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VOL VIII.

SERM. I. How wicked Men are of the Devil. John viii. 44 former part of the Verfe. Te are of your father the devil, and the lufts of your father ye will do.

II. The difference betwixt living after the Flesh, and after the Spirit.

Rom. viii. 13. For if ye live after the flesh, ye fball die; But if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

III. Of the Sin of Profaneness.

Heb. xii. 16, 17. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold bis birthright: For ye know how that afterward, when he wou'd bave inherited the bleffing, be was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he fought it carefully with

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IV. Against profaning the Name of God. Levit. xix. 12. Ye shall not fwear by my name falfly, neither halt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

V. How wicked men are deceived to their Destruction.

2 Theff. ii. 11, 12. And for this caufe God fhall fend them ftrong delufion, that they Shou'd believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but bad pleasure in unrighteousness.

VI. The

VI. The Defign of the Gofpel is to separate the Good from the Bad.

Matt. iii. 12. Whofe fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner, but be will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

VII. Scripture-Evidence fufficient to make men religious.

Luke xvi. 31. And be faid unto him, If they bear not Mofes and the prophets, neither will they be perfuaded though one rofe from the dead.

VIII. The Scripture a fufficient Rule of
Religion.

2 Tim. iii. 16. All fcripture is given by infpiration of God; and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteoufness.

IX. The Knowledge of Sin is by the Law. Rom. vii. 7. latter part. I had not known luft, except the law bad faid, Thou shalt not covet.

X. Reafon the Judge of religious Actions. I John iii. 20, 21. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God.

XI. Of the Nature of Temptations. Jam. i. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft and enticed.

XII. Of

XII. Of the Nature of Lying.

Ephef. iv. 25. Wherefore putting away lying, Speak every one truth with his neighbour.

XIII. Uprightness a Man's greatest Security. Prov. x. 9. He that walketh uprightly, walketb furely.

XIV. Religion confifts in keeping the Commandments only.

Rev. xxii. 14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life.

XV. Of fuffering upon the account of Religion. Col. i. 24. Who now rejoice in my fufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Chrift in my flesh for his body's fake, which is the church.

XVI. Of the Nature of the Sufferings of Chrift.' 1 Pet. iii. 18. For Chrift alfo bas once fuffered for fins, the juft for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.

XVII. Of the Humiliation and Sufferings of Chrift.

Matt. xvi. 21, 22, 23. From that time forth began Jefus to fhew unto his difciples, how that be must go unto Jerufalem, and fuffer many things of the Elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke bim, saying, Be it far from thee Lord; JANUARY 1731.

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XVIII. The Method of Deliverance through Chrift.

Rom. vii. 24, 25. O wretched man that I am! who fhall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I my felf ferve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of fin.

We fhall give a Lift of the other particular Subjects and Texts the Doctor chofe to preach upon, as foon as the two laft Volumes are pub

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The Prefent State of the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: Or, a particular Account of the feveral Nations of the Hottentots; their Religion, Government, Laws, Cuftoms, Ceremonies, and Opinions; their Art of War, Profeffions, Language, Genius, &c. Together with a short Account of the Dutch Settlement at the Cape. Written Originally in High German, by Peter Kolben,

Kolben, A. M. Done into English from the Original by Mr. Medley. Illuftrated with Copper Plates. Infcrib'd to his Grace the Duke of Montagu. Printed for W.Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's. 1731.

HE knowledge of Mankind by History being, among human accomplishments, one of the most entertaining and most valuable, we don't doubt but the fhort account we are going to give of the prefent ftate of the Cape of good Hope, will be acceptable to the publick.

Mr. Kolben, to whom we are indebted for this curious Work, is a Gentleman ftill living at Nurenburg in Germany, and in great esteem there for his Integrity and Learning.

The original is in great esteem abroad, as the exactest history of the Hottentots the world has yet feen.

However, it is not to be compared to the tranflation, or rather to the abridgment of it; Mr. Medley having taken a particular care to make fuch alterations that it feems a new book; and indeed, as the ingenious tranflator obferves, Mr. Kolben is very tedious in fome relations, and here and there runs out in reflections that are neither very entertaining, nor very much to the purpose. In thofe places Mr. Medley has abridg'd him; yet in fuch a manner as to preferve every thing material to the reader. Mr. Kolben's reafoning is fometimes but indifferent, not to fay very bad, wherefore Mr. Medley retrenched him in that article too, and in feveral places alter'd him. As to the Method, Mr. Medley has more than once forfaken the Original, and brought many things together in the new work,

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