HUGH BLAIR, D.D. FR.S. Ed.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH,

AND

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR,

BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

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1822.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME

SERMON XXV.

On Candour.

1 CORINTH. Xiii. 5. Charity—thinketh no evil.

SERMON XXVI.

On the Character of Joseph.

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GENESIS, xlv. 5, 8. Now therefore be not grieved nor angry

with yourselves that ye sold me hither; for God did send me

before you to preserve life.

sent me hither but God.

So now it was not you that

SERMON XXVII.

On the Character of Hazael.

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2 KINGS, viii. 12, 13. And Hazael said, Why weepeth my

Lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou

wilt do unto the children of Israel. Their strong holds wilt

thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the

sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women

with child. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a

dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha an-

swered, The Lord hath showed me that thou shalt be king over

Syria.

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