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785-6.

DISCOURSES

ON

SEVERAL SUBJECTS;

BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF SOME SELECT

HOMILIES

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

RENDERED IN A MODERN STYLE,

AND FITTED FOR THE GENERAL USE, AND CHRISTIAN
INSTRUCTION OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

BY

THE REV. SIR ADAM GORDON, BART. M.A.

LATE OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, AND RECTOR
OF HINXWORTH, HERTS.

"Afk thy Father, and he will fhew thee; thy elders, and they will
"tell thee." DEUT. xxxii. 7.

"The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and
"want of experience maketh apt to innovation.”

HOOKER'S POLITY.

Οπερ ῆμεν γενῶμεθα.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, OPPOSITE BURLINGTON-

HOUSE, PICCADILLY.

GREG. NAZ.

1-13-1933

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME THE SECOND.

DISC.

1. UPON the Place and Time of Prayer

II. Second Part of the fame Homily

III. On the Common Prayer and Sacraments

IV. An inftructive Exhortation to fuch as have

been prejudiced against particular Paf-

fages of Holy Scripture, Part the First

V: Second Part of the fame Homily

VI.

An Homily upon Alms-Deeds, and Mer-

cifulness towards the Poor and Needy

VII. Second Part of the fame Homily

VIII. Third Part of the Homily on Charity

IX. An Homily or Sermon concerning the Na-

tivity, or Birth of our Bleffed Lord

and Savior Jefus Chrift