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 fervant, R. SHEPHERD. ADVERTISEMENT. REFERENCE having been made in the Course of the following Difcourfes to a Paradifiacal State, the Author has annexed to them a Latin Sermon on the Subject; though written on a different Occafion, and preached several Years ago. CONTENT S. SERMON I. Introductory Difcourfe, diftinguishing the Excellency of Christianity from that variable Rule of Duty, in the Pretenfions of moral Fitness held out by the Deift; and the Christianity of the Gofpel, from that Species of it adopted by the Nazarenes and Ebionites, and by Socinus and his Followers revived. PROV. iii. 13, &c. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding: &c. SERMON II. The Existence of God demonftrated: His Omnipotence, in the Superfedure of Nature, vindicated His Immateriality afferted. Ro M. i. 10, &c. For the invifible Things of Him from the Crea- tion of the World are clearly feen, being un- A Divine Super-intendence difplayed in the natural and moral Government of the World: The general Obligation of Religion: the Ground and Neceffity of the Duty of Prayer: |