PUBLISHED BY SWORDS, STANFORD, AND CO. .

No. 152 Broadway,

1832.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by Mary G. Hobart, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

EDWARD J. SWORDS, PRINTER,

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

SERMON I.

THE ILLUMINATING POWER OF THE GOSPEL.

2 Corinthians iv. 4.

The light of the glorious Gospel - - - - - 1

SERMON IT.

THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST TO THE SOUL OF THE

BELIEVER.

2 CORINTHIANS iv. 6.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,

hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the know-

ledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ - - 13

SERMON III.

THE FOLLY OF TRUSTING TO THE FUTURE.

JAMES iv. 14.

Ye know not what shall be on the morrow - - - 24

SERMON IV.

THE INSTABILITY OF HUMAN REASONINGS IN CONTRAST

WITH THE STABILITY OF THE WORD OF GOD.

1 Corinthians vii. 31.

The fashion of this world passeth away - - - - 33

SERMON V.

THE RACE NOT TO THE SWIFT.

ECCLESIASTES ix. 11.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the

swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the

wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour

to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all 43

SERMON VI.

THE CHARACTER OF SIMEON.

LUKE ii. 25.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name

was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, wait- ·

ing for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was

upon him - - - - - - - * - 56