CONTENTS. SERMON N I. The Refurrection of Jefus. By Thomas Matth. xxviii. 6. He is not here: for he is On the Duty of attending the Public Inftitu- tions of Religion. By William Moodie, Heb. x. 25. Not forfaking the affembling of ourselves together, as the manner of fome is, but exhorting one another: and fo The End of Preaching, and the Way to at- tain it. By John Scotland, of Linlithgow. Ecclef. xii. 9. And moreover, because the Pfal. xlviii. 11, 12, 13, 14. Let Mount Zion rejoice; let the Daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgements. Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof: Mark ye well her bulwarks; confider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation following: For this God is our God for ever and SERMON I. The Refurrection of Jefus. By THOMAS HARDY, D. D. one of the Minifters of Edinburgh. Preached in the High-Church of Edinburgh after the celebration of the Lord's Supper, March 1785. MATTH. XXviii. 6. He is not here: for he is rifen, as he faid: Come, Jee the place where the Lord lay. F RIENDS and difciples of the Lord Jefus, ye have this day attended your beloved Mafter in the fcenes of fuffering; ye have seen his body broken and his blood shed. When, ftanding at the foot of the cross, ye look. ed up to the Man of forrows, what were the emotions of your fouls? Ye beheld his countenance beaming with affection to his friends, and with compaffion to his enemies. Ye heard his generous interceffion amidst the extremity of pain and reproach, and his expreffion of final fatisfaction in the moment of retreat. VOL. IV. A He faid, |