CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

SERMON I.

THE CREATION OF MANKIND, AND OF THE FIRST MAN.

GENESIS II. 1.—Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all

the host of them

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SERMON II.

THE FALL AND THE DELUGE.

GENESIS VI. 5, 6, 7.—And God saw that the wickedness of man was

great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of

his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord

that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his

heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have

created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the

creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that

I have made them

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SERMON III.

NOAH AND ABRAHAM.

GENESIS XII. 1, 2, 3.—Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee

out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's

house, unto a land that I will shew thee. And I will make of

thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name

great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that

bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all

families of the earth be blessed

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SERMON IV.

ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.

GENESIS XXII. 7, 8.—And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and

said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said,

Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the

burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide

himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them

together.

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SERMON V.

ESAU AND JACOB.

GENESIS XXVIII. 10–17.—And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and

went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and

tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of

the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay

down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a

ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.

and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord

God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land

whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy

seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread

abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the

south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the

earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee

in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into

this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which

I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep,

and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is

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SERMON VI.

THE DREAMS OF JOSEPH.

GENESIS XLII. 8, 9.--And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew

not him. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed

of them

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SERMON VII.

JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.

GENESIS XLV. 7, 8.-God sent me before you to preserve you a

posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliver-

ance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and

he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house,

and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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SERMON VIII.

THE MISSION OF MOSES.

EXODUS V. 22, 23.-And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said,

Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it

that thou hast sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in

thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou de-

livered thy people at all

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SERMON IX.

THE MIRACLES OF MOSES, AND THE HARDENING OF PHARAOH.

EXODUS X. 20.-But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he

would not let the children of Israel go

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SERMON X.

THE PASSOVER.

EXODUS XIV. 13, 14.-And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not,

stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew

to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye

shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for

you, and ye shall hold your peace

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SERMON XI.

THE REBELLION OF KORAH.

NUMBERS XVI. 3.—And they gathered themselves together against

Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much

upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them,

and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves

above the congregation of the Lord?. .

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE First Edition of this book was published under the following title: "The Old Testament: Nineteen Sermons on the First Lessons, for the Sundays from Septuagesima Sunday to the Third Sunday after Trinity. Preached at the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn." The following note then appeared at the end of the Preface:

"There is no Sermon in this Volume on the fifth Sunday after Easter, as I was absent on that day from Lincoln's Inn. I had thought of introducing a Sermon which I preached at Oxford, on the 9th of Deuteronomy: but I determined on the whole that a discourse addressed to a different congregation would confuse the course rather than complete it. Happily the Church has selected so many chapters from the book of Deuteronomy, that the omission of two is of less consequence. The Sermon on Whit-Sunday is taken from one of the lessons for Whit-Tuesday. There are none on Trinity Sunday, as the lessons for that day are taken from the book of Genesis, on which I had preached already."