DISCOURSES

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY

JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D.

CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO KING CHARLES THE FIRST,
AND LATE LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

A NEW EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1817.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit

of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of

Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is

dead because of sin; but the spirit is life, because of righteous-

ness.

SERMON III. IV.

The descending and entailed Curse cut off........................ 38. 56

EXOD. XX. part of the 5th verse.

I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the

fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of

them that hate me :

6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and

keep my commandments.

SERMON V. VI.

The Invalidity of a late or Death-bed Repentance... 75. 94.

JER. xiii. 16.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and

before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye

look for light, (or, lest while ye look for light) he shall turn it

into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

SERMON VII. VIII.

The Deceitfulness of the Heart................

JER. Xvii. 9.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;

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SERMON IX. X. XI.

The Faith and Patience of the Saints; or, The Righteous Cause

oppressed....
149. 169. 189

1 PET. iv. 17.

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:

and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that

obey not the Gospel of God?

18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly
and the sinner appear?

SERMON XII. XIII.

The Mercy of the Divine Judgments; or, God's Method in cur-

ing Sinners..........

ROM. ii. 4.

208. 226

Despiseth thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and

long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth

thee to repentance?

SERMON XIV. XV.

Of Growth in Grace, with its proper Instruments and
Signs...........

2 PET. iii. 18.

244. 260

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,

to whom be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

SERMON XVI. XVII.

Of Growth in Sin; or, the several States and Degrees of Sinners,

with the Manner how they are to be treated............... 279. 297

JUDE EPIST. ver. 22, 23.

And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others

save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

SERMON XVIII. XIX.

The Foolish Exchange.......

318. 337

MATT. xvi. 26.

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and

lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for

his soul?

SERMON XX. XXI. XXII.

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The Serpent and the Dove; or, a Discourse of Christian Pru-

.................357. 373. 389

dence................

MATT. X. latter part of 16th verse.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

SERMON XXIII. XXIV.

Of Christian Simplicity..................

MATT. X. latter part of 16th verse.

And harmless as doves.

SERMON XXV. XXVI. XXVII.

..........411. 427.

The Miracles of the Divine Mercy......................... 445. 464. 483.

PSALM lxxxvi. 5.

For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive, and plenteous in

mercy to all them that call

upon thee.