CONTENTS OF VOL. III. OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES. Page DISC. I.-On Education: preached in behalf of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1825 781 What is included in the word Education .... 785 On that kind which now engages the public mind.... Necessary Connexion between Education and Appeal in behalf of the present Society 808 825 8.38 DISC. II. The three unclean Spirits: preached before the Continental Society, 1827............... 1. The Spirit of autocratic absolute Power- 2. The Papacy-(an assumption of the three- 3. Infidelity (against the Testimony of the 858 Holy Spirit in the Church) .......... 875 DISC. III.-God's Controversy with the Land: preached on occasion of the great National Distress in 1826, and in aid of the Collection for the 847 DISC. IV. Drying-up of the Euphrates: first of a series Page of Prophetic Discourses, June 1827......... 964 Signification of the Symbols, The River Euphrates," and "The Kings of the East" 968 Nature of the Judgment decreed upon Eu- 995 Inquiry whether such a Judginent is now visible in the Ottoman Empire. 1008 DISC. V.-The Curse (Gen. iii.) as to Bodily Labour, &c. : preached at Birmingham, on the opening of DISC. VI.-The Kings of the East, or the Ten Tribes ... 1094 Doctrine of the Text (Rev. xvi. 12), and Arguments to prove that the Ten Tribes are the Kings of the East Further confirmation of this opinion 1095 ... 1156 DISC. VII-Cause and Remedy of Ireland's Evil Condi tion: preached before the Hibernian So TO HENRY DRUMMOND, ESQ. AND TO ALL THE BRETHREN WHO ARE WAITING FOR THE PERSONAL APPEARING AND REIGN OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. MY HONOUred friend AND BELOVED BRETHREN, After casting about in my own mind to whom I might most fitly dedicate these Occasional Discourses, which are chiefly of a public and political character, as having been almost all preached on week-days, for public objects, and, as I may say, on secular occasions, (for even the Bible Society is, by its chief advocates, held to be not a religious but a secular association,) I had little difficulty in making choice of you from the throng of presidents and vice-presidents, governors and life-governors, and other functionaries of the religious world.' For, to wave all considerations of personal friendship and esteem, no one whom the religious stir and tumult of the last thirty years hath brought conspicuously before the church, hath so strenuously served her best interests through good and through bad report, or doth so well deserve her thanks, as doth the man who brought forward from their obscurity and persecutions both Burckhardt and Wolff, and upheld their way against the sharp tongues of prudential and worldly-wise Christians: who laid the foundation of the Continental Society, and hath built it up in the frown and opposition of the religious world;' who detected and dragged to light the false reports concerning the state of religion on the Continent, with which the Bible Society, in its palmy times, had glozed the charitable ear of the church; who has stood forth as the friend and patron of every society which hath any shew of favour to the Jews; and finally, who hath taken us poor despised interpreters of prophecy under your wing, and made |