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SHORT DISCOURSES,

Adapted to

VILLAGE WORSHIP,

OR THE

DEVOTIONS OF THE FAMILY.

Volume III.

PUBLISHED FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LATE

REV. B. BEDDOME, A. M.

Dunstable:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. W: MORRIS,

Sold also by BURDITT, 60, and BUTTON, 24, Paternoster-Row;
and WILLIAMS & SMITH, Stationer's Court, London.

Price three shillings, sewed.

1809.

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SERMON X.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FAITH AND WORKS.

JAMES ii. 18.

Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works

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Who when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad 118

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In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that

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SERMON XVI.

PEACE WITH GOD.
2 PETER iii. 14.

Be diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace.

SERMON XVII.

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Whose heart the Lord opened, thal she attended unto the things

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We know that all things work together for good to them that love
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On hearing the word.

SERMON I.

2 TIM. ii. 7. Consider what I say.

THE venerable apostle, being now such a one as Paul the aged, addresses himself to Timothy as his own son in the faith, on the important work of the ministry; and in doing this, he calls up his attention, and places the solemn charge full before him. But if that which related to the salvation of others demanded so much serious consideration, surely that which concerns our own salvation can do no less; and if that depends on the belief of the truth, it can no less depend on the attention we pay to truth. The best instruction may be lost upon us for want of it, and we may read and hear in vain. It becomes us therefore diligently to attend to what is spoken, and so to "consider" it as to ponder it in our hearts, and weigh the matter well.

Confining our remarks at present to our hearing the word, we shall first notice-the manner in which we are to consider it-and secondly, the motives which should lead to it.

I. Shew in what manner we are to hear the word.

1. Consider well the inatter or import of what is spoken. Whether it be doctrinal or practical, whe

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