Transcribed from the 1859 William Skeffington edition by David Price. PLAIN SERMONS * * * * * PREACHED AT ARCHBISHOP TENISON’S CHAPEL, REGENT STREET. * * * * * BY JAMES GALLOWAY COWAN, MINISTER. * * * * * * * * * * Published by Request. * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: WILLIAM SKEFFINGTON, 163, PICCADILLY. 1859. CONTENTS. PAGE SERMON I. TAKING THOUGHT FOR TEMPORAL THINGS. _St. Matthew_, vi., 24, 25. 1 . . . Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on . . . SERMON II. RIGHT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST. _St. Matthew_, xxii., 42. 14 What think ye of Christ? SERMON III. THE CHURCHMAN’S THOUGHTS ABOUT DISSENTERS. _St. Luke_, xvii., 16. 27 And he was a Samaritan SERMON IV. ETERNAL ABODE WITH GOD.—A FUNERAL SERMON. 1 _Thessalonians_, iv, 17. 40 So shall we ever be with the Lord SERMON V. MAN’S KNOWLEDGE LIMITED. 1 _Corinthians_, xiii., 9. 53 We know in part SERMON VI. CONFESSION. _Proverbs_, xxviii, 13. 64 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper SERMON VII. FORGIVENESS. _Psalm_ cxxx., 4. 82 There is forgiveness with Thee SERMON VIII. THE PRINCIPLE OF OFFERINGS TO GOD. II. _Samuel_, xxiv., 24. 101 Neither will I offer . . . unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing SERMON IX. SPIRITUAL PROGRESS. _Philippians_, iii., 13, 14. 115