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SERMON IIL-THE VICTORY OF FAITH.

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SERMON XXIII-SUPERIORITY OF MEN TO ANIMALS.

BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE, OR AS THE MULE, WHICH HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING.-PSALM, Page

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SERMON XXXII-MORAL POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD.

IS NOT MY WORD LIKE AS A FIRE? SAITH THE LORD; AND LIKE & HAMMER THAT BREAK-
ETA THE ROCK IN PIECES ?—JEREMIAH, XXIII. 29....................... .......................................

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SERMON I.

SAINTS SET APART FOR GOD.

"BUT know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself."— Psalm iv. 3.

Good men are deeply impressed with a sense of the wide distinction between saints and sinners. They look upon it as the greatest of all distinctions among men. And though the sacred writers mention worldly distinctions, yet they say much more about that essential distinction which God makes between the godly and ungodly. If you should read all the books in the world, you would not find this distinction so clearly and constantly mentioned, and so emphatically marked, by any uninspired writers. Nor do we find, in reading all the sacred books from Genesis to Job, so much said about this distinction, as in this book of Psalms. Here we find one continued contrast between the spirit and character of saints and sinners. David begins his book of devotion, with a description of the godly and the ungodly, and of their diverse views, feelings, and conduct through life, and of their final separation at the day of decision; and he never loses sight of these two characters through the whole of his writings. This indicates, that the distinction is very important and interesting. But he does not leave us to draw this conclusion merely from his mode of writing, but expressly calls upon us to attend to this essential distinction, which God has been pleased to make among the fallen race of Adam. "But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself." This is not a mere declaration; but a command-know that the Lord hath made this distinction, however unwilling you may be to know and believe it. The plain and obvious meaning of the text may be comprised in this general observation :

It is important to be known, that God has set apart the godly from the rest of the world, for his own use.

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