TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PART I. SERMONS ON DEATH, A RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, A FUTURE JUDGMENT, AND AN ETERNAL WORLD TO COME. SERMON I. On the death of a beloved pupil, preached September 1, 1754, with copies of verses to his memory, by sundry of his fellow students*. II. At the Funeral of the Rev. Robert Jenney, L. L. D. rector of Christ-Church, and St. Peters; preached January 10th, 1758. III. At the funeral of David Griffith, D. D. Bishop-elect, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of Virginia; delivered in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, on Monday, August 8th, 1789. IV. Death conquering and conquered; the first of the SerImons from 1 Thess. Chap. IV. v. 13—18, inclusive; preached the first Sunday in December of 1793, being the first of eight Sermons on the great visitation, by the epidemical sickness, commonly called the YellowFever. V. Preached December 8th, 1793, on the same subject and text. VI. Preached December 12th, 1793, on Psalm lxviii. v. 34, &c. being the day set apart for a general thanksgiving, for our deliverance from the rage of the grievous calamity, commonly called the Yellow-Fever. 1 22 38 53 65 76 *N. B. All the Sermons, mentioned in this table of contents, were originally preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, except those which are particularly specified to have been preached elsewhere. VII. 105 VIII. 118 IX. X. A continuation of the Sermons, from 1 Thess. 140 153 178 XI. XII. Funeral Sermon on the death of Dr. Thomas Græme. 195 XIII. Funeral Sermon on the death of Col. Joseph Nichol son. 210 PART II. I. An Oration in memory of General Montgomery, and of the officers and soldiers, who fell with him, December 31, 1775, before Quebec; delivered, February 19, 1775, in the great Calvinist-Church, Philadelphia, by the appointment, and at the desire, of the honourable Continental Congress. II. An Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. delivered, March 1, 1791, in the great Lutheran Church Philadelphia; before, and by appointment of, the American Philosophical Society; the president and congress of the United States, and sundry other public bodies, also attending by invitation; with an appendix, containing some of Dr. Franklin's writings, not before published. III. The Hermit, in eight numbers; first published at Philadelphia, in the American Magazine; from October 1757 to October 1758, both inclusive. 1 42 95 IV. A philosophical meditation, and religious Address to the Supreme Being. 153 V. A General Idea of the College of Mirania, with an account of the College and Academy of Philadelphia; first published in 1753. 165 ON DEATH, A RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, A FUTURE JUDGMENT, AND AN ETERNAL WORLD TO COME. THE following verses, having been originally printed with the first of the following Sermons, ought not now to be separated from it. When the goodnatured reader is acquainted that they are a collection of the tears of a few young gentlemen, who were fellow students of the deceased, the author knows that he may depend on that candour in favour of them, which he can only hope for, in favour of himself. The truly promising youth, who is the subject of them, died at Philadelphia, August 28th, 1754, being a student in the senior Philosophy Class of the College there. He was the second son of the Hon. JOSIAH MARTIN, Esq. of Antigua, and cousin to SAMUEL MARTIN, Esq. member of Parliament for Camelford, Treasurer to the Princess Dowager of Wales, and Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the Sermon was most respectfully and gratefully inscribed. TO THE AUTHOR, ON HEARING HIS SERMON, UPON THE DEATH OF HIS HOPEFUL PUPIL, OUR DEAR FELLOW STUDENT, MR. WILLIAM THOMAS MARTIN. I CALL no aid, no muses to inspire, VOL I. A 2 For when, in all the charms of language drest, My long-lov'd friend should through my numbers shine, For virtues he had many....'Twas confest That native sense and sweetness fill'd his breast. That in your own, you represent my woes; And sweeter than my song, is your harmonious prose! College of Philadelphia, September 5, 1754. F. HOPKINSON. ON THE SAME, BY A FELLOW STUDENT. AND is your MARTIN gone? Is he no more, Yet hark! soft-whispering reason seems to say, College of Philadelphia, September 6, 1754. S. MAGAW. ON THE SAME, BY A FELLOW STUDENT. WHILE for a pupil lost, your sorrow flows, We too, in humble verse, would treat the theme, To steal upon the heart, and cheer the social hour. By strangers seen and lov'd, by strangers mourn'd; Art thou now sunk in death's tremendous gloom, Ah me! how vain all sublunary joy! Woes following woes, our warmest hopes destroy! J. DUCHE. College of Philadelphia, September 7, 1754. ON THE SAME. CHECK, mournful preacher! check thy streaming woe," Pierce not our souls with grief too great to know; He joys above whom we lament below. Snatch'd from our follies here, he wing'd his way, When deep distress came thrilling from thy tongue, |