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Ar the request of a number of the members of the Outer High Church, the Publisher applied to the friends of the late Rev. Dr. BALFOUR, for the privilege of reprinting the following Sermons, with a Portrait of the author; this was readily granted, and they are now offered to the public, in one volume.

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SERMON I....Preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, before the Society in Scotland, for propagating Christian knowledge; at their Anniversary meeting, 5th June, 1789.-SERMON II....Preached before the Glasgow Missionary Society, 14th April, 1796.-SERMON III. ...Preached before the Missionary Society in London, 10th May, 1798.

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SERMON I.

LIBERAL CHARITY STATED AND RECOMMENDED

ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL.

2 COR. IX. 6.-LAST CLAUSE.

He which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully.

THE Scriptures abound in a great variety of the most beautiful images, and figurative allusions. These are sometimes employed as the only fit conveyance of spiritual truths to our minds; sometimes as apt and affecting illustrations of known truths; and sometimes to press them more forcibly upon our attention, and allure us into a more cheerful compliance with their design. In this and the preceding chapter the apostle urges the Corinthians to be charitable to the poor saints. By the most insinuating address he takes possession of every avenue to their hearts, and puts them under the pleasing necessity of yielding to

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