Plain Parochial Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors

And this conclusion corresponds with the experience of mankind in every age: happiness has always been their object; philosophers have laid down rules for its acquirement, and e...

And this principle is plainly and entirely consistent with the sincerest love: our love indeed is powerfully increased by the reflection, that our heavenly Father, of whose attr...

It is quite clear, that the benefits and blessings of our holy religion, that the knowledge of God’s word, the power of His Spirit, and the effects of His ordinances, must ever...

And yet it is undoubtedly our duty to live in the world; to partake, in a certain degree, of its pleasures, as well as of its labours and cares. It is the will and decree of God...

Let us not regard the various calamities that befal us, of whatever nature they may be, as the mere result of human design or contingency; for whether they be occasioned by our...

4. We are next carried forward to another period in the gospel dispensation; a period in which we ourselves are deeply and peculiarly interested; from which we date all the spir...

The prophet, in the opening of the chapter, thus remonstrates with them: “What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel?” (concerning the evils with which...

From this statement, which indeed is but imperfect and feeble in comparison with the magnitude of the evil, against which I am seeking to warn you, my hearers; from this you may...

LET us advert to the occasion on which these words were delivered, to the parable of which they form a part. The case there presented to us by the description of the rich man is...

Proceed we now with the history of Noah’s preservation: “The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth (a hundred and fifty days), and all the high hills, that were under the...

This reflection is also calculated to excite our attention to the duties of this holy season, {89a} prescribed by the Church for our christian improvement; the duties of self-ex...

My brethren, let us suppose, that it should please God, for the heedlessness of this nation, to deprive us of the privilege and blessing of the Bible; and to declare, that the n...

THE author has been repeatedly urged to print a volume of his Parochial Sermons; and perhaps he owes some apology to those friends, whose kind advice, on this head, has been for...

3. The apostle proceeds, in the text, to open and extend his view of evangelical righteousness. It consists not in that partial cultivation of spiritual affections, in that modi...

That the people of old were but partially awake and alive to the great change required to be wrought in them, from sin to righteousness, from the love of evil to the love of goo...

Infatuated sinner! thine own conscience accuses thee; thou believest that there will be a world to come, a world of recompence, and yet thou turnest not to prepare for it; pray,...

But it happened in those days, as it has too frequently happened with the sinful and rebellious ever since, that the people believed not the threatenings denounced against them;...

And how much less reason have we, my brethren, to be satisfied with our past character, with any thing that we have already achieved. Woe to me! (may many of us say,) how large...