Introduction

A Series of Lay Sermons

Sermon I. Good Principles "Why will you bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave?"

Sermon II. Young Women "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. *** In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, the rings, and the nose-jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins, the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails."

Sermon III. Good Breeding "A Wholesome tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit."

Sermon IV. Soldiers "From whence come wars and fighting among you? Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye harm one to another?"

Sermon V. To Young Men "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."

Sermon VI. Reason and Instinct "I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless."

Sermon VII. To Parents "Train up a child in the way he should go."

Sermon VIII. Virtue the Only Source of Happiness "Happy is that people whose God is the Lord."

Sermon IX. Marriage "It is better to marry than to burn."

Sermon X. Reviewers "O that mine enemy had written a book!"

Sermon XI. Deistical Reformers "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God."

Note on the Text (Douglas S. Mack)

Notes