tisfaction of teftifying to the world, how much, and how truly, I have the Honour to be,

MY LORD,

Your Lordship's dutiful,

Moft obliged,

And devoted fervant,

R. SHEPHER D.

ADVERTISEMENT.

REFERENCE having been made in the

Course of the following Discourses to a Paradifiacal State, the Author has annexed to them a Latin Sermon on the Subject; though written on a different Occasion, and preached feveral Years ago.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

Introductory Difcourfe, diftinguishing the Ex-

cellency 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. ii. 13, &c.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the

man that getteth underflanding: &c.

SERMON II..

The Existence of God demonftrated: His

Omnipotence, in the Superfedure of Nature,

vindicated His Immateriality afferted.

ROM. i. 10, &c.

For the invifible Things of Him from the Crea-

tion of the World are clearly feen, being un-

derfood by ibe Things that are made; even

His eternal Power and Godhead.

SERMON III.

A Divine Super-intendence difplayed in the

natural and moral Government of the World:

eftablishing the Doctrine of a particular, as

well as general, Providence.

JOB. xxxi. 4.

Doth He noe fee my ways, and count all my

Steps?

SERMON IV.

The general Obligation of Religion: the

Ground and Neceffity of the Duty of Prayer:

the Connection between Religion and the

focial Duties.

Ps. xcv. 6.

O come let us worship and bow down; let us

kneel before the Lord our maker: for He is

onr God, and we are the People of His

Paftnre.

TTAM

SERMON