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CONTENTS.

MEMOIR OF MR. BUCKMINSTER

An Oration on the Dangers and Duties of Men of Letters .!

The fitness of the time of the introduction of the

gospel; and the necessity of a miraculous inter-

position to account for its success.

GAL. iv. 4. But when the fulness of time was come, God

sent forth his Son

The argument for christianity from the character

of our Saviour.

JOHN vii. 46. Never man spake like this man

The advantages of sickness.

PSALM CXIX. 71. It is good for me, that I have been afflicted 34-49

The excuses of the irreligious.

LUKE xiv. 18. And they all with one consent began to make

The love of fame.

JOHN xii. 43. For they loved the praise of men more than

The Epistle to Philemon.

EPISTLE TO PHILEMON.

JOHN vi. 12. Gather up the fragments that remain, that

HEBREWS XI. 1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped

for, the evidence of things not seen

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The history and character of Paul; and the causes

of obscurity in his writings.

2 PETER iii. 15, 16. Even as our beloved brother Paul,

also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written

unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of

these things, in which are some things hard to be under-

stood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest,

as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own de-

JEREMIAH Xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or

the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are

accustomed to do evil

Confession of Christ.

MATTHEW X. 32, Whosoever shall confess me before men,

him will I also confess before my Father, which is in

The introduction of the affections into religion.

PHILIPPIANS i. 9. And this I pray, that your love may

abound yet more and more

Self-government.

PROVERBS XXV. 28. He that hath no rule over his own spirit

is like a city, that is broken down, and without walls 213-227

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If we would judge ourselves, we

Salvation by grace.

EPHESIANS ii. 5. By grace ye are saved

The Pharisee and the Publican.

LUKE Xviii. 10. Two men went up into the temple to pray;

the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican

The character of Peter.

MATTHEW XXVI. 35.

Peter said unto him, Though I should

die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. LUKE xxii. 61,

62. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And

Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said

unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly

The religious education of children.

EPHESIANS vi. 4. Fathers, provoke not your children to

wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of

The circumstances, in the situation of our country,

favourable to moral and religious eminence.

DEUTERONOMY xxxiii. 29. Happy art thou, O Israel, who

is like unto thee?

(Preached on occasion of the State Thanksgiving, Nov. 1807.)

The influence of the gospel on the character and

condition of the female sex.

PHILIPPIANS iv. 3. I entreat thee,-help those women, which

laboured with me in the gospel,-whose names are in the

(Preached before the Boston Female Asylum, Sept. 1810.)

The connexion and mutual influence of knowledge,

piety, and charity.

2 PETER i. 5-7. Add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue,

knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to tempe-

rance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godli-

ness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, cha-

The Right Hand of Fellowship, delivered at the

ordination of the Rev. C. Lowell, Jan. 1, 1806 350-353

MEMOIR

OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF THE

REVEREND JOSEPH S. BUCKMINSTER.

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