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DISCOURSES
ON
SEVERAL SUBJECTS.
BY SAMUEL SEABURY, D. D. Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode-Island.
VOL. II.
HUDSON:
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM E. NORMAN.
1815.
OF
VOLUME IL
DISCOURSE I
PART I.
Observations on the Faith and Conduct of Abraham.
GAL. iii. 6. Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteous-
Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the chil-
ness.
dren of Abraham.
PART II.
PAGE.
9-20
The same Subject continued.
DISCOURSE II.
The Stedfastness of Job.
JOB. xiii. 15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
DISCOURSE III.
The Example of the Israelites.
1 COR. X. 11, 12. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and
they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.
DISCOURSE IV.
No Temptations unsurmountable by Christians.
1 Cor. x. 13. There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to
man: But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye
are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may
be able to bear it.
DISCOURSE V.
Observations on the Cure of the Paralytic Man who was brought to Christ,
MATT. ix. 2.
Jesus seeing their faith, saith unto the sick of the palsy, Son,
be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee.
21-31
33-39
41-54
55-68
69-80
LUKE Xviii. 42. And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight, thy faith hath saved
thee.
DISCOURSE VII.
The Blessedness of having Eyes that see and Ears that hear.
MATT. xiii. 16. But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they
hear.
DISCOURSE VIII.
The Atonement of Christ.
81-88
89-103
1 JOHN ii. 1, 2. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous; and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for our sins only,
but also for the sins of the whole world.
105-114
DISCOURSE X.
The Case of Esau.
131-137
HEB. xii. 17. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inhertted the
blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought
it carefully with tears.
DISCOURSE XI.
The Exultation of Zacharias. A Christmas Sermon.
139-151
LUKE i. 68, 69. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and re-
deemed his people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us, in the house
of his servant David.
153-169
CONTENTS.
DISCOURSE XII.
The Circumcision of our Lord, or New-Year's Day.
GAL. vi. 15. In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncir-
cumcision, but a new creature.
DISCOURSE XIII.
Deliverance from Sin the Design of Christ's coming.
vii
165-177
1 JOHN iii. 8. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from
the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil.
DISCOURSE XIV.
No Respect of Persons with God.
179-190
ROM. ii. 28, 29. He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circum-
cision which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew which is one inwardly;
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose
praise is not of men but of God.
DISCOURSE XV.
191-200
The Children of Wisdom.
MATT. xi. 19. But wisdom is justified of her children.
DISCOURSE XVI.
The Christian Race.
201-213
HEB. xii. 1, 2. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easi-
ly beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set
before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
215-226
DISCOURSE XVII.
The Strait Gate.
227-235
LUKE Xiii. 24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate: For many, I say unto you,
will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
DISCOURSE XVIII.
The Parable of the Virgins.
MATT. XXV. 13. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day, nor the hour,
wherein the Son of man cometh.
237-247