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Author / Creator:Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847.
Imprint:New York : Robert Carter, 1851.
Description:2 volumes : portrait ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3345223
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. On the paternal character of God
  • The state of the unconverted
  • The goodness and severity of God
  • Salvation scarcely obtained even by the righteous
  • On the Spirit's striving with man
  • On the nature of the sin unto death
  • The Christianity of the Sabbath
  • The advantages of a fixed Sabbath
  • The accommodating spirit of Christian charity to the scruples of the weak
  • On the amusements and companies of the world
  • On Christian conversation
  • On Christian casuistry
  • Of the flesh and the spirit
  • On the knowledge of Christ and him crucified
  • Danger of neglecting the Gospel
  • The relation of the law to the Gospel
  • On faith and repentance
  • The immediate reward of obedience
  • The necessity of a personal meetness for Heaven
  • The connection between singleness of aim and spiritual discernment
  • The second coming of Christ
  • God is love
  • Fear of terror and fear of reverence
  • Immortality brought to light by the Gospel
  • The brevity of human life
  • The faith of the patriarchs
  • On the connection between the incipent duties, and the subsequent experiences of a Christian
  • Connection between faith and peace
  • On the analogies which obtain between the natural and the spiritual husbandry
  • On the universality of the Gospel offer
  • On the respect due to antiquity
  • The effect of man's wrath in the agitation of religious controversies
  • On the death of the Rev. Dr. Andrew Thompson
  • The blessedness of considering the case of the poor
  • On preaching to the common people
  • On the superior blessedness of the giver to that of the receiver
  • On religious establishments
  • On the honour due to all men
  • On the moral influence of fidelity
  • The importance of civil government to society
  • On the consistency between the efficacy of prayer, and the uniformity of nature
  • Heaven a character and not a locality
  • Light in darkness
  • The outward business of the house of God.
  • v. 2. Sermons on the depravity of human nature
  • The necessity of the Spirit to give effect to the preaching of the Gospel
  • The mysterious aspect of the Gospel to the men of world
  • The preparation necessary for understanding the mysteries of the Gospel
  • An estimate of the morality that is without godliness
  • The judgment of men, compared with the judgment of God
  • The necessity of a mediator between God and man
  • The folly of men measuring themselves by themselves
  • Christ the wisdom of God
  • The principles of love to God
  • Gratitude, not a sordid affection
  • The affection of moral esteem towards God
  • The emptiness of natural virtue
  • The natural enmity of the mind against God
  • The power of the Gospel to dissolve the enmity of the human heart against God
  • The evils of false security
  • The union of truth and mercy in the Gospel
  • The purifying influence of the Christian faith
  • Discourses on the application of Christianity to the commercial and ordinary affairs of life
  • On the mercantile virtues which may exist without the influences of Christianity
  • The influence of Christianity in aiding and augmenting the mercantile virtues
  • The power of selfishness in promoting the honesties of mercantile intercourse
  • The guilt of dishonesty not to be estimated by the gain of it
  • On the great Christian law of reciprocity between man and man
  • On the dissipation of large cities
  • On the vitiating influence of the higher upon the lower orders of society
  • On the love of money
  • Sermons preached in St. John's church, Glasgow
  • The constancy of God in his works an argument for the faithfulness of God in his word
  • The expulsive power of a new affection
  • The sure warrant of a believer's hope
  • The restlessness of human ambition
  • The transitory nature of visible things
  • On the universality of spiritual blindness
  • On the new heavens and the new earth
  • The nature of the kingdom of God
  • On the reasonableness of faith
  • On the Christian Sabbath
  • On the Doctrine of Predestination
  • On the nature of the sin against the Holy Ghost
  • On the advantages of Christian knowledge to the lower orders of society
  • On the duty and the means of Christianizing our home population
  • On the distinction between knowledge and consideration
  • Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with modern astronomy
  • A sketch of the modern astronomy
  • The modesty of true science
  • On the extent of the divine condescension
  • On the knowledge of man's moral history in the distant places of creation
  • On the sympathy that is felt for man in the distant places of creation
  • On the context for an ascendency over man, among the higher orders of intelligence
  • On the slender influence of mere taste and sensibilitiy in matters of religion
  • Occasional sermons
  • Preached before the society for relief of the destitute sick
  • Thoughts on universal peace
  • The duty of giving an immediate diligence to the business of the Christian life
  • The influence of Bible societies on the temporal necessities of the poor
  • Preached before the society in Scotland for propagating Christian knowledge
  • Delivered on the day of the funeral of the Princess Charlotte of Wales
  • The doctrine of Christian charity applied to the case of religious differences
  • On cruelty to animals.