SERMONS

BY

HUGH BLAIR, D. D. F. R. S. Ed.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND

BELLES LETTRES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGA,

SECOND COMPLETE AMERICAN EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

HICKMAN & HAZZARD, NO. 121, CHESNUT-STREET.

1822.

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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

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SERMON XLII.

On Moderation.

PHILIPPIANS, iv. 5. Let your moderation be know unto all

men,

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SERMON XLIII.

On the Joy and Bitterness of the Heart.

PROVERBS, xiv. 10. The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and

a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy,

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SERMON XLIV.

On Characters of Imperfect Goodness.

MARK, X. 21. Then Jesus, beholding him, loved him- 26

SERMON XLV.

On the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as a Preparation for

Death.

(Preached at the celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.]

MATTHEW, xxvi, 29. But I say unto you, I will not drink hence-

forth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it

new with you in my Father's kingdom,

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SERMON XLVI.

On the Use and Abuse of the World.

1 CORINTH. vii. 31. They that use this world, as not abusing

it,

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SERMON XLVII.

On Extremes in Religious and Moral Conduct,

PROVERBS, iv. 27. Turn not to the right hand, nor to the left, 50

SERMON XLVIII.

On Scoffing at Religion.

2 Peter, iii. 3.-There shall come in the last days scoffers, 58

SERMON XLIX.

On the Creation of the World.

Genesis, i. 1.

In the beginning God created the heaven and

the earth,

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