The pacific and benevolent temper of the Christian religion, proved from scripture and from facts.

Preached at Lambeth Chapel, Dec. 23, 1764.

LUKE ii. 14. On earth peace, good-will towards men.

An immoderate love of diverfions inconfistent with the duties of a Chriftian.

Preached at St. James's Chapel, Feb. 10, 1771.

2 Tim. iii. 4. Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

SERMON XV. XVI.

Univerfal obedience to the laws of Chrift neceffary to falvation.

Enlarged from one fermon, preached at St. James's Chapel, Feb. 15, 1775.

JAMES ii. 10. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty

of all.

SERMON

The civilization, improvement, and conver

fion of the Negroe-flaves in the British iflands recommended.

Preached before the Incorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts,

February 23, 1783.

LUKE iv. 17, 18, 19, 20.

And there was

delivered unto him the book of the prophet Efaias; and when he had opened the book, be found the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he bath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he hath fent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of fight to the blind; to fet at liberty them that are bruifed;

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

And he clofed the book, and he gave it again to the minifter, and fat down, and the eyes of all them that were in the fynagogue were fastened on him.

On the nature and the characteristic marks of a Christian friendship.

Preached at St. James's Chapel, March 16, 1777.

JOHN xiii. 23. Now there was leaning on Fefus' bofom one of his disciples, whom Jefus loved.

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

OF the following fermons, the fecond, eighth, eleventh, a part of the thirteenth, and the whole of the fourteenth, have been published before, and are here reprinted, with confiderable alterations and corrections. The reft are now for the first time offered to the public.

SERMON

SERMON · I.

MARK xii. 30.

THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND; AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH. THIS IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT:

T

HE LOVE OF GOD, fo forcibly incul

cated in this and other paffages of scripture, is a fentiment purely evangelical; and is one of those many peculiar circumstances which fo eminently diftinguish the doctrines of the gospel from the dry unanimated precepts of the antient heathen moralifts. We never hear them urging the love of God, as a neceffary part of human duty, or as a proper ground of moral obligation.