SERMONS BY THE REV. JAMES GRATRIX, M. A. PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. JAMES'S DISTRICT CHURCH, HALIFAX. Ἐὰν γάρ εὐαγγελίζωμαι, οὐκ ἔστι μοι καύχημα· ἀνάγκη γάρ μοι ἐπίκειται 1 COR. IX. 16. THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THESE SERMONS WILL BE GIVEN TO HALIFAX: WHITLEY AND BOOTH, CROWN STREET. M. DCCC. XLIII. TO THE CONGREGATION OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, HALIFAX, THESE SERMONS, MANY OF WHICH WERE IN SUBSTANCE ORIGINALLY ADDRESSED ARE NOW DEDICATED BY The Author; AS A TESTIMONY OF HIS AFFECTIONATE REGARD FOR THEM, AND OF HIS EARNEST DESIRE THAT THEY MAY GROW IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR AND ACCEPTABLE WILL OF GOD. St. James's Parsonage, Feb. CONTENTS. "He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, |