SERM. VIII. Of the Question, Whether Jefus Chrift were the true and only Meffiah. p. 207 SERM. IX. Of the Methods of Reconciliation committed to the Apoftles: Or, an Inquiry into the Nature of Church-Ordinances, and the Power and Qualifications of Church- SERM. X. The bloody Methods of propagating the Popish Religion a plain Proof, that it is not of Divine Original: Together with a Vindication of our Natural, Evangelical, and Civil Rights of oppofing any Prince, who Shall attempt to introduce it. SERM. XI. Of Self-Love; that it is the Foun- dation of our Love to God, and Love to Man, and even the Caufe of our Generofity. 325 SERM. XII. Of the great Importance of a good The Being and Providence of GOD, and the Certainty of a REWARD for the highteous, demonftrated upon the Principles of natural Reason. IN A SERMON Preached before the UNIVERSITY, A T ST. MARY'S in OXFORD, ΟΝ ACT-SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1739. Διαφέρει δ ̓ ὦ σμικρὸν, ἀμως γέ πως πιθανότητα τινὰ τες λόγες ἡμῶν ἔχειν, ὡς θεόιτ ̓ ἐισὶ καὶ ἀγαθὸν, δίκην τιμῶντες διαφερόντως ἀνθρώπων. PLATO de legibus, 1. 10. " [3] SERMON I PSA L. lviii. II. So that a Man fhall fay, Derilp there is a Keward for the Righteous; verily he is a G D, that judgeth, the Earth * T HE vifible Disorder and Irregularity, that appear in the Diftribution of the good and evil Things belonging to this Life, led fome of the + Philofophers of the Heathen World to doubt whether there were a Gop; and if there was, whether he had the Care and Direction of human Affairs. They thought, that the Cries * The Original is otherwise rendered in the CommonPrayer Tranflation: So that a Man fhall fay, Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous; doubtless there is a GOD that judgeth the Earth. + Sunt enim Philofophi, & fuerunt, qui omnino nullam habere conferent Rerum humanarum Procurationem Deos. TUL. de nat. Deor. Κακῶν δὲ ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἀδίκων τύχαι ἰδίᾳ καὶ δημοσίᾳ, ἀληθείᾳ μὲν ἐκ ἐυδαίμονες, δόξαι δὲ εὐδαιμονιζόμεναι σφόδρα ἀλλ ̓ ἐκ ἐμμελῶς, ἀγωσί σε πρὸς ἀσέβειαν, &ς, PLATO de legibus, 1. 10. of B 2 |
