PRESBYTERIAN PREACHER,

OR ORIGINAL SERMONS BY LIVING MINISTERS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,

ON

THE IMPORTANT DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY,

PRESENTED IN A CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE MANNER, FOR THE
INSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT AGE, AND IN DEFENCE
OF THE TRUTH.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes.of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judg ments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.-PSALMS.

EDITED BY REV. S. C. JENNINGS.

VOLUME II.

PITTSBURGH:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY D. AND M. MAGLEAN.

1834.

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THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
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VOLUME II.

SERMON XIV. BY ANDREW WYLIE, D. D.

THE NATURE OF FAITH.

14:1. Ye believe in God: believe also in me.

SERMON XV. BY JOHN W. NEVIN, A. M.

ELECTION NOT CONTRARY TO A FREE GOSPEL.

6:37-40. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that

meth to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to

mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's

ill which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose no-

ing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him

at sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may

ave everlasting life.

SERMON XVI. BY JOHN M'MILLAN, D. D.

THE MORAL LAW ESTABLISHED BY FAITH IN THE GOSPEL.

mans 3:31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,

e establish the law.

SERMON XVII. BY DAVID M'CONAUGHY, D. D.

CHRIST THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

atians 2:21. If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

SERMONS XVIII AND XIX. BY JAMES BLYTHE, D. D.

THE PRESENT STATE AND DUTIES OF THE CHURCH.

iah 40:3, 4, 5. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the

way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every

alley shall be exalted, and every mountain shall be made low: and the crook-

d shall be made straight, and rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord

hall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together

SERMON XX. BY EZRA FISK, D. D.

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THE NATURE, LAWFULNESS, AND PROPER USE OF CREEDS.

Tim. 1:13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me,

faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

SERMON XXI. BY STEPHEN BOVELL, D. D.

DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE.

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mans 8:29, 30. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con.

formed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many

brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom

he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also g orified. 289