A sermon preached in the chapel of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich : on Sunday, October 18, 1789 / By Charles Peter Layard.

  • Layard, Charles Peter, 1748-1803.
Date:
[1789?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A sermon preached in the chapel of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich : on Sunday, October 18, 1789 / By Charles Peter Layard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vour to give you an example of this in the facred text I have juft read to you* and I fhall endeavour to conform to the rule I have laid down, by doing this in the cleareft manner, that you may ft reap the greater advantage from the inftrudfion I offer you. Give me your attention then for a ftiort time, and may it pleafe God to grant a bleffing to the word now to be preached unto you. In this text, the Pfalmift thus exprefTes himfelf: c - Thou, Lord, haft made me glad through thy works, and I will re¬ joice in giving praife for the operations of thy hands. “ O Lord, how glorious are thy works : thy thoughts are very deep! An unwife man, doth not con fi- der this, and a fool doth not underftand it A No w I mean to aflert, and to prove alfo, that there is not one thought in this paffage of the Pfalmift, but which ought to be entertained in the mind of every one of you; and indeed muft be, if you re- A 4 • fledf