THE

PROTESTANT

EPISCOP A L P U L P IT:

A SERIES OF

ORIGINAL SERMONS.

BY CLERGYMEN OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PHILADELPHIA : WM. STAVELY. BOSTON: STIMPSON & CLAPP.

MDCCC XXX11.

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1 Jonx, v. 21.-"Little Children, keep yourselves from Idols,"

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DEATH PREFERABLE TO LIFE:

BY

THE REVEREND SAMUEL FULLER, JR.,

Editor of the Episcopal Watchman, Hartford, and rector of St. Luke's Church, Glastenbury,

Connecticut.

Job, vii. 16.—"I would not live alway,"

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CHRISTIAN SIMPLICITY:

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK, D.D.,

Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

2 CORINTHIANS, xi. 3.-"I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve,

through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity

that is in CHRIST,"

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JESUS CHRIST THE ONLY SOURCE OF REST AND

HAPPINESS:

BY

THE REVEREND WILLIAM L. JOHNSON,

Rector of Grace Church, Jamaica, L. I.

Jonx, vi. 68.—"Then Simon Peter answered him, LORD, to whom shall we go?

Thou hast the words of eternal life,"

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ON THE OFFICES OF CHRIST:

BY

THE LATE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN HENRY HOBART, D.D.,

JEREMIAH, xxiii

. 6.—"And this is the name whereby he shall be called— The

LORD our Righteousness,"

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REBELLION AGAINST GOD:

BY

THE REVEREND THOMAS W. cort,

Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Isaian, i. 2.-"Hear O heavens ! and give ear 0 earth! for the Lord hath spoken:

I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me,” 51

THE UNBOUNDED BENEVOLENCE OF GOD:

BY

THE REVEREND BENJAMIN B. SMITH, D.D.,

Rector of Christ Church, Lexington, Kentucky.

ROMANs, viii. 32.—"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us

all, how shall he not, with him, also freely give us all things ?"

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POWER AND EFFICACY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:

BY

THE REVEREND BENJAMIN B. SMITH, D.D.,

Rector of Christ Church, Lexington, Kentucky.

EZEKIEL, xi. 19, 20.—"And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit

within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their fiesh, and will give them

an heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances

and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God,"

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OF THE CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE:

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND WM. WHITE, D.D.,

Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Romans, xii. 1.-"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that

ye present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, acceptable unto God, which is

your reasonable service, ".

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THE REVEREND SETU B. PADDOCK,

Rector of Christ Church, Norwich, Connecticut.

PROVERBS, XV. 3.-" The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and

the good,"

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ON THE OFFICE OF DEACONS IN THE CHURCH:

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND NATHANIEL BOWEN, D.D.,

Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina, and rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston.