Sermons to asses, to doctors in divinity, to lords spiritual, and to Ministers of state

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TO

DOCTORS IN DIVINITY, *„.

Preface

Sermon I. — Gen. xlix. 14. Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens.

II. — Same text.

III. — Numbers, xxii. 21 — 30. And Balaam rose up in the

morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.—And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine ?

IV. — Numbers, xxii. 30. Am not I thine ass, upon which

thou hast ridden ever since I was thine ?

V. — Additional Sermon. — Gen. xviii. 28. Andhesaid,

If I find there forty and five, 1 will not destroy it.

SERMONS TO DOCTORS IN DIVINITY.

Dedication — To Dr. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester. Sermon I. — Matt, xxiii. 7. And love to be called of men, Rabbi.

II. — Matt, xxiii. 8. But be not ye called Rabbi ; for one is

your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.

III. — The like text.

IV. — The like text.

V. — Matt, xxiii. 8. One is your Master, even Christ, and

all ye are brethren.

VI, — Isaiah, ii. 17—18. And the loftiness of men shall be

bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low ; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ; and the idols he shall utterly abolish.

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NEW SERMONS TO ASSES.

Dedication — To the Petitioners against the Dissenters' Bill. Sermon I. — Judges, iii. 22. And the dirt came out, 11.— The like text.

III. — The like text.

IV. — The like text.

V. — The like text.

VI.— The like text.

Mil.— The like text.

LECTURES TO LORDS SPIRITUAL.

Dedication — Ad Dominos Spirituals.

Lecture I. — Matt, xxiii. 4. For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders ; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. ll.—The like text.

III. —The like text.

IV. — I. Tim. iii. 2 — 3. A Bishop must be blameless, apt to

teach, not greedy of filthy lucre, not covetous, Sfc. V. — The like text.

VI. — A Bishop must be blameless, given to hospitality, apt to teach, not greedy of filthy lucre, not covetous. VII. — Numbers, xviii. 24. But the tythes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave-offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit ; therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. VIII. — Eccles. xii. 14. For God will bring every work int& judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

IX. — II. Kings, xviii. 27. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

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SERMONS TO MINISTERS OF STATE.

Dedication — To Lord North, one of His Majesty's Secretaries of State.

Sermon I. — Mark, xvi. 15. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. II. — Mark, xvi. 15. Preach the gospel to every creature. — Hv that believeth, shall he saved; and he that believeth not, shall be damned.

III. — Mark, xvi. 15. Preach the gospel to every creature.

IV. — The like text.

V. — James, iv. 1. From whence come wars and fightings, among you? come they not from your lusts?

VI. — The like text.

VII. — Esther, iii. 2. And all the king's servants bowed to

II am an ; but Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.

VIII.— I. Kings, xii. 18. Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the treasury, and all Israel stoned him with stones, till he died.

IX. — II. Sam. xxiv. 14. And David said, I am in a great strait: let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hands of men.

X. — II. Chron. iv. 2. And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, it is nothing with thee to help with many, or with them that have no power : help us, O Lord our God, for we rest in thee, and in thy name go against this multitude. So the Lord smote the ^Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah^ and the Ethiopians fled*

TO

ASSES, f f A Nation of Slaves is a Kingdom of Asses." — Sermon I,

A NEW EDITION.

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THREE DOORS FROM LUDGATE HILL.

1817,