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Author / Creator: | Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847. |
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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.