SELECT WORKS

OF

THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., LL.D.

COMPRISING HIS

MISCELLANIES; LECTURES ON ROMAN S;
ASTRONOMICAL, COMMERCIAL, CONGREGATIONAL,
AND POSTHUMOUS SERMONS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.
SERMONS.

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

No. 285 BROADWAY.

1850.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

ON THE PATERNAL CHARACTER OF GOD.

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall

your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him ?"-MATT. vii. 11.

SERMON II.

THE STATE OF THE UNCONVERTED.

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"At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and stran-

gers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world."-EPH. ii. 12. 13

SERMON III.

THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD.

"Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God."-ROMANS xi. 22.

SERMON IV.

SALVATION SCARCELY OBTAINED EVEN BY THE RIGHTEOUS.

"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear."-

1 PETER iv. 18.

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SERMON V.

ON THE SPIRIT'S STRIVING WITH MAN.

"And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man."-GEN. vi. 3.

SERMON VI.

ON THE NATURE OF THE SIN UNTO DEATH.

"There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it."-1 JOHN v. 16.

SERMON VII.

THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE SABBATH.

"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;

and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour hím, not

doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then

shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord: and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of

the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord

hath spoken it.”—ISAIAH lviii. 13, 14. .

SERMON VIII.

THE ADVANTAGES OF A FIXED SABBATH.

"Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.—GAL. iv. 10.

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SERMON IX.

THE ACCOMMODATING SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY TO THE SCRUPLES OF THE WEAK.

"Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world stand-

th, lest I make my brother to offend."-1 COR. viii. 13.

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