dentally quoted a stanza or two from one of them, and was delighted to see that they immediately caught the attention of his little audience, for he observed that several of the children followed him in repeating this circumstance induced him to quote from them more frequently, and he has been pleased in finding that the words, "as your beautiful little hymn teaches you," have never failed to call back the wandering attention of his young hearers. The Author only adds his earnest hope and prayer, that his little volume may, through the Divine blessing, be useful to the rising generation. Beverley, 30th May, 1832. Note. As the sermons were not numbered when they were sent to the press, they are not printed in the order in which they were preached; this will account for the references in Sermon VI. and others, to some of those which follow them. 1 CONTENTS. 1 SERMON I. MARK X. 14. Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God SERMON II. DEUTERONOMY XXXI. 12. PAGE 1 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law 13 SERMON III. PSALM 1v. 16, 17. As for me, I will call upon GOD: and the LORD shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth 49 SERMON VI. EPHESIANS iv. 32. Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as GOD, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you 61 SERMON VII. COLOSSIANS iii. 20. Children obey your parents in all things; for this 1 73 And thou Solomon, my son, know thou the GOD of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind; for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten |