XXVIII sermons preached at Golden Grove being for the summer half-year, beginning on Whit-Sunday, and ending on the xxv Sunday after Trinity, together with A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministeriall / by Jer. Taylor.

Titles of the Sermons, their Order, Num∣ber, and Texts.

• SErmon 1. 2. Of the Spirit of Grace. Folio 1. 12. Rom. 8. ver. 9, 10.

  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. * And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life, because of righteousnesse.

• Sermon 3. 4. The descending and entailed curse cut off. fol. 27. 40. Exodus 20. part of the 5. verse.

  I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fa∣thers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

  6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandements.

• Sermon 5. 6. The invalidity of a late, or death-bed repentance. fol 52. 66. Jerem. 13. 16.

  Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darknesse, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: and while ye look for light, or, (lest while ye look for light) he shall turn it into the shadow of death, and make it grosse darknesse.

• Sermon 7. 8. The deceitfulnesse of the heart. fol. 80. 92. Jerem. 17. 9.

  The heart is deceitfull above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

• Sermon 9. 10. 11. The faith and patience of the Saints: Or the righteous cause oppressed. fol. 104. 119. 133. 1 Pet. 4. 17.

  For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?

  18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungod∣ly and the sinner appear?

• Sermon 12. 13. The mercy of the Divine judgements; or Gods method in curing sinners. fol. 146. 159. Romans 2. 4.

  Despisest thou the riches of his goodnesse, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodnesse of God leadeth thee to re∣pentance?

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• Sermon 14. 15. Of groweth in grace, with its proper instruments and signes. fol. 172. 183 2 Pet. 3. 18.

  But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

• Sermon 16. 17. Of groweth in sin, or the severall states and de∣grees of sinners, with the manner how they are to be treated. fol. 197. 210. Jude Epist. ver. 22, 23.

  And of some have compassion, making a difference: * And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

• Sermon 18. 19. The foolish exchange. fol. 224. 237. Matth. 16. ver. 26.

  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

• Sermon 20 21. 22. The Serpent and the Dove, or a discourse of Christian Prudence. fol. 251. 263. 274. Matth. 10. latter part of ver. 16.

  Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmlesse as doves.

• Sermon 23. 24. Of Christian simplicity. 289. 301. Matth. 10. latter part of ver. 16.

  And harmlesse as doves.

• Sermon 25. 26. 27. The miracles of the Divine Mercy. fol. 313. 327. 340. Psal. 86. 5.

  For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon thee.

• A Funerall Sermon, preached at the Obsequies of the Right Ho∣nourable the Countesse of Carbery. fol. 357. 2 Sam. 14. 14.

  For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground which can∣not be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means that his banished be not expelled from him.

• A Discourse of the Divine Institution, necessity, sacrednesse, and separation of the Office Ministeriall.