SERMONS

1025.i.Mj.

ON THE

SPIRITUAL COMFORT AND ASSURANCE

ATTAINABLE BY OBEDIENCE

AND

CONFORMITY TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:

ADAPTED TO MEMORY.

WITH

AN ESSAY

ON THE USE OF MEMORY AS A MEANS OF GRACE.

BY

HENRY ERSKINE HEAD, M.A.

RECTOR OF FENITON, DEVON,

AND CHAPLAIN TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1832.

LONDON:

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

CONTENTS.

ESSAY ON THE USE OF MEMORY AS A MEANS OF GRACE

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SERMON I.

CONVICTION OF SIN NECESSARY TO OUR RECEIVING COMFORT

FROM THE HOLY GHOST.

PSALM li. 1.

Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness, that the bones

which Thou hast broken may rejoice

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SERMON II.

EVANGELICAL PROPHECY APPLICABLE TO THE PARTICULAR CASE

OF EVERY CONVERTED SINNER.

ISAIAH xlii. 16.

I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead

them in paths that they have not known: I will make dark-

ness light before them, and crooked things straight. These

things will I do unto them, and not forsake them

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SERMON III.

ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE HEART AND TONGUE.

LUKE vi. 45.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh....

SERMON IV.

ON THE PRACTICE OF PRAYER.

1 THESS. V. 17.

Pray without ceasing.

SERMON V.

AGAINST IDOLATRY

1 JOHN V. 21.

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Little children, keep yourselves from idols

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SERMON VI.

ON THE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOULS WITH CHRIST BETWEEN

DEATH AND THE GENERAL DAY OF JUDGMENT

JOHN xii. 26.

Where I am there shall also my servant be....

SERMON VII.

OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST

MATT. xxvii. 20.

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have com-

manded you..

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