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CONTENTS.
SERMONS TO ASSES.
DEDICATION-To Messrs. George Whitfield, John Wesley, William
Romaine, and Martin Madan.
PREFACE.
SERMON I.-Gen. xlix. 14. Issachar is a strong ass, couching
down between two burdens.
11. Same text.
III.-Numbers, xxii. 21—30. And Balaam rose up in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the
princes of Moab.-And the ass said unto Balaam,
Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden
ever since I was thine?
IV. Numbers, xxii. 30. Am not I thine àss, upon which
thou hast ridden ever since I was thine?
V.-ADDITIONAL SERMON.-Gen. xviii. 28. And he said,
If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
SERMONS TO DOCTORS IN DIVINITY.
DEDICATION To Dr. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester.
SERMON I.-Matt. xxiii. 7. And love to be called of men, Rabbi.
II.-Matt. xxiii. 8. But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is
your Master, éven Christ, and all ye are brethren.
III.-The like text.
IV.-The like text.
V.-Matt. xxiii. 8. One is your Master, even Christ, and
all ye are brethren.
VI.-Isaiah, ii. 17-18. And the loftiness of men shall be
bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be
made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in
that day; and the idols he shall utterly abolish.
NEW SERMONS TO ASSES.
DEDICATION-To the Petitioners against the Dissenters' Bill.
SERMON I.-Judges, iii. 22. And the dirt came out.
II.-The like text.
III. The like text.
IV. The like text.
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V.-The like text.
VI. The like text.
VII. The like text.
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LECTURES TO LORDS SPIRITUAL.
DEDICATION-Ad Dominos Spirituales.
LECTURE I.-Matt. xxiii. 4. For they bind heavy burdens, and
grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoul-
ders; but they themselves will not move them with
one of their fingers.
II. The like text.
IV.-I. Tim. iii. 2-3. A Bishop must be blameless, apt to
teach, not greedy of filthy lucre, not covetous, &c.
VI.-A Bishop must be blameless, given to hospitality, apt
to teach, not greedy of filthy lucre, not covetous,
VII.-Numbers, xviii. 24. But the tythes of the children of
Israel, which they offer as an heave-offering unto
the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit;
therefore I have said unto them, Among the children
of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
VIII. Eccles. xii. 14. For God will bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be
good, or whether it be evil.
IX.-II. Kings, xviii. 27. And it came to pass at noon, that
Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is
a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he
is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and
must be awaked.
SERMONS TO MINISTERS OF STATE.
DEDICATION-To Lord North, one of His Majesty's Secretaries of
State.
SERMON I.-Mark, xvi. 15. And he said unto them, Go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
II.—Mark, xvi. 15. Preach the gospel to every creature.—
He that believeth, shall be saved; and he that believ-
eth not, shall be damned.
III.-Mark, xvi. 15. Preach the gospel to every creature.
V.—James, iv. 1. From whence come wars and fightings,
among you? come they not from your lusts?
VI.-The like text.
VII.—Esther, iii. 2. And all the king's servants bowed to
Haman; but Mordecai bowed not, nor did him
reverence.
VIII.-I. Kings, xii. 18. Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram,
who was over the treasury, and all Israel stoned him
with stones, till he died.
IX.-II, Sam. xxiv. 14. And David said, I am in a great
strait: let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for
his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the
hands of men.
X.-II. Chron. iv. 2. And Asa cried unto the Lord his
God, and said, O Lord, it is nothing with thee to
help with many, or with them that have no power:
help us, O Lord our God, for we rest in thee, and in
thy name go against this multitude. So the Lord
smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah,
and the Ethiopians fled.
SERMONS
то
ASSES.
A Nation of Slaves is a Kingdom of Asses."-SERMON I.
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