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I. Of the vices incident to an academical life.
HEBREWS, XII. 1.-The sin that doth so easily beset us.
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II. A defence of the subscriptions required in the church of
England.
1 CORINTHIANS, I. 10.-Now I beseech you, brethren,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak
the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you.
III.—On the anniversary of the martyrdom of Charles I.
LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH, IV. 13.-For the sins of
her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, they have
shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
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FOURTEEN DISCOURSES PREACHED IN THE COLLEGE
CHAPEL.
IV. The authenticity of the books of the New Testament.
JOHN, XV. 26.-When the Comforter is come, whom I
will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
V. The credit due to the sacred historians.
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JOHN, XXI. 24.—This is the disciple, which testifieth of
these things, and wrote these things; and we know that
his testimony is true.
VI. The insufficiency of Hume's objection to the credibility
of miracles.
ACTS, XVII. 32.-And when they heard of the resurrec-
tion of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will
hear thee again of this matter.
VII. On the use of miracles in proving the divine mission of
our Saviour and his apostles.
JOHN, V. 36.-The works that I do, bear witness of me,
that the Father hath sent me.
VIII. Of the evidence arising from the prophecies of the Old
Testament.
MATTHEW, II. 2.—Where is he that is born king of the
Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come
to worship him.
IX. The same subject continued.
LUKE, XXIV. 25, 26.-Then he said unto them; O fools,
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have
spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things,
and to enter into his glory?
X. Of the argument drawn from the swift propagation of the
gospel.
MATTHEW, XIII. 31, 32.-Another parable put he forth
unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain
of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;
which indeed is the least of all seeds, but, when it is
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grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches
thereof.
XI. Of the characters given by heathen writers of the first
Christians.
MATTHEW, V. 11.-Blessed are ye, when men shall revile
you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for my sake.
XII. Recapitulation of the arguments brought in support of
Christianity.
JOHN, V. 37.-The Father himself, which hath sent me,
hath borne witness of me.
XIII.-Intemperance in the gratification of our appetites not
consistent with spiritual improvement.
EPHESIANS, V. 18.-Be not drunk with wine, wherein is
excess; but be filled with the Spirit.
XIV. The prodigal son.
LUKE, XV. 11, 12.-And he said, A certain man had two
sons and the younger of them said unto his father, Father,
give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
divided unto them his living.
And he
XV. The nature and extent of inspiration, illustrated from
the writings of St. Paul,
2 PETER, III. 15.—Even as our beloved brother Paul
also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath writ-
ten unto you.
XVI. The diversity of character belonging to different
periods of life.
1 CORINTHIANS, XIII. 11.-When I was a child, I
spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as
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a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
XVII.-On public virtue.
1 PETER, II. 17.-Love the brotherhood.
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THREE CHARGES DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY OF THE
ARCHDEACONRY OF COLCHESTER.
I. On religious controversies.
II. On the connexion between merit and the reward of merit
in the profession of a clergyman.
III.—On the use and abuse of philosophy in the study of re-
ligion.
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DISPUTATIO HABITA IN SCHOLIS PUBLICIS, ANNO 1756.
Ecclesiastici regiminis, in Anglia et Scotia constituti, neutra
forma aut juri hominum naturali aut verbo Dei repugnat. 221
CONTENTS OF FAWCETT'S DISCOURSES.
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR.
I.—The connexion between the internal evidence of religion
and its external proofs.
DEUTERONOMY, XIII. 1, 2, 3.-If there arise among
you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee
a sign or a wonder; and the sign or the wonder come to
pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after
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