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A

COURSE OF SERMONS

FOR ALL THE

SUNDAYS OF THE YEAR:

FITTED TO THE GREAT NECESSITIES, AND FOR THE SUPPLYING THE WANT OF PREACHING IN MANY PARTS OF THIS NATION.

WITH

TWELVE SERMONS

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D.

CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO KING CHARLES THE FIRST, AND LATE

LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

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CONTENTS

THE FIRST VOLUME.

TITLES OF THE TWENTY-FIVE SERMONS,

OF

THEIR ORDER, NUMBER, AND TEXTS.

SERMON I. II. III.

Of Godly Fear, &c.

DOOMS-DAY BOOK; or, Christ's Advent to Judgment. 1, 16, 34

2 Cor. v. 10.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every

one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he

hath done, whether it be good or bad.

SERMON IV. V. VI.

ADVENT SUNDAY.

The Return of Prayers; or, the Conditions of a prevailing

Prayer

51, 66, 81

The Flesh and the Spirit

John ix. 31.

Now we know that God heareth not sinners; but if any man be a

worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.

SERMON VII. VIII. IX.

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Heb. xii. part of the 28th and 29th verses.

Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God with reverence and

godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.

SERMON X. XI.

98, 112, 126

Matth. xxvi. 41; latter part.

139, 155

SERMON XII. XIII. XIV.

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Of Lukewarmness and Zeal; or, Spiritual Fervour 171, 185, 202

Jerem. xlviii. 10; first part.

Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully.

SERMON XV. XVI.

The House of Feasting; or, the Epicure's Measures . .

1 Cor. xv. 32; last part.

Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

SERMON XVII. XVIII.

The Marriage-Ring; or, the Mysteriousness and Duties

of Marriage

SERMON XIX. XX. XXI.

Apples of Sodom; or, the Fruits of Sin

Ephes. v. 32, 33.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even

as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

217, 231

SERMON XXII. XXIII. XXIV. XXV.

The good and evil Tongue.-Of Slander and Flattery.—
The Duties of the Tongue

248, 263

Rom. vi. 21.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?

For the end of those things is death.

279, 296, 311

326, 340, 355, 370

Ephes. iv. 29.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that

which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace

unto the hearers.

Rom. viii. 9, 10.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit

of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of

Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead,

because of sin; but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness.

The Deceitfulness of the Heart

SERMON III. IV.

The descending and entailed Curse cut off

Exod. xx. 5, 6.

I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the

fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of

them that hate me: and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that

love me, and keep my commandments.

432, 447

SERMON V. VI.

The Invalidity of a late or Death-bed Repentance

Jerem. xiii. 16.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and be-

fore your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look

for light (or, lest while ye look for light,) he shall turn it into the

shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

SERMON VII. VIII.

462, 478

495, 509

Jerem. xvii. 9.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who

can know it?