Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS,

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CON

T E N T S.

SERMON LVI,-LXIV.

The Happy Congregation ; or, the Great Gathering

of the People to Shiloh,

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Gen. xlix. 10. The Sceptre shall not depart from Judab,

nor the lawgiver from between bis feet, until Shilob

come ; and unto bim shall the gathering of the people be.

The words being viewed in their connection, analized, and explained,

difficulties obviated, and the true sepse ascertained, the following

general topics of discourse are largely handled, viz.

I. Some remarks offered with respect to the nature and qualities of
the gathering of the people to Shiloh,

12

2. Who the people are, of whom it is said this gathering shall be,

enquired into,

27

3. To whom this gathering of the people is to be, and in what respects

it is to Christ,

37

4. The manner of this gathering, by what means, and in what method

it shall be,

48

5. The special seasons mentioned wherein this gathering doth, or shall

take place,

85

6. The reasons why this gathering of the people shall be to Shiloh,

enumerated,

124

7. A copious improvement of the whole subject,

139

Use 1. Of information, in sundry particulars,

ibid.

2. Of exhortation, to three forts of persons,

149

(1.) To these who are doubtful if they be gathered,

ibita

(2.) To unbelievers, who were never gathered to Shiloh, 163

(3.) To believers, who have been gathered to him, 186

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