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the enjoyment of its reward. His death was like an immediate translation from the work of a sanctuary on earth to the employments of the sanctuary above. He was permitted to escape, in a great degree, from the melancholy approaches of the last foe. He endured no long continuance of pain. He underwent no violent struggle. The garment of mortality easily dropt off; and the servant of God fell asleep in the Lord. "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the latter end of that man is peace. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; they rest from their labours and their works follow them." May the "memorial of the just" remain with us "in everlasting remembrance!" Let us "remember them that have spoken unto us the words of God." Let us be "followers of them who through faith and patience are now inheriting the promises." Let us live the life of the righteous, that we may die his death, and our latter end, like his, may be blessed!

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SERMON I.-1 THESS. iii. 8.

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For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord,

SERMON II.-PROV. xv. 3.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil

SERMON III. - PSALM xix. 13.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins,

SERMON IV. - 2 TIMOTHY її. 5.

Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof,

SERMON V.-ISAIAH liii. 3.

He is despised and rejected of men: He was despised, and we

esteemed him not,

SERMON VI. - ROMANS iii. 19.

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Now we know, that what things soever the law saith, it saith

to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be

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SERMON VII.-MATTHEW xi. 28.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I

will give you rest,

SERMON VIII.-ZECHARIAH ix. 12.

Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day

do I declare, that I will render double unto thee,

SERMON IX.-1 PETER ii. 25.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto

the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls,

SERMON X. -HEBREWS IV. 16,

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we

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SERMON XI.-ROMANS Vii. 32.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,

how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

SERMON XII. ROMANS viii. 31.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who

can be against us?

SERMON XIII.-LUKE xii. 35, 36, 37.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and

ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when

he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and

knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed

are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall fmd

watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself,

and make them sit down to meat, and will come forth and

serve them,

SERMON XIV.-1 CORINTHIANS ix. 24.

.....So run that ye may obtain,

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SERMON XV. - ROMANS xii. 11.

.....Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

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SERMON XVI, NUMBERS xiv. 24.

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,

and hath followed me fully; him will I bring into the land

whereunto he went; and his seed shall possess it,

SERMON XVII. - PSALM xxxix. 12.

.....For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my

fathers were,

SERMON XVIII. - JOSHUA xxiii. 11.

Take good heed, therefore, unto yourselves, that ye love the

Lord your God,

SERMON XIX. - EZEKIEL ix. 4.

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And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,

through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the

foreheads of the men that sigh, and that cry, for all the

abominations that be done in the midst thereof,

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SERMON XX. - ECCLESIASTES viii. 11.

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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed spee-

dily; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in

them to do evil,

SERMON XXI.-2 CORINTHIANS iv. 5.

We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and our-

selves your servants, for Jesus' sake,

SERMON XXII. - COLOSSIANS i. 15-19.

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Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every

creature; for by him were all things created that are in hea-

ven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they

be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all

things were created by him. And he is before all things, and

by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body,

the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the

dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.

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SERMON XXIII.-2 CORINTHIANS viii. 9,

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he

was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through

his poverty might be rich,

SERMON XXIV.-1 PETER i. 20, 21.

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Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the

world, but was manifest in these last times for you; who by

him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead, and

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SERMON XXV.-1 JOHN V. 11.

This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life: and

this life is in his Son,

SERMON XXVI. -HEBREWS X. 19-22.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest

by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he

hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his

flesh; and having an High-Priest over the house of God; let

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