Parts II. and III. On the Character of

JESUS CHRIST.

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136, 157

Preached at Portsmouth 15th July, 1802, before a society of

UNITARIAN CHRISTIANS eftablished in the SOUTH of ENG-

LAND, for promoting the genuine knowledge of the Scrip-

ture, and the practice of virtue, by the diftribution of books.

SERMON VII.

CHRIST raised up to blefs Mankind.

ACTS III. 26.

Unto you first GOD, having raifed up his Son

JESUS, fent him to bless you, in turning away

every one of you from his iniquities. Page 179

SERMON VIII.

CHRIST Our Heavenly Teacher.

JOHN III. 13.

And no man hath afcended up to heaven, but he

that came down from heaven, even the Son of

man which is in heaven.

SERMON IX.

201

CHRIST's promise to those that come to him.

JOHN VI. 37.

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me;

and him that cometh to me I will in no wife

caft out.

223

SERMON X.

The Devotedness of CHRIST to the glory

of GOD.

JOHN VIII. 49, 50.

1 bonour my Father:-and I feck not mine own

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness

and gentleness of CHRIST.

SERMON XII.

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CHRIST'S Prayers and Tears confidered.

HEBREWS V. 7.

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered

up prayers and supplications with strong crying

and tears unto him that was able to fave him

from death, and was heard in that he feared. 291

SERMON XII.

CHRIST the Prince of Peace.

ISAIAH IX. 6.

The Prince of Peace.

311

2 CHRONICLES XXXIII. 12, 13, 15, 16.

And when he was in affliction, be besought the

LORD his GOD, and humbled himself greatly

before the GOD of his fathers, and prayed unto

him: and he was entreated of him, and heard

his supplication, and brought him, again to Je-

rusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh

knew that the LORD he was GOD. And be

took away the strange gods, and the idol out of

the house of the LORD, and all the altars that

he had built in the mount of the house of the

LORD, and in Jerufalem, and cast them out of

the city. And he repaired the altar of the

LORD, and facrificed thereon peace-offerings,

and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to

serve the LORD GOD of Israel.
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SERMON XVI.

On aggravating our Afflictions.

LAMENTATIONS I. 12.

Is it nothing to you,

all ye

that pass by? Behold,

and see if there be any sorrow like unto my

sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the

LORD bath afflicted me in the day of his fierce

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so

are the children of the youth. Happy is the man

that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not

be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemy

in the gate.

SERMON XIX.

399

A Diffent from the Church of England

vindicated.

I PETER III. 15.

Be ready always to give an answer to every one

that asketh a reason of the hope that is in you,

with meekness and fear.

445

SERMON I.

THE USEFULNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES.

2. TIM. III. 16.

All Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

HERE is no confideration which more

THE

effectually exposeth the folly and wickednefs of the church of Rome, in prohibiting the reading of the holy fcriptures; than that of the end and usefulness of those compofitions. Their end is to make us wife unto falvation; their usefulness, in the concerns of religion, is most comprehenfive: fince they are

profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteoufnefs; "that the man of God may be formed to per'fection, and thoroughly furnished unto every "good work." That Church, by its conduct,

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