tisfaction of testifying to the world, how much, and how truly, I have the Honour to be,

My Lord,
Your Lordship’s dutiful,

Most obliged,
And devoted servant,

R. SHEPHERD.

ADVERTISEMENT.

REFERENCE having been made in the Course of the following Discourses to a Paradisiacal State, thc Author has annexed to them a Latin Sermon on the Subject; though written on a different Occasion, and preached several Years ago.

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CIS

SERMON I.

Introductory Discourse, distinguishing the Ex-

cellency of Christianity from that variable

Rule of Duty, in the Pretensions of inoral

Fitness held out by the Deist; and the

Christianity of the Gospel, from that Species

of it adopted by the Nazarenes and Ebionites,

and by Socinus and his Followers revived.

. Prov. ii. 13, &c.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the

man that getteth understanding : &c.

SERMON II.

The Existence of God demonstrated : His

Omnipotence, in the Supersedure of Nature,
.: vindicated : His Immateriality asserted.

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ROM.

Ro m. i. 10, &c.

For the invisible Things of Him from the Crease

tion of the World are clearly seen, being un-

derstood by ibe Things that are made ; even

His eternal Power and Godhead.

SERMON III.

A Divine Super-intendence displayed in the

natural and moral Government of the World:

establishing the Doctrine of a particular, as

well as general, Providence.

Job. xxxi. 4.

Doth He noe see my ways, and count all my

- Steps?

SERMON IV.

The general Obligation of Religion : the

Ground and Necessity of the Duty of Prayer:

the Connection between Religion and the

social Duties.

Ps. xcv. 6.

O come let us worship and bow down ; let us

kneel before the Lord our maker: for He is

onr God, and we are the People of His

Pastnre.

SERMON