THE

LOR D’s-D A Y
Evening ENTERTAINMENT,

• Containing Fifty-two
Practical Discourses

On the most Serious and Important
$ U Bjects in DIVINITY,

Intended for the
USE of FAMILIES.

In FOUR VOLUME S.

By JOHN MASON, A. M.

VOL. II.

The Second Edition.

LONDON:
Printed for J, BYCKLAND, at the Buck in Pater-nofter
Row; J. W AUG H and W.FENNER, at the Turk's
Head in Lombard Street. 1754,

14.4.146

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CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

T HE Duty of an inoffensive Con-

duct.

I Cor. x. 32. Give none Offence, neither to

the Jews, nor to the Gentiles; nor to the Church

of God.

Page 1.

SERMON 11.

Sin the Sickness of the Soul.
Luke v. 39. And Jefus anfwering, said

unto them, they that are whole need not a Pby-

fcian; but they that are fick. .: 27

SERMON JII.

Christ the Physician of the Soul.

The same Text.

56.

SERMON IV. V. VI.

The future Happiness of the Righteous.

Pfal. xcvii. 11. Light is fown for the

Righteous; and Gladness for the Upright in

Heart,

85, 112, 138.

SERMON VII.

The Instability of a double minded Man.

· James i. 8. A double minded Man is un-

stable in all his ways.

166.

SERMON VIII.

.. The common Source of false Judgment.

John vii. 24. Judge not according to the

Appearance, but judge righteous Judgment.

SERMO'N Ix.**

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Rules to form a righteous Judgment.

. The same Text. : .223.

SERMON X.

The Prayer of the Pharisee and the Publican.

Luke xviii. 10,- 13. Two Men went up

into the Temple to pray; the one a Pharisee,

and the other a Publican, &c. 246.

. SERMON XI.

· The Principle and Practice of Religion, the

Whole of Man; a Sermon to young People.

Ecclef. xii, 13. Let us hear the Conclusion

of the whole matter ; fear God, and keep

his Commandments: for this is the whole duty

of Man.

→ SERMON XII.

Human Life a Pilgrimage. :)

:: Deuteron. viii. 2. And thou shalt remember

all the way which the Lord thy God led thee

these forty Years in the Wilderness, to humble

thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in

thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his

Commandments or no.

297.

SERMON XIII.

The Way to improve past Providences.

in. The same Text.

SER-

274.

323.

The Duty of an inoffensive CONDUCT. fi * * * * * ****************

i Cor. x. 32. Give none Offence, neither to the Jews,

nor to the Gentiles, nor to the ; Church of God.

CUE HE Apostle, in the latter part

of this chapter, is giving his Tilaa Opinion upon a point of ConSon t roversy which was warmly

L debated in his day; viz. " whether or no it was lawful for Chrif“ tians, on any Occasion, to eat of that “ Meat which had been offered in facrifice “ to Idols.”

This fome denied; fuppofing that it gave countenance to the pagan Idolatry, was inA 3

consistent