crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands. 



Sermon VII. Of the Old and New Covenant, the Law and the Gospel. 



Heb. vii. 19. — For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing of a better hope 

 did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. 



Sermon VIII. Of the Difference between Legal and Evangelical Right- 

 eousness, or the Righteousness of Faith. 



Rom. ix. 31-33. — But Israel which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not 

 attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by 

 faith, but as it were by the works of the law; for they stumbled at that stumbling- 

 stone, as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence, 

 and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 



Sermon IX. The Honor and Dignity of the Christian Ministry and 

 Profession. 



Rom. i. 16. — I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the j)ower of God 

 unto salvation to every one that believeth. 



Sermon X. The Grace and Holiness of the Christian Calling. 



2 Tim. i. 9. — God hath saved us and called us with an holy calling; not according 

 to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in 

 Christ Jesus, before the world began. 



