CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

SERMON I.

The Creation.

GENESIS i. 1.

In the beginning God created the heavens and

the earth.

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SERMON II.

The Divine institution of the Sabbath.

GENESIS ii. 3.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified

it, because that in it he had rested from all his

work, which God created and made.

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SERMON III.

The fall of Man.

GENESIS iii. 24.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the

east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a

Aaming sword which turned every way, to keep

the

way of the tree of life.

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SERMON IV.

Cain and Abel.

GENESIS iv. 8.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it

came to pass, when they were in the field, that

Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and

slew him.

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SERMON V.

Enoch.

GENESIS v. 24.

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not;

for God took him.

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SERMON VI.

The Deluge.

GENESIS vii. 23.

And every living substance was destroyed which

was upon the face of the ground, both man

and cattle, and the creeping things, and the

fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed

from the earth: and Noah only remained alive,

and they that were with him in the Ark.

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SERMON VII.

The Rainbow.

GENESIS ix. 13.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for

a token of a covenant between me and the

earth

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SERMON VIII.

The Tower of Babel.

GENESIS xi. 9.

Therefore the name of it is called Babel; because

the Lord did there confound the language of

all the earth: and from thence did the Lord

scatter them abroad upon the face of all the

earth.

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SERMON IX.

The Call of Abraham.

GENESIS xii. 1-3.

Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee

out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and

from thy father's house, unto a land that I will

shew thee: and I will make of thee a great

nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy

name great; and thou shalt be a blessing : and

I will bless them that bless thee, and curse

him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all

the families of the earth be blessed.

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SERMON X.

The Character of Abraham.

GENESIS xii. 7.

And the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and said,

Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there

builded he an altar unto the Lord, who ap-

peared unto him.

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SERMON XI.

Sodom and Gomorrah.

GENESIS xix. 24, 25.

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Go-

morrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out

of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and

all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the

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SERMON XII.

Hagar and Ishmael.

GENESIS xxi. 9, 10. .

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,

which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

Wherefore she said unto Abraham, cast out

this bondwoman and her son : for the son of

this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,

even with Isaac.

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SERMON XIII.

The Offering up of Isaac.

GENESIS xxii. 2.

And he said, take now thy son, thine only son

Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the

land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a

burnt offering upon one of the mountains,

which I will tell thee of.

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