ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY

WILLIAM PALEY.

EDITED BY

S.H. 1825

THE REV. EDMUND PALEY, A. M.

VICAR OF EASINGWOLD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON; J. NUNN; LONGMAN,
HURST, REES, ORME, AND CO.; T. CADELL; J. RICHARDSON;
BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; G. B. WHITTAKER; R. SAUNDERS;
J. COLLINGWOOD: J. PARKER, OXFORD; AND DEIGHTON AND
SONS, CAMBRIDGE.

1825.

705.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Sermons, now published for the first time in the third edition of the Author's collected Works, are given also in this detached form for the accommodation of the purchasers of former editions, who will of course accept this apology for the unconnected state in which they appear. It has been thought right to reprint, in these volumes, Sermons 7, 9, and 11, because they form part of the subject of two of the new Sermons.

E. P.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME I.

And you

and sins

VOL. I.

I.

WHY MEN RESIST AND PUT ASIDE THE THOUGHTS OF RELIGION.

St. John iii. 19, 20.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the

world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because

their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil

hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his

deeds should be reproved

II.

FEAR A RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE.

Proverbs xiv. 16.

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil

III.

THE STIRRING OF CONSCIENCE.

Ephesians ii. 1.

hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses

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