Prevented by the will of Providence from any longer addressing the same religious society as their pastor, the Editor feels a mournful pleasure in thus partially restoring to them the benefits of his predecessor's labours, and in being permitted to join his own name with one so highly and deservedly revered. F. W. P. GREENWOOD. Feb. 5. 1824. CONTENTS. Heb. xi. 6.-He that cometh to God, must believe that he Phil. iv. 1.-Therefore my brethren, dearly beloved and John, vii. 15, 16.-And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned ? of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of per- sons ; but in every nation, He that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him. 143 SERMON XIV. RULES FOR THE STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES. 2 Peter, iii. 15, 16.--Even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and TION. 1 Cor. X. 12.-Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed 183 lest he fall. . SERMON XVIII. ON ORIGINAL SIN. Eccl. vii. 29.-Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. - 210 SERMON XIX. ON THE UNITY OF GOD. Mark, xii. 29, 32, 34.And Jesus answered him; The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord. And the Scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth; for there is one God; and there is none other but he. And when |