SERM. XI. p. 260.

Preach'd before Queen ANNE, 1711.

About Religious Resolutions. The great
Caution that should be obsery'd in making

them.

JOSHUA xxiv. 21.

And the People faid unto Jofhua, Nay, but we
will ferve the Lord.

SERM. XII. p. 289.

What is meant by setting our Affections on
Heavenly Things, and not on Earthly:
And how absolutely neceffary it is, that
we should thus rightly place our Affec-
tions.

Set your Affections on Things above, and not
on Things on the Earth.

SERM. XIII. p. 318.

A Vindication of the just and innocent Ufe

of Speech, from fome Scruples which have

been raised from two or three particular

Texts.

EPHES. iv. 29.

Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of

your Mouth, but that which is good, to

the Use of Edifying; that it may minifter

Grace to the Hearers.

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SERM. XIV. p. 344.

JAMES i. 13.

Let no Man fay, when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted
with Evil; neither tempteth he any Man.

SERM. XV. p. 370.

ECCLES. ii. 11.

Then I looked on all the Works that my Hands
had wrought, and on the Labour that I had
laboured to do; and behold, all was Vanity
and Vexation of Spirit, and there was no
Profit under the Sun.

SERM. XVI. p. 394.

2 PET. 1. 10.

Wherefore the rather, Brethren, give Dili-

gence to make your Calling and Election

fure.

SERM. XVII. p. 417.

Ком. іі. 28, 29.

For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly;

neither is that Circumcifion, which is out-

ward in the Flesh. But he is a Jew, which

is one inwardly; and Circumcifion is that of

the Heart, in the Spirit, and not in the

Letter, whose Praise is not of Men, but of

God.

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SERM. XVIII. p. 446.

ACTS xiii. latter Part of ver. 48.

And as many as were ordained to eternal Life,

believed.

SERM. XIX. p. 470.

S. MATT. xx. 16.

So the last shall be first, and the first last; for
many be called, but few chofen.

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DISCOURSE

I.

Concerning the Witness of the

Spirit.

ROM. VIII. 16.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
Spirit that we are the Children of God.

HIS Passage is fomething dif

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ficult, and commonly not rightly
understood. For the clearing of

which there are four Things to

be done.

I. To shew what is meant by the Spirit.
II. What is meant by the Children of God.
III. What is meant by the Spirit's bearing
witness with our Spirit.

IV. How, or in what Sense the Spirit
beareth witness with our Spirit that we
are the Children of God.

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