THE SERMONS, AND OTHER PRACTICAL WORKS, Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED MR. RALPH ERSKINE, A. M. Minister of the Gospel in DUNFERmline. CONSISTING OF Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO. To which is prefixed, An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRitings, We preach Chrift Fefus the Lord, 2 COR. iv. 5. VOL. VIII. FALKIRK: PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR, For HUGH MITCHELL, Bookfeller, PETER MUIRHEAD,Merchant, M.DCC.XCVI. CONTENTS. REV. ii. 10. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee The words being viewed both in themselves, and their connection, . The scope and connection of the words being confidered, their spiritual Witnesses cited for God; and all their Witneffing Work ISA. xlii. 12.—re are my witnesses, faith the Lord, that I am God. After an introduction into, and an analysis of the words, and a doc- 2. Shew how, or by what means, we are to be God's witnesses, 90 3. Speak a little concerning the import of these words, Ye are my wit- 4. Demonftrate that the whole witneffing work of God's witnesses is fummed up in this, their witneffing that he is God, DEUT. xxvi. 17, 18. Thou haft avouched the Lord, this day, to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his ftatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice: And · the Lord bath avouched thee, this day, to be bis peculiar people, as be bath promised thee, and that thou fhouldft keep all his commandments. The occafion, defign, and fcope of the words being pointed out, 1. To touch a little at the engagement of a covenanted people, their 4. To prove the doctrine both by fcripture and reafon, 5. To deduce fome inferences for the application of the subject, The Happy Hour of CHRIST'S Quickening Voice, 149 JOHN V. 25. Verily, verily, I fay unto you, The bour is coming, and The words being viewed in their fcope and connection, a generaj 1. A fhort explication of the particulars in the text, After an introduction into, an accurate divifion, and fuccinct explica- 1. To speak a little of the treasure itself, viz. the believer's life, 2. To speak of its being hid; and fhew in what respects it is fo, 193 |