Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for where- in is he to be accounted of ?.............................. Page 315 On the Rise and Character of Conquerors. Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings,-for Jacob, my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name. I am National Blessings and Afflictions. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion, and unto thee shall the vow be performed. O Thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come......................................376 Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Page 389 On the Providence of God with respect to Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they ?... 404 On the Stability of the Divine, contrasted God hath spoken once ; twice have I heard this, that power belongeth unto God............................................... MARK, xiii. 7. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled; for such things must needs be ; but the end shall not be yet............ ................................. 432 DISCOURSE XXVII. On the Good Name of the Dead. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 1. of death than the day of one's birth.........................450 DISCOURSE I. ON THE CHARACTERS OF RELIGION IN THE PRESENT AGE. MARK, i. 1. “ The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus « Christ, the Son of God.” We have again, my brethren, reached that season, when our attention is in a more peculiar manner directed to the consideration of the evidences and the history of our religion. It is the wisdom of our church every year to call our thoughts to meditation on these subjects; Preached on the first Sunday in Advent 1811, It and, to those who can appreciate them rightly, none can afford more interesting or improving reflections. We are, perhaps, too much in the habit of considering Christianity as something quite detached from every other human interest, or concern; and while we build upon it our faith in a future state of existence, we yet seldom examine its story and character with that ardent curiosity with which we commonly investigate the political condition of mankind, either in our own, or in distant times. Besides, however, its influence on moral conduct and religious belief, the study of our religion opens to our contemplation the most singular train of events which has taken place in the progress of the world, and which, more than any other, has had a lasting influence on the fortunes and the temper of nations. When we look to its origin, indeed, we discover but little, from which, the consequences that have followed,could well have been predicted. To those who are accustomed to inquire into the complicated apparatus of human policy, and to trace its effects upon the fate of mankind, there will appear something very unpromising in the simple characters and lives of our Lord and his Disciples. This very circumstance, however, is particularly interesting to every well-constituted mind; and it must be refreshing, at least, to turn away our thoughts, for a time, from the dark picture which the events of our own age so constantly obtrude upon from the proud and cheerless aspect of worldly ambition and aggrandisement, to those humble scenes, which, amidst all their mighty consequences on the happiness of the human race, both in the present and in a future state of existence, were yet transacted in the huts of fishermen, and |
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