THE

WORKS

OF

WILLIAM PALEY, D. D.

WITH

ADDITIONAL SERMONS,

ETC. ETC.

AND A CORRECTED ACCOUNT OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,

BY THE REV. EDMUND PALEY, A. M.

VICAR OF EASINGWOLD.

A NEW EDITION,

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VII.

LONDON: C

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON; J. NUNN. LONGMAN, HURST,
REES, ORME, AND CO.; T. CADELL; J. RICHARDSON; BALDWIN,
CRADOCK, AND JOY; G. B. WHITTAKER; R. SAUNDERS; J. COL-
LINGWOOD: J. PARKER, OXFORD; AND DEIGHTON AND SONS,
CAMBRIDGE.

1825.

LENOX

NEWYO

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME VII.

CHARGES.

I.

DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF CAR-

LISLE, IN THE YEAR 1785, ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF

RELIGIOUS TRACTS

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II.

ON THE OATHS OF CHURCHWARDENS

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CAUTION RECOMMENDED IN THE USE AND APPLICATION OF

SCRIPTURE LANGUAGE.

2 Pet. iii. 15, 16.

Even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the

wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you; as

also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;

in which are some things hard to be understood, which

they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do

also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction

II.

ADVICE ADDRESSED TO THE YOUNG CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE

OF CARLISLE.

1 Timothy iv. 12.

Let no man despise thy youth

III.

A DISTINCTION OF ORDERS IN THE CHURCH DEFENDED UPON

PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC UTILITY.

Ephesians iv. 11, 12.

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and

some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the

ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ

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