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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

SERMON XXXIV.

ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.- 2 KINGS I-IX.

Kings of Judah and Israel-Ahaziah and Elijah-Elijah carried to

Heaven-Elisha-Naaman the Leper-The Little Maid-The

Siege of Samaria-Benhadad-Hazael-Jehu.

2 KINGS V. 17.

Thy servant will, henceforth, offer neither burnt-offering, nor

sacrifice, unto other gods, but unto the Lord.

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SERMON XXXV.

TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.-2 KINGS X-XVII.

Jehu-Athaliah-Jehoash-Jehoahaz-Joash-Amaziah―Jero-

boam the Second-Azariah-Zachariah-Shallum-Menahem-

Pekahiah-Pekah-Jotham-Ahaz-Hoshea-The Captivity of

Israel-The Samaritans.

2 KINGS X. 30, 31.

And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in

executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done

unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine

heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the

throne of Israel. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law

of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed

not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. . 16

SERMON XXXVI.

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.-2 KINGS XVIII-XXV.

Hezekiah-Assyria-Sennacherib-George III. and Bonaparte-

Manasseh-Amon-Josiah-Jehoahaz―Jehoiakim-Jehoiachin

Zedekiah-The Captivity of Judah.

2 KINGS Xxiii. 27.

And the Lord said, I will remove Judah, also, out of my sight,

as I have removed Israel; and I will cast off this city Jerusa-

lem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My

name shall be there

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SERMON XXXVII.

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.—JEREMIAH I-XXIII. 8.

Two Books of Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Esther—Job—

Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon-Jeremiah.

JEREMIAH v. 23–25.

This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are re-

volted and gone.
Neither say they in their heart, Let us,

now, fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former

and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the ap-

pointed weeks of the harvest.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins

have withholden good things from you

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SERMON XXXVIII.

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.-JEREMIAH XXIII.

9.-LII, AND LAMENTATIONS.

Jeremiah's boldness-False Prophets-The Rechabites-Jehoiakim's

destroying the Book of the Word of God-Zedekiah-Nebuchad-

nezzar- -Lamentations-The Sacred Elegy-The sorrow of the

Messiah.

JEREMIAH XXxv. 18, 19.

And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith

the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed

the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his

precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded

you; therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of

Israel,

Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand be-

fore me for ever

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SERMON XXXIX.

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.-EZEKIEL I—XIII,

Ezekiel-his Vision-Ordination-Charge-Prophetic Emblems-

Idolatries-The Sign of God in the Forehead-Departure of

God's Glory-False Prophets warned-Ministers of God.

EZEKIEL ii. 7.

Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear,

or whether they will forbear.

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SERMON XL.

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.EZEKIEL XIV-XVIII.

Idols set up in the Heart-The Trinity-The four sore Judgments

of God-The Adultery of Jerusalem-The Eagles, the Cedar,

and the Vine-The Branch of the Cedar-God's dealings with

the Righteous and the Wicked-The Doctrine of Original Sin.

EZEKIEL Xviii. 27.

When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that

he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right,

he shall save his soul alive

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SERMON XLI.

IGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.-EZEKIEL XIX-XLVIII.

Contents of the Book-The Sabbath hallowed-The Destruction of

Jerusalem-The Restoration of the Jews-The General Resur-

rection.

EZEKIEL XX. 19, 20.

I am the Lord your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my

judgments, and do them;

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And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me

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SERMON XLII.

NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.- -DANIEL I-XII.

The Book of Daniel-Siege of Jerusalem-The Three Hebrew

Youths-Nebuchadnezzar's Dream-The Three Youths in the

Furnace-Nebuchadnezzar's Insanity-Belshazzar's Feast-Da-

niel in the Lions' Den-Daniel's Visions-The Seventy Weeks.

DANIEL iii. 28.

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his

Angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have

changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they

might not serve nor worship any God except their own God.

AND vi. 23.

Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that

they should take Daniel up out of the Den. So Daniel was

taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found

upon him, because he believed in his God.

SERMON XLII.

TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah-Micah.

MICAH VI. 8.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the

Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and

to walk humbly with thy God.

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