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"but obey unrighteousness, indignation and "wrath: tribulation and anguish upon every "soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew

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first, and also of the Gentile; but glory "honour and peace to every man who work"eth good, to the Jew first, and also to "the Gentile: for there is no respect of

persons with God. When we see that the Scriptures represent this Divine Being as the center in whom all revelations meet, the great agent on whom all human expectations depend; when we view the scheme carried on under this supreme Lord and King, according to the Scriptures, with an uninterrupted progress from the creation to this hour, and still evidently progressive; exhibiting the church of Christ, and the Jewish nation which rejects that Christ, as rendered equally subvervient to this grand design of Providence; by which "the kingdoms of this world will

finally become the kingdoms of the Lord "and of his Christ:" and the triumph of grace here will prepare for the kingdom of glory hereafter. When we contemplate all this, can we avoid exclaiming with the Apostle, "O the depth of the riches both of the wis"dom

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"dom and knowledge of God; how unsearch"able are his judgments, and his ways past "finding out. For who hath known the mind "of the Lord, or who hath been his coun"sellor, or who hath first given to him, "and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, "and to him are all things, to whom be 'glory for ever.

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Amen."

FINIS.

PUBLISHED BY THE REV. DR. GRAVES,

AN ESSAY

ON THE

CHARACTER

OF THE

APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS,

DESIGNED TO SHEW,

THEY WERE NOT ENTHUSIASTS.

IN ONE VOLUME OCTAVO,

PRINTED FOR WATSON, DUBLIN, AND DILLY, IN THE POULTRY,

LONDON.

ALSO, PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

And to be had of Watson, Dublin,

THE FOLLOWING SINGLE SERMONS,

I. A Sermon preached before the Association for discountenancing Vice, &c. 1794.

II. A Sermon in aid of the Charitable Society for the Relief of poor and indigent Room-keepers,

1796.

III. A Sermon on the deliverance of Ireland from the Invasion attempted by the French, in December 1796.

IV. A Sermon preached at an Ordination held by Dr. Young, Bishop of Clonfert, 1799.

V. A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Richard Murray, D. D. Provost of Trinity College, Dublin,

1799.

VI. A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. William Cotter, F. T. C. D. 1801.

VII. A Sermon occasioned by the Irish Rebellion in 1803, preached in Trinity College Chapel, 1803.

VIII. A Sermon on the Consecration of the Rev. Dr. Warburton, Lord Bishop of Limerick, 1806.

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