THE SERMONS, AND OTHER PRACTICAL WORKS, Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED MR. RALPH ERSKINE, CONSISTING OF Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO. To which is prefixed, An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS, Go, preach the gospel to every creature, MARK XVI. 15. PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR, For the Revd. JOHN STEWART, HUGH MITCHELL, Bookfeller, M.DCC.XCVI. + The Strength of Sin, and how the law is the Strength thereof, opened up and unfolded, I COR. XV. 56. The ftrength of fin is the law. The words being viewed in their connection, analized and explained, there are 22 And from this obfervation, the following general heads of method are profecuted, viz. 1. The nature of fin enquired into, and opened up, 2. The strength of fin unfolded, by viewing the qualities and degrees of its 5. Some inferences deduced for application, The SECOND doctrine is, "That the law of works is the ftrength of fin to the 3. Shew what fin the law is the strength of, 4. How, and in what refpect, the law is the ftrength of fin, 5. Whence it is that the law is the ftrength of fin, 6. Application of the whole, in feveral uses, Ufe (1.) Of caution, in four particulars, (2.) Of information, in feveral inferences, Two difficult cafes folved, relative to hypocrites and believers, (3.) Of examination; containing a fourfold inquiry to know who are de- livered from the law, as it is the ftrength of fin, (4.) Of exhortation; first to unbelievers, who are under the law; and then Ps.cvii.8. Nevertheless be faved them for his name's fake. 1. What is that name of God, for the fake of which he faves, 2. What it is for God to fave for his name's fake, 3. What falvation he works for his name's fake, 4. What is imported in this NEVERTHELESS; God bring about falvation for his name's fake, |