SERMON VII. EPHESIANS, VI. 5, 6, 7.—Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ: not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men. SERMON VIII. EPHESIANS, Iv. 31, 32.-Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. SERMON IX. PHILIPPIANS, IV. 11.-I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. SERMON X. MATTHEW, VII. 7, 8.—Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. SERMON XI. ...... HEBREWS, XII. 14.-Without holiness shall no man Page 84 98 110 123 see the Lord. SERMON XII. HEBREWS, IX. 27.—It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. 134 147 SERMON I. PSALM C. 3. THE LORD HE IS GOD, IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US, AND NOT WE OURSELVES. Of all the important subjects that ever engaged the attention of mankind, that, of the existence of a God, is one of the most important. In it the dearest interests of every human being are involved; it is the foundation of all our true consolation in this world, and of all our hopes of happiness in the next. The endeavouring to prove, what surely, no man possessing common sense can doubt seems almost an idle waste of time; still, however clear, however self-evident, a pro position may be, if we wish it to make a deep impression upon the mind, it seems necessary that our attention should be frequently called to it. "The fool may say in his heart there is no God," but no reflecting person can believe him. Why? because all nature proclaims aloud, that there surely is a God. Let a man turn up his eyes to the heavens, and observe the sun shining in glorious majesty, diffusing life, and light, and warmth, to all the inhabitants of this wondrous world, -let him survey the firmament bespangled with countless myriads of stars,-let him consider that very many of these resplendent objects are known to be immense globes like our earth,—that for thousands of years they have been in constant and most rapid motion; * still never wearing out; never impeding each other's course; but proceeding with far greater regularity than the most Our earth moves at the rate of 68,000 miles in an hour, and revolves around the sun in exactly the same time every year, being 365 days, 5 hours, 48 min. 49 sec.-The proof of this great regularity in the movements of the heavenly bodies, is clearly shewn by an astronomer being able to calculate eclipses to a minute of time. accurate clock work; can we, then, possibly account for such stupendous bodies being first put into motion, and afterwards preserving such a beauteous order and regularity in their movements, unless directed by that great Being who maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind?-Again, when we cast our eyes on the globe we inhabit, innumerable marks of wondrous power are every where displayed, and the most indubitable proofs of design are manifested by the nicest adaptation of means to ends; but design is no more conceivable without a designer, than a shadow without a substance; an effect without a cause. When we examine a watch, we find in it a coiled elastic spring, which communicates motion through a series of small wheels fitting each other, and conducting the motion from the fusee to the balance, and from the balance to the index, which accurately passes over a given space ¡n a given time; now, I would ask, can any man in his senses be absurd enough to imagine, after such examination, that the watch |