BY WILLIAM JAY. FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. THESE THINGS I WILL THAT THOU AFFIRM CONSTANTLY, THAT THEY WHICH HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD MIGHT BE BUT AVOID FOOLISH QUESTIONS, AND GENEALOGIES, AND PRINTED AT BOSTON, 1805. 5.8136 CONTENT S. MISTAKES CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF THE Wot ye not what the Scripture faith of Elias ? How he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars ; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what faith the answer of God unto him ? I have And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there ; and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his house- hold, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange Gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments : and let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, SERMON IV. Page 68. THE NATURE OF GENUINE RELIGION. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you : and I will take the stony heart out of their fejh, and will give them an heart of Aleja; that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them : and they hall be my people, and I will be their God.-EZEKIEL xi. 19. 23. SERMON V. Page 89, THE YOUNG ADMONISHED. I fear the Lord from my youth.--1 Kings xviii. 12. SERMON VI. Page 113. THE GOSPEL DEMANDS AND DESERVES AT TENTION. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.-Marxiv.23. SERMON VII. Page 133. THE SUFFERINGS OF QUR SAVIOUR NECESSARY. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.—HEBREws ii. 10. SERMON VIII. Page 155. THE CONDEMNATION OF SELF-WILL. Should it be according to thy mind ?--JOB xxxiv. 33, For the Lord God is a fun and field ; the Lord will I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.–St. And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were |