The Lawfulness of Feasting, with the Danger of Abufing it. Preached, before the University of Oxford, Jan. 3. 1714. JOB i. 4, 5. OB's Sons went and feafted in their Houfes, every one his Day, and fent and called for their three Sifters to eat and to drink with them. And it was fo, when the Days of their Feafting were gone about, that Job fent and Sanctified them, and rofe up early in the Morning, and offered Burnt Offerings ac cording to the Number of them all for Job faid, It may be that my Sons have finned and curfed God in their Hearts. Thus did Job continually. SERMON II. Page 1 The Schools of the PROPHETS. -Before the University of Oxford, on Act Sunday, 1720. AMOS vii. 14, 15. Then answered Amos, and faid to Amaziah, I was no Prophet, neither was I a Prophet's Son; but I was an Herdman, and a Gatherer of Sycomore Fruit. And the LORD took me, as I followed the T Flock, and the LORD faid unto me, Go, prophefy unto my People Ifrael. 34 SER The Credibility of Mysteries. Preached before the Lord Mayor, and Judges, at St. Paul's, the first Sunday in Hilary Term, Jan. 27. 1723. 1 TIM. iii. 16. Without Controverfy, great is the Mystery of Godliness: GOD was manifeft in the Flesh, SERMON IV. 86 BEZALEEL and AHOLIAВ: or, Men's Abilities and Skill the Gifts of GOD, and their Profeffions and Trades the Ways of Serving Him. Before the Gentlemen educated at the Merchant Taylors School, Dec. 7. 1737. EXOD. xxxi. 1. The LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2. See, I have called by Name, Bezaleel, the Son of Uri, the Son of Hur, of the Tribe of Judah: 3. And I have filled him with the Spirit of GOD, in Wisdom, and in Understanding, and in Knowledge and in all Manner of Workmanship, 4. To devife cunning Works, to work in Gold, and in Silver and in Brass, 5. And in Cutting of Stones to fet them, and in Carving of Timber, to work in all Man-' ner of Workmanship. 6. And I, bebold I have given with him, Aholiab the Son of Ahifamach, of the Tribe of Dan; and in the Hearts of all that are wife-hearted I have put Wisdom; that they Preached before the Lord Mayor, on the Day of Election, at St. Laurence's, Sept. 29. 1737. Take ye wife Men, and understanding, and St. JOHN's Teft of knowing Christ, and be- -Againft the Methodists, in St. Paul's Cathedral,O.14.1739. of of GOD, they fent unto them Peter and Who when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy "(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: Only they were baptized in the Name of the A Sower went out to fow his Seed; and as be fowed, fome fell by the Way-fide, and it was trodden down, and the Fowls of the And fome fell upon a Rock, and as foon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because And fome fell among Thorns, and the Thorns Sprang up with it and choked it. |