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Sermon XCIV. Of the Trembling of Felix, and the Witness of 

 Conscience. 



Acts xxiv. 25. — And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance and judgment to 

 come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time, when T have more 

 convenient season I will call for thee. 



Sermon XCV. The Certainty of the last Judgment, and of a Future 

 State of Rewards and Punishments. 



2 Cor. V. 10, II. — We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every 

 one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether 

 it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. 



Sermon XCVI. Of the Manner of Christ's Coming to Judgment, and 

 the Resurrection of the Dead. 



1 Thess. iv. 16, 17. — For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, 

 with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall 

 rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them 

 in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 



Sermon XCVII. Of the Dissolution of the World by Fire at the Last 

 Day; with an earnest Exhortation to Holiness of Life, and Prepara- 

 tion for Death and Judgment. 



2 Pet. iii. 10, II. — The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the 

 which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt 

 with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. 



Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought 

 ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness; looking for and hasting unto the 

 coming of the day of the Lord. 



Sermon XCVIIL Of an Eternal World, and the different State of the 

 Righteous and the L^ngodly after Judgment. 



Matt. XXV. 46. — And these shall go away unto everlasting punishment, but the 

 righteous unto life eternal. 



END OF THE PAROCHIAL SERMONS. 



Some of th^se sermons have been published. Many have not 

 been. Where those unpublished now are I am wholly unable to 

 discover; indeed cannot so much as conjecture. I sincerely grieve 

 that they cannot be collected and preserved. In such institutions 

 as the Historical Society of Pennsylvania we have now a place 

 where any manuscripts of value are arranged, indexed, bound, and 

 carefully preserved in fire-proof repositories. I earnestly appeal 

 to my numerous kinsfolk, if among any of them these precious 

 documents yet remain, to collect and deposit them in that or in some 

 other like institution, if any there be, where they will be of some 

 benefit to mankind. In private hands, even the best hands, they 

 are of little or none. 



