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Edward Payson

1783–1827 · Congregationalist · Portland, Maine, United States

Edward Payson was pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Portland, Maine, from 1807 until his death. His preaching drew hearers from well beyond his own congregation and was published in three volumes by Asa Cummings shortly after he died. He was widely read in nineteenth-century America as a model of devotional seriousness.

97 sermons

  1. The oracles of God
    No. 1
  2. God's ways above men's
    Isaiah 55:8 · No. 2
  3. The gospel, glad tidings
  4. All things created for Christ
  5. The divinity of Christ
    John 20:28 · No. 3
  6. The old way which wicked men have trodden
    Job 22:15 · No. 4
  7. Titles of Christ
    Isaiah 9:6 · No. 4
  8. Sins estimated by the light of heaven
    No. 5
  9. Christ's joy in the church before his incarnation
    No. 5
  10. Men tried and found defective
    Daniel 5:27 · No. 6
  11. Christ's priestly office
  12. Our sins infinite in number and enormity
    Job 22:5 · No. 7
  13. Christ a man of sorrows
    No. 7
  14. The wicked, from pride, refuse to seek God
  15. Christ a king
  16. Recollections of God painful to the wicked
    Psalms 77:3 · No. 9
  17. Christ's ascension
    Acts 1:9–11 · No. 9
  18. Sinners wilful and perverse
    Luke 7:31–35 · No. 10
  19. Christ's victory over Satan
    Luke 11:21 · No. 10
  20. Amiable instincts not holiness
    No. 11
  21. Christ's love for the church
  22. The promised fruit of Christ's sufferings
    No. 12
  23. Christ, the Saviour of the lost
    Luke 19:10 · No. 12
  24. Messiah's victory predicted and desired
    Psalms 14:3 · No. 13
  25. Christ, God's best gift to man
  26. Sinners entreated to hear God's voice
    No. 14
  27. Man's treatment of Christ
    No. 14
  28. The difficulty of escaping the damnation of hell
    Matthew 23:33 · No. 15
  29. An assembly convoked against sinners
    Nehemiah 5:7 · No. 15
  30. The dead in sin made alive
  31. Why the wicked are spared for a season
    Genesis 15:16 · No. 16
  32. The universal law of forgiveness
    Luke 17:3 · No. 17
  33. Lovers of pleasure described and warned
    2 Timothy 3:4 · No. 17
  34. Fraud exposed and condemned
    No. 18
  35. The sinner's mistakes exposed and reproved
    Psalms 50:21 · No. 18
  36. The mark of deliverance
    Ezekiel 9:4 · No. 19
  37. The sleeper awakened
    Jonah 1:6 · No. 19
  38. The Christian manner of expressing gratitude
    2 Timothy 1:16 · No. 20
  39. Joy in heaven over repenting sinners
    Luke 15:10 · No. 20
  40. The timely presence and salutation of Jesus
    Luke 24:36 · No. 21
  41. The oppressed soul seeking divine interposition
    Isaiah 38:14 · No. 21
  42. A festival kept to the Lord
    Leviticus 23:39 · No. 22
  43. Fellowship with the Father and with the Son
    1 John 1:3 · No. 22
  44. The second coming of Christ
    Revelation 1:7 · No. 23
  45. The blameless pair
    Luke 1:6 · No. 23
  46. Equality of men with angels
    Luke 20:36 · No. 24
  47. Children to be educated for God
    No. 24
  48. The punishment of the wicked dreadful and interminable
    Mark 9:44 · No. 25
  49. How little children are prevented from coming to Christ
    Mark 10:14 · No. 25
  50. Jehovah, a king
    Malachi 1:14 · No. 26
  51. The children of the covenant, the Saviour's first care
    No. 26
  52. Prayer for the advancement of Christ's kingdom
    Matthew 6:10 · No. 27
  53. Duty of the present to the coming generation
    Psalms 145:4 · No. 27
  54. The fulness of God dwelling in Christ
    No. 28
  55. Anguish of parents at the perverseness of children
    2 Samuel 18:33 · No. 28
  56. Christ and his harbinger compared and distinguished
    No. 29
  57. The guilt and consequences of parental unfaithfulness
    No. 29
  58. Man in his original and in his lapsed state
  59. The iniquity of the fathers visited upon their children
    Exodus 34:7 · No. 30
  60. Knowledge of one's sins, a difficult acquisition
    Psalms 19:12 · No. 31
  61. An early interest in God's mercy essential to a happy life
    Psalms 90:14 · No. 31
  62. Sinners in Zion described and doomed
    Amos 6:1 · No. 32
  63. Sin avoided by considerations of God
    Genesis 39:9 · No. 32
  64. A class of sinners excluded from mercy
    Isaiah 27:11 · No. 33
  65. Solomon's choice
    No. 33
  66. Punishment of the impenitent inevitable and justifiable
    Jeremiah 22:24 · No. 34
  67. Character affected by intercourse
    No. 34
  68. The guilt of indifference to divine threatenings
  69. Character of Daniel
    Daniel 10:11 · No. 35
  70. The sin, danger, and unreasonableness of despair
    No. 36
  71. Our obligations to God and men
    Mark 12:17 · No. 36
  72. The stubborn sinner submitting to God
    Jeremiah 31:18 · No. 37
  73. Participation in other men's sins
    1 Timothy 5:22 · No. 37
  74. Christ rejects none who come unto him
    John 6:37 · No. 38
  75. Prayer for rulers
    1 Timothy 2:1 · No. 38
  76. God heard in the still small voice
    1 Kings 19:12 · No. 39
  77. Love to Christ indispensable
    John 21:15 · No. 39
  78. The day of small things not to be despised
    Zechariah 4:10 · No. 40
  79. The characters whom Christ loves
    Proverbs 8:17 · No. 40
  80. God's special presence distinguishes his own people
    Exodus 33:15 · No. 41
  81. The safety of religion
    Proverbs 10:9 · No. 41
  82. How to prolong the gracious visits of Christ
    Luke 4:42 · No. 42
  83. A dissuasive from ambition
    Jeremiah 45:5 · No. 42
  84. The churches increased
    Acts 9:31 · No. 43
  85. Christ's mission and return
    John 16:28 · No. 43
  86. An unjust imputation repelled by Jehovah
    Jeremiah 2:31 · No. 44
  87. Holiness to the Lord
    No. 44
  88. Demonstration of Christ's love
    John 11:36 · No. 45
  89. The glory which is due to Jehovah
    No. 45
  90. Christ's special tenderness towards penitent disciples
    Mark 16:7 · No. 46
  91. God's praises sung; his works forgotten
    Psalms 106:12 · No. 46
  92. The end of time
    Revelation 10:5 · No. 47
  93. The condition of men without the Bible
  94. The feelings and employments of saints in heaven
    Revelation 4:10 · No. 48
  95. The final judgment
  96. Waiting for death
    No. 49
  97. The Bible above all price
    5 May 1814 · No. 1
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