connected with the particular services of the Church, are more immediately adapted to certain Seasons, or Sundays. He takes this opportunity of acknowledging, with humble and devout thankfulness, that measure of the Divine Blessing, which seems to have attended the Volumes already published; and earnestly prays for a continuance of the same blessing on the present Publication. Hamstall Ridware, CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. FORGIVENESS OF SINS THROUGH CHRIST. ACTS, xiii. Be it known unto you, Men and Brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the for- giveness of sins: and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses. Beware, therefore, perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. Page 33 SERMON IV. GOD'S FAVOUR TO THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM. NAHUM, i. 7. The Lord is good, a strong-hold in the day of trouble, and He knoweth them that trust in Him. - 50 SERMON V. THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST. PHILIPPIANS, iii. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. SERMON VI. 65 THE PRIVILEGES, CHARACTER, AND EXPERIENCE OF THE LORD'S PEOPLE. PSALM lxxiii. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory. SERMON VII. 81 CHRIST A SHELTER AND REFRESHMENT TO HIS PEOPLE. ISAIAH, Xxxii. 2. And a man shall be as a hidingplace from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 98 SERMON VIII. OBEDIENCE BETTER THAN SACRIFICE. 1 SAMUEL, XV. 22. And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. Page 116 SERMON IX. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THOSE WHO ARE WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. REVELATION, Vii. 14, 15, 16, 17. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in his temple: and He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. 133 SERMON X. GOOD WORKS THE FRUITS OF FAITH AND LOVE. MARK, XIV. 8. She hath done what she could. 150 SERMON XI. COMING SINNERS IN NO WISE CAST OUT. JOHN, vi. 37. And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Page 166 SERMON XII. LIFE THROUGH FAITH IN THE NAME OF CHRIST. JOHN, XX. 31. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. SERMON XIII. THE ANGEL'S ADMONITION TO LOT. 182 GENESIS, Xix. 17. Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed. SERMON XIV. 198 THE LORD'S FAITHFULNESS IN PROVIDING FOOD FOR HIS PEOPLE. PSALM CXi. 5. He hath given meat unto them that fear Him He will ever be mindful of His cove nant. SERMON XV. THE CHRISTIAN'S REST THROUGH FAITH. 213 HEBREWS, iv. 1. Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 229 |