How narrowly my feet escap'd At length to God I cry'd; My drooping head he rais'd; O! may I ne'er forget The mercy of my God; Nor ever want a tongue to spread The triumphs of the Cross. No more, dear Saviour! will I boast Yet, (O how marvellous the sight!) But why from these sad scenes retreat? The indignation of a Gon My flesh is meat indeed, John vi. 53-55, HERE at thy table, Lord! we meet To feed on food divine: The bitter torments he endur'd His body torn with rudest hands And with the blessing he commands, His blood, that from each op'ning vein Hath fill'd this cup with generous wine, Sure there was never love so free, As my view in discoursing of The Divine Authority and Various Use of the Holy Scriptures, is not polemical but practical, you will not expect in the following Sermons a particular investigation of these important subjects:-subjects which have been largely and ably discussed by many excellent writers. All I mean is, to bring the general ideas into a narrow compass, and to place them in a plain and easy light. In the three first Sermons are stated the general grounds on which the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are held to be divine. In the fourth are pointed out the uses to which they are to be applied. In the fifth a general view is taken of the most material objections of unbelievers. This is followed, in the sixth, with other deductions of a practical kind from the facts before stated and proved. And in the two last Sermons is shewn at large the duty which Christians owe to the Holy Scriptures. My aim in discoursing of this subject, and throwing it into the form just described, is to engage the serious and cordial attention of all to this Sacred Book-to impress on their minds the most awful and venerable ideas of the blessed God, with whose finger it was written, and thereby prevent their treating it as a mere human composure to convince them that this is the only infallible test by which every question in religion is to be tried to represent the reasonableness and importance of preserving sacred the right of private judgment to assist the impartial enquirer in his endeavours to come at the true meaning of Scripture-and, above all, to fix on the heart, with the blessing of God, a deep sense of the infinite utility and indispensable importance of entering into the spirit of those divine truths it reveals. Ir these ends should in any degree be attained by these plain Sermons, my heart will rejoice; and I have no doubt but you, my Friends, to whose candour and affection, for a long course of years, I owe so many obligations, will cordially unite with me in praise to Him, on whose influence and grace the success of our mutual endeavours for promoting real religion and saving the immortal souls of men, entirely depends. I am, my dear Friends, Muswell-Hill, May 7th, 1790. With great Affection, Your Servant, in the Gospel of Christ, SAMUEL STENNETT. DISCOURSE I. The Canon of Scripture ascertained. 2 TIM. III. 16, 17.-All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is pro- fitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righ- teousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto The Objections of Unbelievers shewn to be futile and groundless. Other Conclusions from the facts before stated and proved, considered. The duty which Christians owe to the Holy Scriptures. COL. III. 16.-Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom,, 109 DISCOURSE VIII. The duty which Christians owe to the Holy Scriptures. OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES. A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Dr. John Gill. 2 TIM. IV. 7, 8.-I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous- ness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing, A Sermon on the Death of George II. 1 CHRON. XXIX. 27, 28.-Thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusa- lem; and he died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour, |