THE

W O R K S

OF

NATHANAEL EMMONS, D. D.

LATE

PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN FRANKLIN, MASS.

WITH

A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE.

EDITED BY JACOB IDE, D. D.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CROCKER & BREWSTER,

NO. 47 WASHINGTON STREET.

1842.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY

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1913

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Two,

BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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VOLUME II.

SOCIAL AND CIVIL DUTIES.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

SERMON I. - ORIGIN OF MAN.

AND HATH MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS OF MEN, FOR TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF

THE EARTH, AND HATH DETERMINED THE TIME BEFORE APPOINTED, AND THE BOUNDS

OF THEIR HABITATION. - ACTS, XVII. 26.

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SERMON II. — DIGNITY OF MAN.

SHOW TUYSELF A MAN. - 1 KINGS, 11. 2. .

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SERMON III.- EVIL EFFECTS OF SIN.

BUT SIS IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE. — PROVERBS, xiv. 34.

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SERMON IV. - EXAMPLE.

BUT TO MAKE OURSELVES AN ENSAMPLE UNTO YOU TO FOLLOW us. - 2 Thess. II. 9. . . . 59

SERMON V.-SINFUL CUSTOMS.

THE LORD PARDON THY SERVANT IN THIS THING. - 2 KINGS, v. 18.

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SERMON VI. - NATIONAL PROSPERITY.

AND JUDAH AND ISRAEL DWELT SAFELY, EVERY MAN UNDER HIS VINE, AND UNDER HIS

FIG-TREE, FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA, ALL THE DAYS OF SOLOMON. -1 KINGS,

IV. 25.

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SERMON VII. — PRAYER FOR THE DEFEAT OF THOSE WHO

ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT GOOD GOVERNMENT.

AND DAVID SAID, O LORD, I PRAY THEE, TURN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL INTO FOOL-

ISHNESS. - 2 SAMUEL, xv. 31. .

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SERMON VIII. - DANIEL.

80 THIS DANIEL PROSPERED IN THE REIGN OF DARIUS, AND IN THE REIGN OF CYRUS

THE PERSIAN. - DANIEL, VI. 28..

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