will shew. And several of them were the Sermons which he usually preach'd in his Diocese, and elsewhere, in the latter Part of his Life, as being best calculated, in his own Opinion, (So it may be justly presum'd) for doing Good to Mankind, and the Discharge of his own Duty, as a Minister of the Gospel.

Could these Sheets have carried any Impression of that Energy and Zeal with which the Living Author of these Discourses address'd them to his Auditors, and to which they owed no Small Share of that Beauty and Influence which they once had from his own Mouth, they would have been more welcome and more valuable to the Reader. One Excellence indeed they cannot be depriv'd of, which, in some measure, will supply the Want of those external and additional Graces that accompanied and adorned them in the Pulpit, viz. that Spirit of Piety which yet enlivens and breathes through them all, all, and demonstrates them to be the real Issues of his Heart, and the very Dictates of his Soul, by fuch Marks of Evidence as are easy to be discover'd, tho difficult to be defcrib'd, and impoffible to be counterfeited.

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CON

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIFTH VOLUME.

DISCOURSE I. Page 1.

ONCERNING the Witness of the

Rom. viii. 16. The Spirit itself beareth Wit-

ness with our Spirit, that we are the Chil-

dren of God.

Concerning the Advocateship of the Holy

Spirit, and the proper Distinctions between

that, and the Advocateship of our Sa-

viour.

1

Deliver'd in Three Sermons, on this Text,

John xiv. 16. And I will pray the Father,

and he shall give you another Comforter,

that he may abide with you for ever.

3

DISC.

DISC. III. p. 64.

Of grieving the Spirit. Of the Sealing of

the Spirit. Of the different Notions of

Redemption in Holy Scripture.

Deliver'd in Two Sermons on this Text,

ΕPH. iv. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of

God, whereby ye are fealed to the Day of

Redemption.

DISC. IV. p. 105.

Of the various Callings in Life: And the In-

ferences from thence. That Christianity

makes no Change in human Callings, or

in the Civil Relations of Life: And the

Inferences from thence. Of the Requi-

fites of a lawful Calling, and how it is to

be diftinguish'd from one that is unlawful.

Of Gaming.

Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text,

I COR. vii. 17. But as God hath distributed

to every Man as the Lord hath called every

one, fo let him walk: And fo ordain I in all

the Churches.

DISC. V. p. 143.

Of Diligence and Watchfulness in our Chri-

stian Calling. How our Time is to be

spent, and our Leifure improv'd, to use-

ful Purposes: And particularly what Wif-

dom

dom and Prudence Christians are to use in

evil and dangerous Times.

Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text,

EPHES. V. 15, 16. See then that ye walk cir-

cumspectly, not as Fools, but as Wife, re-

deeming the Time, because the Days are

evil.

DISC. VI. p. 191.

The Danger of Cloaking or Dissembling our

Sins. Confeffion of Sins necessary to Re-

pentance. What Sort of Confession that

must be.

Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text,

PROV. xxviii. 13. He that covereth his Sins

shall not profper: but whoso confesseth, and

forsaketh them, shall find Mercy.

DISC. VII. p. 210.

The Efficacy of Believing, to Salvation.
Against Infidelity.

Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text,

MARK xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is

baptized, shall be faved: But he that be-

lieveth not, shall be damned.

DISC. VIII. p. 243.

Of Conformity to the Customs and Ways of

the World. How far allowable, and how

far not.

Deliver'd