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THE

SERMONS,

AND OTHER

PRACTICAL WORKS,

Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED

MR. RALPH ERSKINE, A. M.

Minister of the Gospel in DUNFERMLINE.

CONSISTING OF

Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, befides his POETICAL PIECES.

IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO.

To which is prefixed,

An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS, with an ELEGIAC POEM, and large CONTENTS.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Chrift, Rom. i. 16.

VO L. VII.

FALKIRK:

PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR,

For PETER MUIRHEAD, Merchant, the Revd. JOHN STEWART, and HUGH MITCHELL, Bookfeller, the Publishers,

M.DCC.XCVI.
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BX 9079 ·E73 1774

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THE

CONTENT S.

SERMON

CVII, CVIII.

The Commencement of all Saving Bleffings,

HAG. ii. 19. From this day will I bless you.

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The words being confidered in their connection, divided and explained, and the fpiritual meaning contained in them given in a doctrinal propofition, the following topics are difcuffed, viz.

1. What this fpiritual temple is,

2. What is the foundation thereof,

3. How this foundation is laid,

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4. The day defcribed in which the foundation is laid, and from which bleffings take their date,

5. What the bleffings are which commence from this day,

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6. It is proved that faving bleffings do commence from that day, 36 7. The application of the whole fubject, in feveral uses, Ufe (1.) Of information, in four inferences, (2.) Of exhortation, in fix particulars,

(3.) Of examination, both to unbelievers and believers,

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ibid.

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Glad Tidings in Sad Times; or, the City of God, in Times of Trouble and Confufion, watered with the river of Confolation,

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PSALM xlvi 4. There is a river, the ftreams whereof make glad the city of God.

After a brief introduction, clear analization, and fuccinct explication of the words, and a doctrinal propofition raised from them, the following heads of method are propofed, viz.

1. To speak of the city of God,

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2. To fhew what these fad times are, that put the city of God in confufion,

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3. To enquire what grounds of encouragement the city of God hath in thefe fad times,

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4. To deduce fome inferences for the application,
Lfe (1.) Of information, in three particulars,

(2.) Of examination, in feven particulars,
(3.) Of exhortation, to three forts of perfons,.

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ibid.

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