Loving Christ and Fleeing Temptation: Select Sermons of Andrew Gray

These collections of sermons, collected by Gray's young widow, shortly after his death at the age of 22, demonstrate a profound maturity and pastoral care from such a youthful minister. These fifty sermons make doctrine intelligible and practice and speak to the mind and conscience of all of the different levels of Christians that may read this work.

Loving Christ and Fleeing Temptation was first published in 1765 as Select Sermons from handwritten manuscripts obtained by Gray's widow from a friend in northern Scotland. The present edition is freshly typeset and edited from the 1792 edition.

Table of Contents:

1. God’s Love to Sinners Manifested in Bruising His Own Son
2. The Necessity and Excellency of Delighting in God
3. The Sinfulness and Loss of Not Calling on God
4. Christ’s Mournful Visit to Obstinate Sinners
5. The mansions of Glory Prepared for Believers
6. Christ’s Royal Priesthood, Sufficient Encouragement for Faith
7. Christ’s Continual Intercession in Heaven, Efficacious for His Members on Earth
8. Christian Diligence: The Way of Attaining Comfortable Assurance (1)
9. Christian Diligence: The Way of Attaining Comfortable Assurance (2)
10. Christ’s Remarkable Condescension for the Confirmation of His People’s Faith
11. Jesus Christ’s Preciousness to Believers (1)
12. Jesus Christ’s Preciousness to Believers (2 )
13. A Call to Improve the Brevity of Human Life
14. The Christian’s Case and Exercise in the Night of Desertion
15. The Time of Life: A Time of Trouble
16. The Believer’s Love to an Unseen Christ
17. Hope Producing Holiness
18. The Blessedness of Forgiveness
19. The Constant Necessity of Christian Watchfulness
20. The Sinner’s Extremity, God’s Opportunity
21. A Christian’s Exercise under Desertion
22. The Intercourse of Divine Love between Christ and His Church
23. The Appropriating nature of Saving Faith
24. The Sincere Christian, God’s Peculiar favorite
25. Overcoming Believers Crowned with Glory
26. The Great Efficacy of the Grace and Duty of Prayer
27. A Solemn Charge to hearken to the Voice of the Son of God
28. Humility: The Christian’s Best Ornament
29. How to Prevent Spiritual Pride During Special Manifestations (1)
30. How to Prevent Spiritual Pride During Special Manifestations (2)
31. How to Prevent Spiritual Pride During Special Manifestations (3)
32. How to Prevent Spiritual Pride During Special Manifestations (4)
33. How to Prevent Spiritual Pride During Special Manifestations (5)
34. Singular Temptations Call for Fervent and Frequent Supplications (1)
35. Singular Temptations Call for Fervent and Frequent Supplications (2)
36. Singular Temptations Call for Fervent and Frequent Supplications (3)
37. Singular Temptations Call for Fervent and Frequent Supplications (4)
38. The All-Sufficiency and Seasonableness of Divine Grace Manifested in the Return of Prayer: God’s Time and Way of Answering Prayer Always Best, Though Different Than Our Expectations (1)
39. The All-Sufficiency and Seasonableness of Divine Grace Manifested in the Return of Prayer: God’s Time and Way of Answering Prayer Always Best, Though Different Than Our Expectations (2)
40. Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices (1)
41. Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices (2)
42. Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices (3)
43. The Christian in Complete Armor; or, The Devil Resisted and Put to Flight (1)
44. The Christian in Complete Armor; or, The Devil Resisted and Put to Flight (2)
45. The Christian in Complete Armor; or, The Devil Resisted and Put to Flight (3)
46. Strangers Called to Behold Christ (1)
47. Strangers Called to Behold Christ (2)
48. The Necessity and Advantage of Looking unto Jesus
49. The Necessity and Advantage of Looking unto Jesus
50. The Indispensable Duty of Giving the Heart to Christ

A Word of Exhortation before the Communion of Glasgow