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TO
THE YOUNG
OF THE
CONGREGATION OF THE COWGATE CHAPEL, EDINBURGH,
THESE
SERMONS
ABE INSCRIBED, WITB EVERY WISH FOR THEIR PRESENT, AND EVERY PRAYER FOR
THEIR FINAL HAPPINESS.
Edinburgh, 12th November 1815.
CONTENTS.
SERMON I.
On Religious Education.
St. MARK X. 14.
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.
SERMON II.
St. Matthew xxij. 37, 38, 39, 40.
And Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. And
the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law
and the prophets
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SERMON III.
On the Lord's Prayer.
Sr. LUKE xi. 2.
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say thus :-
SERMON IV.
St. LUKE xi. 2.
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say thus :
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SERMON V.
ST. LUKE xi. 2.
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SERMON VI.
On the Example of our Saviour's Piety.
PHILIPPIANS ii. 5.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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SERMON VII.
On the Evidence which arises from the Nature and Cha-
racter of the Gospel.
ST. MARK Xy. 39.
And when the Centurion that stood over against him, saw these
things, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
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SERMON VIII.
On the Evidence which arises from the Progress of the
Gospel.
Acts xii. 24.
But the Word of God grew and multiplied.
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SERMON IX.
On the Evidence which arises from the Jewish Revelation.
HEBREWs i. 1, 2.
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, bath, in these last
days spoken unto us by his Son.
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SERMON X.
On the Evidence which arises from the Accomplishment
of Prophecy.
Genesis xxii. 15, 16, 17, 18.
And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of Heaven
the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the
Lord (for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with-
held thy son, thy only son,) That, in blessing I will bless thee,
and in multiplying I will multiply thee, as the stars of Hea-
ven, and as the sand on the sea shore.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. 106
SERMON XI.
On the Love of Excellence.
PHILIPPIANS i. 10.
That ye may approve things that are excellent.
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