SERMONS,

BY

THOMAS LAURIE, D.D.

MINISTER OF NEWBURN.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY WALKER AND GREIG,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;
AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND

BROWN, LONDON.

1811.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

ON THE EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

GENESIS, i. 1.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the

earth.

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Train up a child in the way he should go. And when

he is old he will not depart from it.

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SERMON IV.

ON PROVIDENCE.

Preached at the opening of the Synod of Fife, 11th April

1797.

PSALM, xxii. 28.

The kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor

among the nations.

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SERMON V.

ON THANKSGIVING.

Preached 19th December 1797, on the day of a National

Thanksgiving, appointed by Government on occasion of a

Naval Victory

PSALM, I, 14.

Offer unto God thanksgiving.

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SERMON VI.

ON THE DANGER OF HUMAN DEPRAVITY.

GENESIS, vü. 22.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that

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SERMON VII.

ON MEDITATION.

GENESIS, xxiv. 63.

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eren-

tide.

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SERMON VIII.

ON AFFLICTION.

JOB, v. 6,7.

Although afliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither

doth trouble spring out of the ground; yet man is

born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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SERMON IX.

ON PRAYER.

LUKE, xviii. 10.-13.

Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a

Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee
stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank
thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast
twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift