:

SERMONS

ON

Several SUBJECTS.

By the Most Reverend Father in GOD,
Dr. JOHN SHARP, late Lord
Archbishop of YORK.

Never before Printed, and now Publish'd
from his own PAPERS.

VOL. VI.

1

LONDON:

Printed for W. PARKER, at the King's Head in
St. Paul's Church-yard. M.DCC.XXXIV.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SIXTH VOLUME.

SERMON I. Page 1.

Preach'dbefore the Prince of ORANGE, Jan. 27, 1688.

HAT Heresy is. Why permitted by

God. And the great Usefulness and

W

Advantages of it to the Church.

I COR. xi. 15.

For there must be also Herefies among you, that

they which are approved, may be made ma-

nifeft among you.

SERM. II. p. 32.

Preach'd before Queen MARY, Aug. 30. 1691.

Some remarkable and important Observations

upon the History of Cornelius's Conversion

to the Faith.

ACTS

ACTS X. 4.

Thy Prayers and thy Alms are come up for a

Memorial before God.

SERM. III. p. 52.

Preach'd before Queen MARY, 1692.

The Prodigal Son. The true and miferable

State of Sinners. Confideration usually the

first Step to Repentance.

LUKE XV. 17, 18.

And when he came to himself, he said, How

many hired Servants of my Father have

Bread enough, and to spare, and I perish

with Hunger! I will arife and go to my

Father.

SERM. IV. p. 85.

Preach'd before King WILLIAM, 1701.

Of the true Notion of Scandals and Offences.

Popular Misapprehenfions about them

rectify'd. Ufe to be made of the Confi-

deration of their ill Consequences and

Frequency, &c.

MATT. xviii. 7.

But

Woe unto the World, because of Offences; for

it must needs be, that Offences come.

Woe unto that Man by whom the Offence

cometh.

SERM.

SERM. V. p. 105.

Preach'd before Queen ANNE, on the Faft for the

great Storm, 1703-4.

The Duty and Advantages of publick Faft-

ing in general.

JONAH iii. 5.

The People of Nineveh believed God, and

proclaimed a Faft.

SERM. VI. p. 136.

Preach'd before King WILLIAM at Welbeck; and

afterwards before Queen ANNE.

The several Causes of Mens Mistakes about

the Terms of their Salvation, and the

Reasons why they deceive themselves into

vain Opinions of their own Security.

I JOHN iii. 7.

Little Children, let no Man deceive you. He

that doth Righteousness is righteous, even

as he is righteous.

SERM. VII. p. 165.

Preach'd before Queen ANNE, 1707.

The Gospel Proofs of a future State; and

the Nature of the Happiness of Heaven.

2 TIM. i. 10.

Who hath abolished Death, and hath brought

Life and Immortality to light, through the

Gospel.