Ten Sermons, Title page – Preface
TEN SERMONS PREACHED ON VARIOUS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.
BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD, A. B.
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CONTENTS.
SERMON I. The Lord our Righteouſneſs. Jer. xxiii. 6. The Lord our Righteouſneſs. 11
SERMON II. The Seed of the Woman, and Seed of the Serpent. Gen. iii. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy ſeed and her ſeed; it ſhall bruiſe thy head, and thou ſhalt bruiſe his heel. 37
SERMON III. Perſecution every Chriſtian's Lot. 2 Tim. iii. 12. Yea, and all that will live godly in Chriſt Jeſus, ſhall ſuffer perſecution. 61
SERMON IV. Abraham's offering up his Son Iſaac. Gen. xxii. 12. And he ſaid, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou▪ feareſt God, ſeeing thou haſt not withheld thy ſon, thine only ſon from me. 81
SERMON V. Saul's Converſion. Acts ix. 22. But Saul increaſed the more in ſtrength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damaſcus, proving that this is very Chriſt. 100
SERMON VI. Chriſt, the Believer's Wiſdom, Righteouſneſs, Sanctification, and Redemption. 1 Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chriſt Jeſus, who of God is made unto us, wiſdom, righteouſneſs, ſanctification, and redemption. 124
SERMON VII. The Phariſee and Publican. Luke xviii. 14. I tell you, this man went down to his houſe juſtified▪ rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himſelf, ſhall be abaſed; and he that humbleth himſelf ſhall be exalted. 145
SERMON VIII. The Holy Spirit convincing the World of Sin, of Righteouſneſs, and of Judgment. John xvi. 8. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of ſin, and of righteouſneſs, and of judgment. 163
SERMON IX. The Converſion of Zaccheus. Luke xix. 9. 10. And Jeſus ſaid unto him, this day is ſalvation come to this houſe; foraſmuch as he alſo is the ſon of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to ſeek and to ſave that which was loſt. 184
SERMON X. The Power of Chriſt's Reſurrection. Philip. iii. 10. That I may know him and the power of his reſurrection. 204
THE PREFACE.
THE following Sermons, I think I may ſay, were given me by the Lord Jeſus Chriſt; and according to my preſent light, are agreeable to the form of ſound words delivered to us in the lively oracles of God. They contain the ſum and ſubſtance, I will not ſay, word for word, of what was delivered from the pulpit; for, as I had no occaſion in America, Scotland, and England, to preach upon the ſame ſubjects, I was obliged, according to the freedom and aſſiſtance given me from above, to enlarge, or make excurſions, agreeable to the people's circumſtances among whom I was preaching the kingdom of God. I had no leiſure or freedom to commit any of them to writing, but during my laſt voyage from America to England; … do I expect to find leiſure to write down any freſh diſcourſes, till it ſhall pleaſe God that I embark again. May the Spirit of God, who delights out of the mouths of babes and ſucklings to perfect praiſe, bleſs them to every reader, and put it into their hearts to pray for their poor unworthy ſervant in Jeſus Chriſt,
GEORGE WHITEFIELD.