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THE CASE OF BALAAM.

Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness 254

[Preached at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, July 28, 1834.]

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ye followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as

Christ also hath loved us

[Preached at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, July 19, 1835.]

THE CASE OF NAAMAN.

2 KINGS V. 11-14.

But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I

thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call

on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the

place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar,

rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May

I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went

away in a rage. And his servants came near and spake unto

him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do

some great thing, wouldest not thou have done it? How much

rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean? Then

went he down and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, ac-

cording to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came

again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean

[Preached at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, July 17, 1836.]

ON THE GIFTS OF GRACE.

JAMES i. 17-21.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and

cometh down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no

variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of His own will

begat He us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind

of first fruits of His creatures. Wherefore, my beloved bre-

thren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to

wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of

God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of

naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,

which is able to save your souls.

[Preached at East Horsley, May 13, 1838.]

THE PRACTICE OF HOLINESS.

JAMES i. 22-27.

Be
ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your

own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,

he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For

he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway for-

getteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into

the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not

a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be

blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be reli-

gious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart,

this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before

God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows

in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the

[Preached at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, July 15, 1838. Eight

o'clock Service.]

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THE WELFARE OF THE NATION INVOLVED IN THE

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE.

MATTHEW vi. 33.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all

other things shall be added unto you

[Preached before Her Majesty, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's,

July 22, 1838.]

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SERMON I.

ON HUMILITY.

PROVERBS Xv. 33.

"Before honour is humility."

THAT is, before men can attain honour, they must first learn and practise humility. The honour of which Solomon here speaks, is not worldly honour; but that which alone deserves the name, that which our Lord Himself bids us seek after, viz. "the honour which cometh from God only1."

Before we can obtain this, we are taught, not by our text only, but by the whole Bible, that we must be humbled. Thus Solomon speaks in another place, "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and (he repeats) before honour is humility." To the same purpose our Lord Himself speaks, Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased,

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and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted 3;"

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