Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Two,

BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BOSTON:

Printed by S. N. Dickinson,
52 Washington Street.

Pappan Pres. Assoin. 11-26-1923

VOLUME IV.

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

PART I.

GOD.

SERMON I.-THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD PROVED

FROM HIS WORKS.

FOR EVERY HOUSE IS BUILDED BY SOME MAN; BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD.-

HEB. III. 4.

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PART II.

DIVINE REVELATION.

SERMON II.-THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT IN RELIGION.

THESE WERE MORE NOBLE THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA, IN THAT THEY RECEIVED

THE WORD WITH ALL READINESS OF MIND, AND SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY,

WHETHER THOSE THINGS WERE SO.-ACTS, XVII. 11.

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MIRACLES.

ESSAY III.- MIRACLES.

SERMON IV. -THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.

AND KILLED THE PRINCE OF LIFE, WHOM GOD HATH RAISED FROM THE DEAD, WHEREOF

WE ARE WITNESSES. — ACTs, III. 15..

SERMON V.—THE PLENARY INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES.

FOR THE PROPHECY CAME NOT IN OLD TIME BY THE WILL OF MAN; BUT HOLY MEN OF

GOD SPAKE AS THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST.-2 peter, 1. 21..

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SERMON VI. — REASONABLENESS OF CHRISTIANITY.

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BUT HE SAID, I AM NOT MAD, MOST NOBLE FESTUS, BUT SPEAK FORTH THE WORDS OF

TRUTH AND SOBERNESS. ACTS, XXVI. 25..

PART III.

THE TRINITY.

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SERMON VII.-THE SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

NOT REPUGNANT TO SOUND REASON.

FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD, and

THE HOLY GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE.-1 JOHN, v. 7..

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SERMON VIII.-A PERSONAL DISTINCTION IN THE GODHEAD.

THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE COMMUNION

OF THE HOLY GHOST, BE WITH YOU ALL AMEN.-2 COR. XIII. 14.

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SERMON IX.-THE TRUE GOD IS TO BE WORSHIPPED AS EX-

ISTING IN THREE PERSONS.

FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER. — EPH. II. 18. . 128

PART IV.

THE STANDARD OF MORAL OBLIGATION.

SERMON X.-AN ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VIRTUE

AND VICE IN THE NATURE OF THINGS.

WO UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL; THAT PUT DARKNESS FOR LIGHT

AND LIGHT FOR DARKNESS; THAT PUT BITTER FOR SWEET AND SWEET FOR BITTER!

-ISAIAH, V. 20..

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SERMON XI.-CONSCIENCE.

AND HEREIN DO I EXERCISE MYSELF, TO HAVE ALWAYS A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE

TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD MEN.-ACTS, XXIV. 16...

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