This folder contains a significant number of sermons by Rev. Silvanus Conant, delivered between 1744 and 1747. They were preached both at his own church in Middleboro and also in neighboring parishes.

Colossians 3:1

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God…"

Psalms 119:2

"Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart…"

Malachi 3:1

"Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts…"

Leviticus 26:23-24

"And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins…"

Ephesians 2:1

"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…"

Habakkuk 2:4

"…but the just shall live by his faith…"

Matthew 27:51

"And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent…"

Canticles 8:7

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be condemned…"

Romans 1:17

"For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith…"

Luke 17:32

"Remember Lot's wife…"

Amos 3:6

"Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?"

Deuteronomy 32:5

"They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation…"

Acts 16:14

"whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul…"

Luke 10:20

"Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven…"

Matthew 22:4

"All things are ready: come unto the marriage…"

Amos 3:6

"Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?"

Canticles 1:12

"While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof…"

Jeremiah 2:13

"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water…"

Ruth 1:16

"And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God…"

James 3:17

"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy…"

James 1:19

"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath..."

Revelations 5:9

"…and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation…"

Canticles 8:7

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be condemned…"