ON THE

DIGNITY. OF MAN,

AND

THE VALUE OF THE OBJECTS PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO

HUMAN HAPPINESS.

From the German of the late

REV. GEORGE JOACHIM ZOLLIKOFER,
Minifter of the Reformed Congregation at Leipfick.

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, PRINTERS STREET,

FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCII.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUM E.

SERMON XXVI.

The Value of Social and Public Worship.

PSALM XXVII. 4.-One thing have I defired of the Lord, which I

will require: even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord,

and to vifit his temple.

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SERMON XXVII.

The Value of Solitude.

MARK i. 12. And immediately the fpirit driveth him into the

wilderness.

SERMON XXVIII.

The Value of Social Life.

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́EPHES. V. 15, 16.-See then that ye walk circumfpectly, not as

fools, but as wife, redeeming the time, because the days are

evil,

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SERMON XXIX.

The Value of Social Life, continued.

EPHES. V. 15, 16. See that ye walk circumfpectly, not as fools,

but as wife, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 63

ISAIAH Xxiii. 8.-Whose merchants are princes, whofe traffickers

are the honourable of the earth.

SERMON XXXII.

The Value of a Country-Life, or the edifying Sojourn

in the Country.

MATTH. xiv. 13.-Jefus departed thence into a defart place,

apart.

SERMON XXXIII.

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The Value of Domeftic Happiness.

MATTH. XXI. 17.—And he left them, and went out of the city

into Bethany, and he lodged there.

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SERMON XXXIV.

The Value of Friendship.

PROV. xviii. 24.-There is a friend that fticketh closer than a

brother.

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SERMON XXXV.

The Value of civil and religious Liberty.

COR. vii. 23.-Be not ye the fervants of men.

SERMON XXXVI.

The Value of Learning.

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KINGS X. 8.-Happy are thy men, happy are these thy fervants,

which ftand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

SERMON XXXVII.

The Value of more enlightened Times.

208

EPHES. v. 8.-Now are you light in the Lord: walk as children

of light.

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SERMON XXXVIII.

The Value of Afflictions and Tribulations.

II.—

HEBREWS xii. II. No chaftening for the prefent feemeth to be

joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the

peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercifed

thereby.

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