will shew. And several of them were the Sermons which he usually preach'd in bis Diocese, and elsewhere, in the latter Part of his Life, as being best calculated, in his own Opinion, (So it may be justly prefum'd) for doing Good to Mankind, and the Discharge of his own Duty, as a Minister of the Gospel. Could these Sheets have carried any Impression of that Energy and Zeal with which the Living Author of these Discourses address'd them to his Auditors, and to which they owed no fmall Share of that Beauty and Influence which they once had from his own Mouth, they would have been more welcome and more valuable to the Reader. One Excellence indeed they cannot be depriv'd of, which, in some measure, will supply the Want of those external and additional Graces that accompanied and adorned them in the Pulpit, viz. that Spirit of Piety which yet enlivens and breathes through them all, all, and demonstrates them to be the real Issues of his Heart, and the very Dictates of his Soul, by such Marks of Evidence as are easy to be discover'd, tho difficult to be defcrib'd, and impossible to be counterfeited. CON CONTENTS Of grieving the Spirit. Of the Sealing of the Spirit. Of the different Notions of Deliver'd in Two Sermons on this Text, ΕΡΗ. iv. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of Of the various Callings in Life: And the In- ferences from thence. That Christianity makes no Change in human Callings, or in the Civil Relations of Life: And the Inferences from thence. Of the Requi- fites of a lawful Calling, and how it is to be diftinguish'd from one that is unlawful. Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text, 1 Cor. vii. 17. But as God hath distributed to every Man as the Lord hath called every Of Diligence and Watchfulness in our Chri- stian Calling. How our Time is to be spent, and our Leisure improv'd, to use- dom and Prudence Christians are to use in Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text, EPHES. V. 15, 16. See then that ye walk cir- The Danger of Cloaking or Dissembling our Sins. Confeffion of Sins necessary to Re- pentance. What Sort of Confession that Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text, PROV. xxviii. 13. He that covereth his Sins shall not profper: but whoso confefseth, and forsaketh them, shall find Mercy. The Efficacy of Believing, to Salvation. Deliver'd in Two Sermons, on this Text, MARK xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be faved: But he that be- Of Conformity to the Customs and Ways of |