THE

PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS

OF THE

WORLD AND THE CHURCH.

A PRUDENT

MAN FORESEETH

THE EVIL AND HIDETH

HIMSELF; BUT THE SIMPLE PASS ON, AND ARE PUNISHED.

PROVERBS XXII. 3.

THE

PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS

OF THE

WORLD AND THE CHURCH.

BY

A CLERGYMAN OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.

PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE:

AND SOLD BY L. AND G. SEELEY,

FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXVII.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

THE SINS OF THE AGE AND NATION.

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Lukewarmness of professing Christians-Spurious liberality-

Sabbath desecration-Drunkenness-Swearing-Lying-For-

nication-Infidelity-Former unfaithfulness of the churches-

Conduct of Dissenters toward the Establishment-National

Impenitency.

.

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LECTURE II.

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Luxury-Unprincipled conduct of public men-Disobedience to

Parents-Spirit of equality and sedition-Increased attention

to Prophecy-Revival of Popery-Its causes-Act of Emanci-

pation-Liberalism and Ignorance of professing Protestants-

Protestant Emigration, occasioned by political incendiaries and

oppressive Landlords-Corruption of human heart-Character

of Popery, by Dr. Beecher-Danger of the Empire-Scripture

confirmation of the same point.

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