BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THOMAS WILSON, D.D. BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN. VOLUME II. THE EIGHTH EDITION. Though he be dead, he yet speaketh. BATH, PRINTED BY AND FOR R. CRUTTWELL; AND SOLD BY C. DILLY, POULTRY, LONDON. M DCC XCVI. 1179860-190 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. SERMON XXVI. The Neceffity of coming to fome Certainty whether we are in the Way of Salvation or not. 2 COR. xiii. 5. EXAMINE yourfelves, whether ye be in the faith. SERMON XXVII. The great Duty of Worshipping God. PAGE I REV. iv. 10, II. The four and twenty elders fall down before Him that fat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and caft their crowns before the throne, faying, Thou art worthy, O LORD, to receive glory, and honour and power: for Thou haft created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created, 21 SERMON XXVIII. The great Duty of acknowledging and glorifying God put in Practice. Ps. xxix. 2. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his Name. 35 SERMON XXIX. The great Danger of delaying our Repentance, JOHN ix. 4. The night cometh when no man can work SERMON XXX. The Conditions of obtaining that Peace of God which paffeth all Understanding. 53 PSALM XXIX. 10. The Lord fhall give his People the Bleffing of Peace. SERMON XXXI. Works, not Words only, neceffary to falvation. 69 MATTH. Vii. 21. Not every one that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in Heaven. 87 SERMON XXXII. Succefs of all our Labours depends on God's Bleffing. LUKE V. 4, 5, 6. Now when he had left fpeaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering, faid unto him, &c. SERMON XXXIII. The Perplexity and Danger of the Double-minded. JAMES i. 8. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. SERMON XXXIV. The Creed put into Practice. 99 117 TIT. i. 16. They profefs that they know God, but in works they deny him; being abominable and difobedient, and unto every good work reprobate: [that is, void of judgment.] JOHN xvii. 3. SERMON XXXV. The Creed put into Practice. 133 This is Life Eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jefus Chrift whom Thou haft fent. SERMON XXXVI. The Creed put into Practice. 157 ACTS ii. 32, 33. This Jefus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witneffes. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the Promife of the Holy Ghoft, he hath fhed forth this which ye now fee and hear. SERMON XXXVII. The First and Great Command; or, the Love of God. 181 MARK Xii. 32, 33, 34. And the Scribe faid unto Jefus, Well, Mafter, thou haft faid the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the foul, and with all the ftrength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and facrifices. And when Jefus faw that he answered difcreetly, he faid unto him, Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God. SERMON XXXVIII. 205 The Second Great Command; or, Thou fhalt love thy Neighbour as Thyself. MARK Xii. 32, 33, 34. And the Scribe faid unto Jefus, &c. 223 1179860-190. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. SERMON XXVI. The Neceffity of coming to fome Certainty whether we are in the Way of Salvation or not. REV. iv. 10, II. The four and twenty elders fall down before Him that fat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and caft their crowns before the throne, faying, Thou art worthy, O LORD, to receive glory, and honour and power: for Thou haft created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created, 21 SERMON XXVIII. The great Duty of acknowledging and glorifying God put in Practice. Ps. xxix. 2. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his Name. 35 SERMON XXIX. The great Danger of delaying our Repentance. JOHN ix. 4. The night cometh when no man can work SERMON XXX. The Conditions of obtaining that Peace of God which paffeth all Understanding. 53 PSALM XXIX. 10. The Lord fhall give his People the Bleffing of Peace. SERMON XXXI. Works, not Words only, neceffary to falvation. 69 MATTH. vii. 21. Not every one that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in Heaven. 87 |