BY

HUGH BLAIR, D.D. F.R.S. Ed.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH,

AND

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR,

BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D.

A NEW EDITION,

IN FIVE, VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND;

AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

1807.
20,36

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

A Short Account of the LIFE and CHARACTER of

Dr. HUGH Blair.

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SERMON I.

On the Union of Piety and Morality.

ACTS, x. 4. Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for

a memorial before God.

SERMON II.

On the Influence of Religion upon Adversity.

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PSALM XXVII. 5. In the time of trouble, he shall hide me

in his pavilion; in the secret of his tabernacle shall he

hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

SERMON III.

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On the Influence of Religion upon Prosperity.

PSALM i. 3. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers

of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;

his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doth

shall prosper.

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SERMON IV.

On our Imperfect Knowledge of a Future State.

I CORINTH. xiii. 12. For now we see through a glass,

darkly.

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SERMON V.

On the Death of Christ.

[Preached at the Celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord's

Supper.]

JOHN, xvii. 1. Jesus lift up his eyes to Heaven, and

said, Father! the hour is come.

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SERMON VI

On Gentleness.

JAMES, iii. 17. The wisdom that is from above, is-

gentle-

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SERMON VII.

On the Disorders of the Passions.

ESTHER, V, 13. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so

long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's

gate.

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SERMON VIII.

On our Ignorance of Good and Evil in this Life.

ECCLESIASTES, vi. 12.

Who knoweth what is good for

man in this life, all the days of his vain life, which

he spendeth as a shadow?

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