Works
He published:
- 'The Eloquence of the Pulpit,' &c., 1752, (ordination sermon; often reprinted with David Fordyce's ' Theodorus').
- 'The Temple of Virtue,' &c., 1757, (by David Fordyce; but this edition has additional matter by James Fordyce).
- 'The Folly … of Unlawful Pleasures,' &c., 1760; 2nd edit. Edinb. 1768.
- 'Sermons to Young Women,' 1765, 2 vols., often reprinted.
- 'The Character and Conduct of the Female Sex,' 1776.
- 'Addresses to Young Men,' 1777, 2 vols.
- 'Addresses to the Deity,' 1785.
- 'Poems,' 1786.
- 'A Discourse on Pain,' 1791, (Chalmers refers to a certain 'cure for the cramp' here given, and connects it with a passage from Beaumont and Fletcher).
Also a sermon on popery (1754), reprinted 1779; ordination sermon and charge (1755); sermon on Eccles. xi. 1 (1757); funeral sermon for Samuel Lawrence (1760); sermon on Prov. viii. 6, 7 (1775); charge at ordination of James Lindsay (1783). His book Sermons for Young Women was also published in an American edition (First Boston Edition) in 1796, by Thomas Hill, printers.
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