truth which, however repugnant to the natural reason,' is so intimately bound up in the spiritual life of the Christian, that any unfaithfulness to it must be attended by the most unhappy results to the soul; while its maintenance, even to the exclusion of other cardinal points of doctrine, will give a certain dignity to all religious thought, influencing for good the character and disposition, as we see to be the case with a narrow and one-sided school of theology prevalent at the present day.

Of the Sermons, one has been already printed-The Sanctity of Christian Art-on the occasion of the re-opening of the Chapel at Rosslyn. Another-CHRIST our Wisdom-was preached at the opening of S. Mary's College, Harlow.

DUNDEE, Advent, 1862.

Errata.

P. 107, line 7 from foot, for Roslin, read Rosslyn.

P. 128, line 7, for Sinclair, read St. Clair.

CONTENTS.

I. THE SUFFICIENCY OF GRACE.

"My grace is sufficient for thee." 2 Cor. xii. 9.

II. THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST THE SOURCE OF

GRACE.

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"The LORD sware, and will not repent; Thou art a

Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."
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Ps.

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III. GRACE AND REWARD.

"Work out your own salvation with fear and trem-

bling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and

to do of His good pleasure." Phil. ii. 12

IV. THE GRACE OF THE ATONEMENT.

"And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth,

and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning

of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven,

and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them

by day, nor the beasts of the field by night." 2 Sam.

xxi. 10.

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V. THE PASSION OF OUR LORD OUR CLEANSING.

"The Blood of JESUS CHRIST His SON cleanseth us

from all sin." 1 S. John i. 7

VI. THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT.

(For Passiontide.)

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"Behold the Blood of the Covenant." Exod. xxiv. 8. 93

VII. THE SANCTITY OF CHRISTIAN ART.

"LORD, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, and

the place where Thine honour dwelleth." Ps. xxvi. 8

VIII. CHRIST OUR WISDOM.

"But of Him are ye in CHRIST JESUS, Who of God is

made unto us wisdom." 1 Cor. i. 30

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IX. Gon's GLORY MAN'S PEACE.

Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace."

S. Luke ii. 14

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X. HEAVEN.

They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of Thy

house; and Thou shalt give them drink of Thy plea-

sures as out of the river." Ps. xxxvi. 8

XI. CREATION.

(Septuagesima.)

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"In the beginning GoD created the heaven and the

earth." Gen. i. 1

XII. CHRISTIAN WATCHFULNESS.

"And what I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch."

S. Mark xiii. 37

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XIII. CHRIST FORGOTTEN AND CHRIST REMEM-

BERED.

"I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I

am become like a broken vessel." Ps. xxxi. 14

XIV. THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM.

"And David longed and said, Oh that one would give

me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is

by the gate." 2 Sam. xxiii. 15

XV. DEBORAH'S SONG.

"So let all Thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let them

that love Thee be as the sun when he goeth forth in his

might." Judges v. 31.

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