PROTESTANT

EPISCOPAL PULPIT:

A SERIES OF

Original Sermons.

BY CLERGYMEN OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

VOLUME IV.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN MOORE.

PHILADELPHIA, W. STAVELY-BOSTON, C. STIMPSON.-ALBANY, J. HEMPSTEAD, M. D.

BALTIMORE, G. C. GRUNDY.-HALIFAX, N. S., C. H. Belcher.

LONDON (ENGLAND), HENRY WIX.

G. F. Bunce, Printer.

M DCCC XXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

Engraving of the Right Rev. BENJAMIN MOORE, D. D. former Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York.

JANUARY.

Brief Memoir of the Right Rev. BENJAMIN MOORE, former Bishop of the Diocese of New-York, and an extract of Bishop Hobart's Address, at his funeral.

1

SERMON I.

By the Right Rev. BENJAMIN MOORE, D. D.—On the terrors and mercies of God.

2 COR. v. 11.—“ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we per

suade men."

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Lines by Bishop Moore to a lady in affliction.

FEBRUARY.

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SERMON II

By the Rev. PIERRE ALEXIS PROAL, A. M. Rector of St. George's Church, and Professor of French Literature in Union College, Schenectady, New-York.-The Laity, Fellow Labourers with the Ministry. Delivered before the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New-York, October 3d, 1833.

ROMANS XVI. 3.-" My helpers in Christ Jesus."

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MARCH

SERMON III.

By the Rev. T. S. W. Mott, Missionary at Lenoir and parts adja

cent, N. C.-Utility of Persevering Prayer considered

1 Thess. v. 17.-" Pray without ceasing."

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APRIL

SERMON I V.

By the Rev. TheoDORE Edson, Rector of St. Ann's Church, Lowell,

Massachusetts. On the Religious Capabilities of Children,

PROVERBS viii. 17.-_“I Love them that love me, and those that seek

me early shall find me.

By the Right Rev. SAMUEL SEABURY, the former venerated Bishop

of Connecticut.—The Nature of Temptation.

JAMES 1. 13—15.—“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempt

ed of God; for God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man. But, every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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SERMON V I.
By the Rev. PalMER DYER, Missionary at Syracuse, Onondaga coun-

ty, New-York.— Faithful Counsellors hated.
1 Kings xxii. 8.--" There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of

the Lord; but I hate him ; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”

JUNE.

SERMO V VII.
By the Rev. C. E. GADSDEN, D.D. Rector of St. Philip's Church,

Charleston, S. Carolina.--The old Paths of the Church.